Jean-Pierre Craninx
Jean-Pierre Craninx
Biography & artistic approach
Jean-Pierre Craninx is an established Belgian painter, emerging internationally.
He mainly practices abstract artistic painting but regularly includes a touch of figurative painting.
He was born on 06/01/1965 in Waremme, near Liège in Belgium.
He still lives there and has set up his workshop there.
In addition to a multitude of stages of development in various techniques, he holds a master’s degree from the Haute Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts Saint Luc de Liège, in plastic, visual and spatial arts.
He was a professor of design and technology in Belgium and France but has devoted himself to artistic painting professionally for about 6 years.
Jean-Pierre Craninx, like Pierre Soulages, one of his mentors, is a fan of black but, unlike the latter who devoted himself exclusively to black after the 70s, he regularly adds his own palette of colours.
His educational background allowed him to understand classic “academic” painting techniques but he appreciates being a 21st century painter with his own scientific advances which allow him to explore hitherto unknown territories. To do this, it uses the most advanced current techniques :
latest generation acrylic paints and mediums, use of pigments based on carbon nanotubes, epoxy lamination resins, laser engraving, etc.
Jean-Pierre Craninx has become close to various artistic movements but, above all, to certain painters from whom he draws his inspiration.
Let us cite for example, in addition to Pierre Soulages already mentioned: Gerhard Richter, Georges Braque, Giancarlo Bargoni, Piet Mondrian, Robert Delaunay, etc.
His paintings, often on the border with sculpture, attempt to synthesize these different influences while regularly maintaining a touch of stylized figurativeness, hidden or not in the abstract composition. Besides the thick, relief painting, this is undoubtedly what makes it unique.
Jean-Pierre Craninx has always been fascinated by questions relating to the origins of the world, humanity, nature and time. Without forgetting the harmony that prevails in the general organization of all these elements. These themes or even these metaphysical questions are highlighted by a previously studied composition or by a simplified figurative touch, so as to signify the origin of life, ordering and time which sometimes seems to emanate from chaos or nothingness. The observer’s questioning about the unexplained can thus arise spontaneously or through the figurative touch that he can sometimes detect in the addition of the abstract and the concrete. It is therefore a range of tools that is used by the artist to highlight the multiple fundamental subjects that challenge us and to which humanity does not always have an answer.
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