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Notes of biography

He was first a stone lover. By carefully acting with his hands and his heart, the stone was taking the shape of his thought. André Jaoul was a sculptor born in Nîmes in 1928. Very early, he was attracted by Antiquity civilisations and their art. Gallo-Roman constructions and ruins that he discovers in his home-town fascinated him. The way men were mastering the stone marveled him and very quickly, this type of creation became vital for him.
He was just eleven when he started taking evening classes at the Fine Arts School in Nîmes then he finished off his training at the Fine Arts School of Paris at Niclausse's studios (live models), Saupique's (stone practicing) and Janniot's (monumental art) where he learnt rigor, balance and a sense of composition. He met Cardot, César, Hiquily and many others during his studies.
All along the years, he worked different jobs in Paris (stallholder, theater stage editor, model maker). Once and for all, he came back to Nîmes in 1952. As he could not live off sculpture, he kept on working as a model maker in architecture and started restoring historical monuments. He became a drawing teacher at the Fine Arts School in Nïmes in the early 60's. From 1967 to 1996, André Jaoul was a sculpture professor at The Fine Arts School of Lyon. In 1978, he settled in Lirac. His artistic career was punctuated by collective and personal exhibitions. During this period, he obtained several public contracts mainly from Nîmes.
Among his favorite artists, André Jaoul liked to name sculptors : Cellini, Pradier, Bourdelle, Despiau, Gimond, Zadkine, Letourneur, La Chaise but also Germaine Richier, and paintors such as Rembrant, Poussin, Delacroix, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Marquet, Modigliani, Bonnard, Rouault, Soutine, Fernand Léger, Balthus or Freud.
His main inspiration source, constant, endless was feminine nude : The Woman in her mystery puzzled him. His researchs came from an emotion he transposed by a line, a built and shaped volume. Drawing was for him a major excercise he practiced regularly which allowed him to feed his knowing in human body but also was nurturing his creativity. Complementery but not essential, modeling was just another step to achieve his work. « The cut material has no natural force », he said. « To the closed space of the studio, I prefer the sunlight ».
« Long life to Art, Love... and Stars! » was written on his greeting cards in 1996.
André Jaoul left us in 2000 in Nîmes.

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