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Biography of Marcel Baugier
Marcel Baugier was born in 1946 in Barjols (Var). He was both a screenprinter and a ceramist. His dispositions for painting were revealed very early. He first considers a career as a moviemaker but finally choses arts. In Paris he trains to be a drawing teacher at the Claude Bernard High School. He graduates in 1967.
During his Parisian studies, the young man visits on a regular basis museums and galleries. At the Louvre, he works specifically on Delacroix, Poussin, Chardin, Rembrandt and primitivists; there he draws lessons from ancient masters but also modern artists improving their technique and probing the spiritual and sensible depths of their art. He gets in touch with painters from the Paris School (Manessier, Bazaine, Esteve, etc) and starts travelling in Europe, specially in Italy where he is used to go since the early seventies. With his art degree (CAPES), he teaches at different high schools in his region : Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Salon-de-Provence then in Barjols, his hometown. Apart from his teaching job, he paints essentially landscapes influenced by Cezanne. He devotes 10 years of hard work and researches to shape his technique and finds his own original pictural approach.
In the early eighties, upon great reflexion on space and color, he turns towards abstraction under the influence of Paul Klee (« Rendre visible l’invisible ») and Matisse. Marcel Baugier gives up oil for acrylic. In 1985, he is the first to settle his workshop - still open as of today - in the former tanneries of Barjols which had closed three years earlier). Over the years, others artists and craftsmen will come to join him.
Marcel Baugier is truly knowledgeable in arts: he likes Picasso for his strength, Matisse for his purity but he also appreciates Alberto Magnelli, Sonia Delaunay, Maurice Estève, Poliakoff and Bram van Velde among many others.
In the 90s, he questions the concepts which used to underline his work (resarch shape-color-surface) and develops new pictural techniques. A more precise approach opens up revealing a burgeoning maturity. The artist works constantly : paintings, watercolors, prints, linocuts and ceramics. Recently he devoted an entire year to screenprints to the point of building himself the material necessary to the conception and the edition.