Claude Venard was born in
1913 into a business family from Burgogne.
At the age of 17 he began to take evening classes in painting at the
Ecole des Arts Appliqu's. However, after six years of conscientious study, he
was forced, in order to support himself, to spend most of 1936 working as a
restorer at the Louvre Museum. This experience, however, turned out to be
beneficial in as much as it enabled the young artist to fill the gaps still
existing in his artistic education. Upon Venard's release from the army, at the
end of World War II, his life was transformed. With recognition came the chance
to put painting before all else. In 1945, through his continued friendship with
Gruber and Marchand, Venard shared mutual success. He remained faithful to a
post-Cubist compositional style, and progressively accentuated the chromatism
of his pallet up to reaching the crudest of colours, which he used in very
thick forms and sometime applied with a pallet knife.
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Claude Venard was born in
1913 into a business family from Burgogne.
At the age of 17 he began to take evening classes in painting at the
Ecole des Arts Appliqu's. However, after six years of conscientious study, he
was forced, in order to support himself, to spend most of 1936 working as a
restorer at the Louvre Museum. This experience, however, turned out to be
beneficial in as much as it enabled the young artist to fill the gaps still
existing in his artistic education. Upon Venard's release from the army, at the
end of World War II, his life was transformed. With recognition came the chance
to put painting before all else. In 1945, through his continued friendship with
Gruber and Marchand, Venard shared mutual success. He remained faithful to a
post-Cubist compositional style, and progressively accentuated the chromatism
of his pallet up to reaching the crudest of colours, which he used in very
thick forms and sometime applied with a pallet knife.
