Thierry Bruet: Master brush

The artist

THIERRY BRUET, born in Paris in 1949, has been a painter and sculptor for over 35 years. His opulent, classically-inspired paintings are witty, satirical and finely observed, and are executed using traditional oil painting techniques. ...

He has exhibited his works under the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture in Metz, at the "Thiers" Museum under the patronage of the Institute of France in Paris, at the Institute of the Arab World in Paris, but also solo exhibitions in Paris, Luxembourg, London, Vancouver, Ibiza, Palm Beach......But also Art Fair Paris 2012 and 2013 and SH Contemporary Shanghai 2014, Luxembourg ARTWEEK 2017 and 2018 ....
ARTactif is pleased to dedicate the portrait of this first Aa Magazine to this leading artist of the site.

His art

Thierry Bruet's pictorial art is based on an impressive technical mastery which allows this gifted self-taught artist to evoke in turn all the great French, Italian and Spanish masters of the 17th century "without inhibition or complex". This formal ease explains why Thierry, when he talks about his painting, essentially evokes the subjects, the way it goes without saying: "To tell a story, to seize a moment, without judging, nor condemning, I incorporate in my figurative canvases, old age, the grotesque, the decay of the being, that of society, it is often a question of the fatuity and vanity of human existence. Humanity is insane and never ceases to fascinate me in its smallest details. The human being and his multiple faces remain my main source of inspiration. ".  
This is why one of his views is towards the caricature, the grotesque, the other towards elegance, the refined. This same duality can be found in the telescoping of eras that Thierry Bruet likes to practice by creating anachronistic encounters between characters and objects brought together across the centuries in the same space of the canvas. The visual shock produced is disturbing. Is this iconoclastic gesture surreal? It seems to go deeper than a simple discrepancy or an improbable dreamlike encounter. It is not the unconscious that takes precedence, but rather consciousness, culture and a love of great works. For there is one thing that holds together all these supposedly disparate elements: painting. It is painting that unifies everything. These surprising, destabilising images, served by an impeccable classical style, make us more aware than ever that we are standing before a canvas. Par excellence. Of a classicism that imposes itself. This is what Thierry Bruet does: he paints pictures that are self-designated as paintings. Because they magnify painting.

His world

Thierry Bruet is also commissioned by the greatest French decorators such as Alberto Pinto, Frédéric Méchiche, Pierre-Yves Rochon ....
His works can be found in many collectors' homes around the world but also in many luxurious and prestigious places: such as the George V, Le Bristol, Shangri-la hotels in PARIS, the Chalet du Mont d'Arbois and the Four Seasons hotel in Megeve, Les Magasins Hermés in Paris, the Four Seasons hotels in Alexandria, Florence and London.......