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With A Simple Park Gate And A Little Greenery Creates A Work Of Painter And Poet.Pierre IMBOURG

Mr. B. His Demanding Research Allows Him To Transmute Things Without Attempting To Achieve Them. Their Shapes. The Emotion That Gave Rise To The Work Is Directly Transmitted.R. L. PILLET EXPO MURS DE LUMIEREMB Dazzled Painter, Takes Us With Him Into This Area Where Everything Is Prayer, Stone And Light. Péguy Is With Him. It’s Very Beautiful.Jean Chabanon

EXPO CARMINE The Works Of Maurice Buffet Are A Transition Between Reality And Our Intelligence. They Serve To Help Us Understand Better Understand The Other Side Of The Washed Decor Of All Makeup. It Is Surrealism That Is Clear, Intelligible, Human, The Kind That Must Follow The Surrealism Of 1920; It Also Excludes Smoke And Mirrors. Its Basis: It Is Sincerity. GABRIEL PARIS, Literary And Artistic Review - 04/15/1946 It Is Still Our Land And It Is No Longer Everything à Makes Our Land.

Jean Henri MICHEL ROR EXPO WOLMAR Painter Of Lost Paradises, And Perhaps Also Of Paradises Found, It Is With The Help Of A Soft Palette, With Harmonious Tones, In A Light But Nourishing Material, That He Offers Us So Many Very Beautiful Paintings Which Are Like A Series Of Tales And Legends. “ And The Statue Embraces Me And No One Sees Us…Maurice Buffet Saw It. The Strange Is Its Element, But It Is Always Linked To Itself. Realities As Palpable As Water, Stone, Trees And The Sky.He Recomposes the Alchemy Of The Dream.Bernard GAUTHERON « The Painter »That Maurice Buffet Draws His Vision From The Park « Lonely And Frozen » Of Ile De France, In A Suburban Street, In The Beaches Deserted By Low Tide As If To Better Multiply The Magic Of Light, In The Stained Glass Windows Of Chartres Or The Sicilian Hills Or Provençal, Bristling With The Dark Flames Of The Cypress Trees, A Whole Enchantment Is Born Under His Brush. A Renewed Decor Constantly, Whereù An Invisible Orchestra Accompanies With Mozart Or Rameau The Ballet That The Divine Statues Dance On Infinite Marble Staircases, Or On The Jetties Where , Always, The Desire Of Man Aspires To See Shoulder To Shoulder Him The Belles In Search Of Eternal Cythera.Guy DORNAND, Painters Of Our Time What He Wants To Express, Without Violating Nature, Which Remains The Great Mistress , These Are Moments Of Mystery During Which We Believe That Something Is About To Happen, That A Corner Of The Veil Is Going To Lift. His Painting Has A Touch Of The Unreal, Somewhat Strange Resonances which Often Cause Him To Be Exhibited With The Surrealists, Although He Denies Adding To That. Nature The Slightest Element Of Nightmare Or Dream...Roger Louis PILLET, 1957 WALLS OF LIGHT Ballets Of Light Exalted By Anonymous Image Makers Of Yesteryear, Flamboyant Features, Bursts Of Rainbow, Lances Of Fire That Streak Through Space.Roger Louis PILLET, Echo Republican This Exceptional Research By A Figurative Painter Leads To Pure Paint. It Is A Unique, Exhilarating And Powerful Work That Commands Admiration.Jean AUBERT, Central Republic

OTHER THEMES ": AUBERGE DE LA TETE NOIRE (General Council Prize 1959) Bellevue: Damaged During The War; During The Belle Epoque It Was Frequented By Celebrities, Toulouse Lautrec Among Others Came To Stay There. Seduced By So-called Emotion Painting. The Prize Of 300,000 F Awarded à Maurice Buffet Is Proof Of This. Against A Cloudless Sky A White House Appears Behind Trees Strangely Covered With Parasitic Plants Which Make Us Think Of A Forest. Fishermen's Nets Set Dry. Simple Motif But Which Imposes On Us The Vision Of A Fantastic World, Of Dreams, Analogous To That Of The World. That Of The Famous Novel « The Great Meaulne »*Jean Des VIGNES ROUGES,News From Versailles

MAURICE BUFFET Looks Back On A Past Unknown In Order To Engage In Rebirths In A Magical Present Where The Mystery Disputes It Philosophye.Passionate; Of All Ancient Mythologies, His Paintings Are Entitled « The Pythians » Or « The Parks » Or Various Evocations Which He Describes As Paradise Lost. Its Architectures Constitute Settings Which Draw Our Gaze Towards Unknown Elsewhere. He Invents Stairs Which Lead Nowhere, But Which We Would Gladly Climb In The Hope Of Discovering New Stars... Of These « Lost Time » Are Born « Time Found » And Another Present..., The Silence Of Forgotten Things That He Has The Gift Of Resurrecting To Make Us Dream. Distract Us From Our Difficult Times By Drawing From The History Of Civilizations Reasons To Believe In The Future. Certainly, His Works Are Worth Above All For The Quality Of Their Work. Harmonies, The Elegance Of Graphics, The Charm Of Inventions, But The Disappeared Worlds That He Brings To Life In His Paintings Invite Us To Discover Them. Reflect On Vanity Of Certain Contemporary Options.Her Painting Is A Great Lesson In Optimism, She Seems To Want To Make Us Understand That If Times Are Sadly Over, A Better Existence Can One Day Be Offered To Us. Our Desires.Maurice BUFFET Does Not Claim To Present Himself As A Messenger, But It Happens That His Painting Is Much More Than An Art!Jacques SARCELLES

The Landscape Painter, Maurice BUFFET Does Not Describe Sites For Tourist Agencies. It Extracts From The Banal World, The World Of Nowhere, An Open World Where; Wandering Is Optional; Of The Mind. The Still Excursions That He Offers Allow Us To Go A Little Further Than Things: Trees, Houses, Rocks And Grass, Hills And Shores Allow Us To Travel On Foot Through A Poetic Space ;tic And NewJean CHABANON (The Painter) - Maurice BUFFET « A Painting All Of Silence » Oil Seen By A Hundred Painters Struck By The Very « Anticipation Novel » Of The Large Refinery Complexes, Maurice Buffet Expresses The Side Of Fantastic Of Our Time. In His Canvas, Solidly Constructed Which Combines Ranges Of Yellows And Grays, He Affirms His Qualities As A Constructivist Already Present In His Work. Very Noticed, Particularly During The Comparisons Exhibition. His City The Oil Industry Had The Honors On Television.R. L. PILLET, Republican Echo, Musée Galliera