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Pascal Lecocq (born 4 June 1958) is a French painter and
His artwork, oil on canvas in the traditional technique of
Since 2016, Australian based World Underwater magazine Ocean Geographic holds the "Ocean Geographic Pictures Of The Year Awards", named in honour of, and judged by some of the most celebrated image-makers of the ocean, including the "Creative Vision – the Dr Pascal Lecocq Award for Outstanding Achievement". Pascal is also a worldwide awards recipient. He is the author of more than 100 magazine articles or lectures about painting, the technique of the old masters, anatomy in art, set design... He contributed to the exhibition ''Homage to Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead'' (2001-2), at the Musée Bossuet of Meaux, France, as a featured painter and as the webmaster of the site dedicated to the '' Isle of the Dead''. Website dedicated to A. Böcklin's ''Isle of the Dead''
Official website
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set designer
Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly train ...
. He is the ''Painter of Blue '' who paints on high backcloths of sky or deep sea, as a stage director, figures, horses, divers, allegories, architectures, Venice, and ancient ruins, between hyperrealism and surrealism with a whimsical sense of humor. He is the author of the diving world renowned picture: ''The Matador''.
Biography
Pascal Lecocq was born in Fontainebleau, France, on 4 June 1958. Pascal attended, while in high school, ''Ecole Comairas'' art school, from the Fondation Taylor, in Fontainebleau, from 1973 to 1977, as a pupil of Yvonne Bouisset Mignon (daughter of the painter Abel Mignon (1861-1936) who studied withJean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...
; spouse of the painter Jacques Bouisset (1888-1977), the son of the famous author of the poster ''Chocolat Meunier '' Firmin Bouisset
Firmin Bouisset (2 September 1859 – 19 March 1925) was a French painter, poster artist and printmaker.
Early life
He was born on 2 September 1859 in the town of Moissac in the Tarn-et-Garonne département in southwestern France. As an artis ...
(1859-1925). His first solo exhibition took place in Fontainebleau in January 1977. He then obtained a PhD degree of Arts at the University of Paris VIII in 1985 under the direction of Prof. Frank Popper
Frank Popper (17 April 1918 – 12 July 2020) was a Czech-born French-British historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII. He was decorated with the medal of the L ...
. Pascal Lecocq moved to Normandy in 1982, and opened his own art gallery in Honfleur
Honfleur () is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. The people that inhabit Honf ...
(1989-2000); after a first exhibition at the DEMA show in Anaheim, CA, in 1998, he has been invited to show his artwork in the United States where he moved in 2003, becoming then a US resident.
Stage design
Pascal Lecocq’s dissertation for the Doctorate was a philosophical study of the interrelation between all the arts, focusing in theset design
Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly trained ...
in opera, making a historical study specific to the ''Wandeldekoration'', spectacular moving scenery of ''Parsifal'', by Richard Wagner, from 1882 to 1982. Then, Pascal Lecocq worked as a director assistant, and set and costume designer in different opera houses in France (from 1985 to 1996: ''Lohengrin, Der Ring, Parsifal, Tosca, Traviata'' …and in 2016 at the Opera de Nice ''The Magic Flute'' directed by Numa Sadoul
Numa Sadoul (born 7 May 1947, Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (now Republic of Congo) is a French writer, actor, and director, who has been a resident of France since 1966.
Biography
Numa Sadoul was born on May 7, 1947, in Brazzavill ...
). He also directed ''Der Freischütz'', by Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas, ...
in Opéra Royal de Wallonie
The Opéra royal de Wallonie is a Belgian Opera house located on the Place de l'Opéra, in Liège, Belgium. Together with La Monnaie and the Vlaamse Opera, the ''Opéra royal'', as it is colloquially known, is one of the three major opera house ...
in Liège, Belgium, in 1991.
Underwater art
While working on ''The Flying Dutchman'', opera by R.Wagner, at the Théâtre d’Angers, France, in 1986, he got the idea for his first painting with divers. In 1993, he painted ''Corrida'', ''The Matador'' while working about the opera ''Carmen'' with his famous bullfighter byBizet
Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, '' Carmen'', which has become o ...
, before being introduced to dive shows and becoming an icon in the world diving industry.His artwork, oil on canvas in the traditional technique of
Van Eyck Van Eyck or Van Eijk () is a Dutch toponymic surname. ''Eijck'', ''Eyck'', ''Eyk'' and ''Eijk'' are all archaic spellings of modern Dutch ("oak") and the surname literally translates as "from/of oak". However, in most cases, the family name refers ...
, Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer ( , , see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately succe ...
, and Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...
, has been displayed in more than 250 solo exhibitions around the world, and featured in many art books about ''Parsifal'', Arnold Böcklin, Marcel Proust or horses, and as front cover and portfolios for more than 20 magazines. The exhibition ''Shark ! '' at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is an art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originating in 1958 as the ''Fort Lauderdale Art Center'', the museum is now located in an modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. The current buildin ...
, Florida (May 2012-January 2013), curated by Richard Ellis(biologist), presented two paintings by Pascal Lecocq, including the ''Matador''.
Pascal Lecocq is a member of the Ocean Artists Society (since 2003), a contributor to many environmental organizations, an active advocate for the sharks, and for the education of arts, making workshops with children.Since 2016, Australian based World Underwater magazine Ocean Geographic holds the "Ocean Geographic Pictures Of The Year Awards", named in honour of, and judged by some of the most celebrated image-makers of the ocean, including the "Creative Vision – the Dr Pascal Lecocq Award for Outstanding Achievement". Pascal is also a worldwide awards recipient. He is the author of more than 100 magazine articles or lectures about painting, the technique of the old masters, anatomy in art, set design... He contributed to the exhibition ''Homage to Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead'' (2001-2), at the Musée Bossuet of Meaux, France, as a featured painter and as the webmaster of the site dedicated to the '' Isle of the Dead''.
References
External links
Official website
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