Oeuvre de jacques monory biography

Jacques Monory was born on June 25, 1924 in Paris. After training as a painter-decorator at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, he worked for the art publisher Robert Delpire, where he discovered photography. In the 1960s, he became one of the pioneers of the movement of narrative figuration, which is characterized by a return to figuration, in reaction to abstract art, and far from American Pop Art. Passionate about cinema, he also draws on the art of comics and photography to fuel his painting. His work is marked by the omnipresence of the color blue, referring to melancholy or sometimes turning into a nightmare. A painter obsessed with death, she very quickly took center stage in her work. He made himself known through two series of paintings: the Murders (1968) and Velvet Jungle (1969-1971), testifying to his passion for the 7th Art and black universes. Artist with multiple hats, Jacques Monory was also a filmmaker (Ex in 1968, or Brighton Belle in 1974) and wro

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Born in Paris in 1924. In addition to painting, Monory also dedicates himself to performances, art and music. photography, theater and photography. crime literature, in addition to considering himself an enthusiastic and self-confessed cinephile.

Holds his first solo exhibition in 1955, at Galeria Kleber in Paris. From now on, Monory will see His work is exhibited in the most prestigious international galleries and museums. Of particular note is the publication of sju monographs on the work of this artist by renowned authors such as: Bailly, Jouffroy, Tilman, not forgetting the brilliant J.F. Lyotard. Jacques Monory is considered a leading figure in “Narrative Figuration” of the 60s, an aesthetic current heir to Pop Art.

His paintings, films and texts reveal an icy irony about the world, where obsessions alternate with collective myths, making this artist a pertinent witness of our time. It is represented in important public and private collections, as we

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MONORY Jacques

Jacques MONORY (1924)
Original handsigned Screenprint
Handsigned in pencil and numbered on 190
Size of the drawing  : 45 x 65 cm 
Size of the paper : 56 x 76 cm

Jacques Monory

is a French artist born in 1924 in Paris and died in 2018.
After training as a painter and decorator at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, Jacques Monory works for ten years at a publisher where he is in contact with the world of photography that will greatly influence his work as a painter later.
In the mid-1960s, he became one of the founders of narrative figuration. This artistic movement is very inspired by cinema and photography with the idea of ​​representation of the duration, the idea of ​​telling a story with an image. In Jacques Monory the colors are frank, cold, usually in a shades of blue, the representations express a certain violence, a harshness of the situation. Several images can appear on the same board as movie sequences on the same image.

Many of his works are f