Les stèles #12 Painting

Johan Houdart is a Belgium painter, born in Mons in 1961. He make his first contact with painting thanks to family paintings of father and grandfather. After his artistic humanities in the class of W. Mathys, he took evening drawing lessons in the class of the painter A.Gobert. He regularly visits the Museum of Fine Arts of Mons and reads everything he can about Painting and the history of Art. Painted extensively and exhibited at group events. In 1981, noticed at the Salon of young Walloon painters at the Museum of Fine Arts in Mons, May have a workshop loaned by the province. From 1982, the date of his first exhibition at the Art mural gallery in Mons, he never stopped painting and regularly exhibiting sandstone encounters with other artists, trips and relocations. The works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Durer, Rubens, Piranese, Le Greco, Bonnard, Balthus, Hartung, Music, Van velde, Renoir, Bazaine, Da Silva, Tapiès, Miro, Friedrich, Hammershoi, Moore, Delvaux, Detry, E. Leroy , Kirkeby constitute, among other things, a large part of its interior museum. He is also interested in philosophy (Plato, Kierkegaard, Alain, Comte-Sponville, Weil, wittgenstein, Sloterdijk), poetry (TS Eliot, Borges, Ségalen, St John Perse, Rilke), Blues (JL Hooker, Muddy Waters, Skip James, R.Johnson, Burnside) classical (Brahms, Schubert, Chopin) and contemporary music (Boulez, Gorecki, Dusapin, Messian, Bério), comics (Pratt, Micheluzzi, Brandoli and Queirolo, Munoz and Sampayo , Mattoti, Taniguchi), literature (Yourcenar, Pessoa, Gide, Peguy, Guignard, Bouvier, Blixen, V.Woolf, soseki A.Ernaux) and cinema (Ozu, Renoir, Tarkovski, Wenders, F.Lang, Satyajit Ray , Mizoguchi, Huston, Bergman, Tati). Over the years, different themes will be explored (Landscapes and Routes, Analogos, portraits of Isa, Tables-duos, berlinades, Nudes, Rounds and Tables garnished or Trophies) and workshop changes: 1983 Workshop in Brussels, rue Saint Quentin. 1985 moves every month from the Belgian coast to the Ardennes and exhibits in each place. 1986 new workshop in Brussels, chaussée de Wavre. He divides his time between 4 places according to the seasons. Spring, summer in Belgium and Brittany; autumn, winters on the French Riviera and in Corsica. 1987 workshop in old Nice. 1989 new Brussels workshop, rue de Nancy. 1996 workshop in Trébeurden, rue du Véades. 1997 small workshop in Perros-Guirec Boulevard Clémenceau. 1999 workshop in Quevaucamps in Belgium.