Jean-Yves Couliou

Jean-Yves Couliou (18 October 1916 – 1995) was a French painter.

Biography

Couliou was born in Landerneau, Finistère, France, and spent his youth in the neighbourhood of Pont-Aven, the village of his parents. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Rennes, Académies et Écoles Nationales Supérieures des Arts Décoratifs, des Arts Appliqués and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He was encouraged by the painters Brianchon, Dupas, Legueult, Roland Oudot, and Roger Bissière. He died in Lorient.

Style

Beginning in Naïve art, he later developed to a style of poetic realism, with periods of expressionism, Abstract art and lyrical and geometrical abstracticism.

Awards

• First award of New York City
• Award Victor Lesur
• First award of the art lovers of the cities of Colombo and Bordeaux
• Award of honor from the art lovers of Blois and High Award of the city of Blois
• Signature-awards Conté, Lefranc, the galleries Ledoux and Tazartez, Nantes, Rennes, Bourges, Lorient
• First High Award of Blésois, the cities of Niort and Ernée
• Medal of Gold from the city of Bourges

External links

• (German) (English) (French) Official website