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The Painter

Photos By François TASHDJIAN

In parallel to his musical studies, François Tashdjian is also a painter and has had a passion for drawing since childhood. He completed his first two year (1988-1990) visual arts training course in cartoon at the Pablo Picasso centre in Montreuil-Sous-Bois (93). Influenced by the techniques of artists - painters Escher, Miro, Pollock and Klee he discovered watercolour and ink through his wind instrumentalist technique, "blow painting ", which is very little employed in the field of plastic arts. Two or three years later, looking to find another form of expression, François Tashdjian entered the workshops of the Fine Arts school in the city of Paris ("etching" department).

 

This is followed by exhibitions in Paris, where two of his "graphic works" in ink disappear... but the bitterness is soon forgotten when he is selected in the "Hauts de Belleville" contest and is part of the exhibition for "Hopes 94". At the end of this contest, he is "spotted" by Patrick-Gilles Persin, Art Critic and chair of the "Great and Young of Today" show, who would go on to offer him the chance in that same year to exhibit in the 34th anniversary of the show, with more than 500 exhibitors at the Espace Eiffel-Branly. Often requested to do book illustrations or CD covers, the artist remains reserved about the exhibition of his works.

 

Today François Tashdjian has a hundred works to his credit, and when he can he combines "pictorial art" with musical creation...

 

 

 

 

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