Against all odds, painting, this old lady in the history of art who waits alone in front of her easel, has resisted everything.
The revolutions of the avant-garde of the twentieth century as well as the decades of conceptual art which, in the loophole opened up by Marcel Duchamp, imposed the anvil of discourse and the sociology of art, in France more than elsewhere.
“Today, out of the 30 fine arts workshops in Paris, nine are painting workshops.
All are in great demand, from the workshops of Nina Childress to those of Stéphane Calais or Djamel Tatah.
Each receives up to 70 students, when an average workshop turns around 25. That is to say that, out of the 700 fine arts students, between 200 and 300 practice painting, even if it means branching off along the way. towards other mediums, drawing, installations, videos
, estimates Jean de Loisy, the director of the National School of Fine Arts of Paris (ENSBA) whose workshops remain open during the reconfinement, by derogation
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