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Alain Thomas

Alain Thomas (Born 1942) is active/lives in France.  Alain Thomas is known for Folk art style figure in landscape, still life and townscape painting.

Self-taught, Alain Thomas began his career at the age of 20. In 1963, he presented his first exhibition in Nantes. He has illustrated over the course of his career twenty books including several bestiaries, bibliophile books such as Marco Polo (1987) and children's stories such as Snow Spring (1987). Some creations on paper like that of Toucan (2002) and Aras Macao (2004) also decorate the supports of numerous collections on porcelain of Limoges, bristles of Lyon, enamels of Longwy, tapestries of Aubusson, illuminations, etc.

He begins by painting sad and rigid characters with fairly undifferentiated faces in the image of the Saltimbanque (1965). As the faces of the circus clown Bocki of Circus Francky (1963) and the baladins (1964) emphasize, his characters always have the sad look and the frozen smile. They occupy almost the entire picture and do not provide an unobstructed perspective. Until 1967, the funds of most of his works are virtually nonexi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2992 characters.]  Artist bio

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