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Bouscharain, Claude

 

French-born Claude Bouscharain, gifted with the true Huguenot spirit which comprises all the qualities of her ancestors, approaches art with the matter-of-factness of a wife and mother who practices her art as an integral part of her life. There is, however, an unexpected quality of lyricism in her work.

 

While the treatment suggests hard-edge, a closer look at her works will reveal a play of light and shade, of crispness and smoothness which makes them both understandable and mysterious.

 

Her painting reflects her own thoughts and, as she says, her works should be approached ‘not as static composition, but as fundamental rhythmical movements.’

 

Ref:  http://www.grahamsgallery.co.za/Books-Art.aspx?id=36

Erik Laubscher and Claude Bouscharain met as young art students at the Académie Montmartre, Paris, in 1951, both studying under the famous artist Fernand Léger. They married and started a family straight away, returning to Cape Town in 1953. The couple’s prolonged trip to the USA in 1966 influenced their work in a significant way, especially Claude’s, which responded immediately to the hard edged style in America at the time.

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