Michel Calvet, learn more about the artist

Michel Calvet, born in Toulouse in 1956, trained at the Beaux-Arts school in his hometown. His painting, lively and instinctive, emphasizes movement and emotion. Influenced by alla prima watercolor, his work retains a powerful spontaneity and remarkable freedom of gesture. Carnivals, festivals, fishermen, bullfights or Moroccan scenes: each painting reveals a unique atmosphere, oscillating between free figuration, colored spots and expressionist accents. Depending on the place and the moment, its forms are deconstructed, the colors respond to each other, the contours fade. Nothing is fixed—everything vibrates. A sincere artist, a true painter, Michel Calvet immerses us, without artifice or fashion, into a universe of light, movement and happiness.