Paintings

Jean-Marc Philippe painted for more than twenty years: from the figurative pastels of his beginnings to the lyrical abstraction of the late 1960s, then the large acrylic canvases of the Protest Paintings (1971 – 1980), born of his discovery of American Abstract Expressionism and New York graffiti. From 1978 to 1986 he returned to figuration with the White Work: the “Gazes”, the “Smiles” and the “Snapshots”.

Early worksbefore 1967

1968 – 1969

Protest Paintings1971 – 1980

White Works1978 – 1986

Listen

1^st October 1976 — Les après-midi de France Culture, by Pierre Descargues, France Culture
The Protest Paintings, on the occasion of the exhibition at the Galerie Attali
October 1976 — Le Pop-Club, by José Artur, France Inter
Interview with the painter
30 December 1976 — Programme on luxury, France Culture
Jean-Marc Philippe among the guests

Recordings © Radio France / INA and Radio suisse romande, made available for documentary purposes.

Writings

By Jean-Marc Philippe

Science and Art: Towards a New Kind of Dialogue — Spirales. Journal de culture internationale, no. 20-21 (“La Deuxième Renaissance”), November-December 1982, pp. 58-60.
Artistic Invention and its Metamorphosis — in Modernes et après : « Les Immatériaux », Paris, Autrement, 1985, pp. 173-182.

On Jean-Marc Philippe

Jean-Marc Philippe (Galerie Attali catalogue) — Gilles Plazy, “Jean-Marc Philippe”, catalogue of the exhibition Œuvres récentes, Paris, Galerie Attali, 1976 (extract from the journal Cimaise).
The White Work (Galerie Eolia catalogue) — Jean-Marc Philippe. Œuvres récentes 1976-1984 : l'Œuvre blanche, Paris, Galerie Eolia, “Les Cahiers Eolia” no. 2, 1985.

References and links

Books, catalogues and journals

Maximilien Gauthier, Jean-Marc Philippe, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff, 1967.
Gilles Plazy, “Jean-Marc Philippe”, Cimaise, no. 128, September-December 1976, pp. 40-47.
FIAC 76, catalogue, Paris, Foire internationale d'art contemporain, 1976, p. 32.
Die Internationale Kunstmesse – Art 6'75 Basel, catalogue, Basel, 1975, p. 78.
Françoise Armengaud, Titres, Paris, Klincksieck, 1988, chapter “Jean-Marc Philippe”, pp. 213-222.
Jean-Marc Philippe. Œuvres récentes 1976-1984 : l'Œuvre blanche, Paris, Les Cahiers Eolia, 1985 (ISBN 2-905536-01-2).

Radio

Pierre Descargues, Les après-midi de France Culture, France Culture, 1^st October 1976.
José Artur, Le Pop-Club, France Inter, 23 October 1976.

Online resources

Works by Jean-Marc Philippe in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques (Navigart).