2021
A photographer, draftsman, cinematographer and painter, Frédéric Choisel is a person of many talents. Colors swirl across his canvases as if they’re in motion — his brushstrokes produce unexpected forms and textural heft. And while he’s best known for his abstract paintings, Choisel has created numerous works in a realist style, drawing frequently on the power of nature to produce serene landscapes as well as enveloping depictions of cloudy skies at dusk.
Born in France, Choisel attended Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Cinématographiques and went on to the University of Paris VII, where he studied painting and other disciplines such as photography (he was shooting with an old Pentax as a child).
Influenced by the Dutch and Spanish Baroque artistic movements, Choisel credits 19th-century French masters Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot as inspirations. Photography and film are important to his painting, too. The artist initially worked as a filmmaker, and is still actively taking on projects as a cinematographer in the documentary realm. Choisel’s work behind the camera — any camera — is integral to his other endeavors. A still image he captures as part of a film project might find a new life as a subject at his easel.
Choisel has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions in France, Belgium and throughout the United States. He lives and works out of Paris, but also has a studio in Long Island City, New York, and is represented by Andra Norris Art Gallery in San Francisco.
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#7 With a voice one day I'll come back, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#7, With a voice one day I'll come back, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise. Monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspired by...
Ink, Monoprint
#2, I saw more than a thousand splendors coming to me, The Divine Comedy.
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#2, I saw more than a thousand splendors coming to me, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise . Monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand color...
Ink, Monoprint
#6, How hard it is to climb up other people's stairs, The Divine Comedy
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
#6, How hard it is to climb up other people's stairs, The Divine Comedy. The Paradise. monotype with hand coloring in ink. From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspi...
Ink, Monoprint
Inextricable V
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mixed media: oil, fiberglass, metallic pigments on panel, and framed in artist fabricated silver aluminum. Inspired by the cities of France, New York and the Bay Area, French Am...
Aluminum, Metal
Inextricable IV
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mixed media: oil, fiberglass, metallic pigments on panel, and framed in artist fabricated silver aluminum. Inspired by the cities of France, New York and the Bay Area, French Am...
Metal
Abstract Divergence
By Anne Subercaseaux
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Abstract Divergence' is 48 x 36 inches. Anne Subercaseaux's gleaming paintings realistically bridge urban with rural in the form of representational fragmented depictions of contemp...
Canvas, Oil
B/V (Abstract painting)
By Guillaume Moschini
Located in London, GB
B/V (Abstract painting) Acrylic and ink on canvas - Unframed This artwork is exclusive to IdeelArt. Guillaume Moschini is a French abstract artis...
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Francis Moreau - Échappée
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Francis Moreau is a French artist (1940-2021) who lived and worked in Paris, France. Like many others, he wasn't born with a brush from childhood but through hard wor...
Canvas, Oil
Sans Titre II
By Francois Rouan
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sans Titre II" c.1980 is an original color etching with aquatint on Arches paper by noted French abstract expressionist artist Francois Rouan...
Etching, Aquatint
French Contemporary Abstract Art by J.-L. Veret - Incertitude
By Jean-Luc Veret
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & marouflaged paper mounted on canvas Jean-Luc Veret is a French artist born in 1953 who lives & works between Paris & Corancy, France. He recognizes himself as a protean ar...
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
French Contemporary Abstract Art by J.-L. Veret, Lieu-Dit
By Jean-Luc Veret
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & marouflaged paper mounted on canvas Jean-Luc Veret is a French artist born in 1953 who lives & works between Paris & Corancy, France. He recognizes himself as a protean ar...
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Abstract (Edition 24/75)
By Bram Van Velde
Located in Missouri, MO
Abstract (Edition 24/75) By Bram van Velde (1895-1981) Signed and Numbered Bottom Center Without Frame: 37" x 24" With Frame: 37.75" x 24.75" Bram (Abraham Gerardus) van Velde was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme*, and Lyrical Abstraction*. He is often seen as member of the School of Paris* but his work resides somewhere between expressionism* and surrealism*, and evolved in the 1960s into an expressive abstract art. His paintings from the 1950s are similar to the contemporary work of Matisse, Picasso and the abstract expressionist Adolph Gottlieb. He was championed by a number of French-speaking writers, including Samuel Beckett and the poet André du...
Lithograph
