The painting sensations of Francois Baron-Renouard • Expressed in his works now on exhibition at Dallas, Texas Recorded by ALEXANDER WATT In the short period of six years in the life and work of an artist such as François Baron-Renouard (b. 19…
“School of Paris” by Lydia Harambourg
François Baron-Renouard chose to deal with a language of his time, in osmosis with authenticity of formal and poetic approach which finds equivalences between reality and imagination. Art is an invention like nature has been by the…
Impressionism of non figurative painting by Eugene Ionesco, writer
Baron-Renouard invites us to a stroll in the immediate spheres. When looking at his paintings we have the feeling of a soaring, a journey in the reality of a make-believe. Real as a matter of fact…
A painting by Alexander Watt
A PAINTING which has no mystery to it is of little interest to me' is what Baron-Renouard, the artist, said to me when we were recently discussing the merits, and otherwise, of painters, both well…
Alexander Watt, art critic, Dallas, 1962
His own freedom Homage to Hiroshige Baron Renouard considers nature or external world a main supply of his inspiration and try, by a subjective way, to fix in his paintings all the feelings he had…
Andre Parinaud, Art Critic
The destiny of a painter with his miracles, his chance, his luck, the liberty attitude and determinism, is the perfect symbol of human history. Baron-Renouard's painting is for me, each time an opportunity to contemplate this…
Jean Rudel, Emeritus Professor of Sorbonne, Tokyo, 1997
May I be allowed to make a double comparison. I think about the long-time work for the fishing nets to be manufactured by craftsmen or by a whole family, those nets one could see being made…
Internal frontier, Andre Verdet, Writer
It seemed to me that Baron-Renouard's canvas were as much poetic internal landscapes, landscapes wandered by effluvium where force, mystery, panic are combined with dream, with tenderness, with human brainpower in quest of unity, pacificatory union. A…
Henry Galy-Carles, Writer : Abstract and imaginary naturalism
Seven years in the officer corps, during the last war, made Baron-Renouard sensltIve to the flowing atmosphere of the region he used to flyover, views high above horizon at a thousand-meter altitude, at the nature's breath and…
Svetlin Roussev, Former President of the Union of Bulgarian artists-painters
Once, during a difficult time in my life, when friends have disappeared (as far as the true ones were there) and simple knowledge was gone, during a pause between two meetings of a international jury in…
Gerard Xuriguera, Art Critic
Baron-Renouard understood for a long time that painting shall not only be the living memory of view, but the reflection of intimate states as well. He learnt, by the same way, from oriental people, not to…
François Bergot, Chief curator of Museum of France
François Bergot, Chief curator of Museum of France I shan't keep myself (would i desire it I could not) the pleasure Baron Renouard 's painting brings me ; it is literally dlightful. Since I have…
Camille Bourniquel, writer
We are linked together by some memories of 1939-1941. A Military Academy of cadets in Laval, after then the choice for Aviation. There were two Air Force Academies: Versailles then Rabat. Escaping from the black-out, the light,…
Eugène Ionesco, writer
Eugène Ionesco, writer Baron Renouard invites us to a stroll in the immediate spheres. When looking at his paintings we have the feeling of a soaring, a journey in the reality of a make-believe. Real…