Biography from Simic Galleries:
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Claude Cambour was born in the region of Normandy, France in
1940. The Cambour home was frequented by artists, and Cambour’s
grandfather lived in the company of the renowned French painter Maurice
de Vlaminck (1876 – 1958), and Cambour’s daughter played with his
children. Vlaminck, along with three other artists (Albert
Marquet, Henri Matisse and Andre Derain) were influenced by Cezanne and
catapulted into being the movement known as Fauvism.
Cambour has
lived in various parts of France. While living on the banks of
the Marne at Nogent (near Paris), the artist developed his technique
under the tutelage of artist Maurice Martin. Cambour’s
style evolved into one of modern impressionism; using dots of color to
bring forth shapes, distance, tones and textures, his palette covers
the entire spectrum of the chromatic chart.
Ranging from reds to
blues to violets, greens and yellows, the artist’s compositions are
intended to suggest explosion of feeling. Most of his
compositions depict the same locations which Monet, Renoir and Sisley
painted, yet Cambour’s interpretations are his own: foliated
gardens, swaying willows, floating petals and looking glass
ponds. His goal is to exhibit the very essence of nature –
absolute beauty.
Cambour has internationally exhibited his
works, displaying nearly one hundred canvases in Giverny and many other
works from England to the United States and Japan. Currently
living in his native France, Cambour’s hopes to paint Monet’s garden
and other places of historic beauty, capturing anew that, which so
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