An **Art** that brings to **painting** art as a passion.

Georges Mathieu was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) in 1921. Mathieu studied literature and philosophy before switching to art at the age of twenty-one. He began to organize **painting** group shows, using them to demonstrate as one of the first Europeans to do so the importance of American Abstract Expressionism. He was particularly interested in Jackson Pollock and his spontaneous gestural handling of painting.

Painting Art reformed the mid 19th century idea of real art.

From 1954 Mathieu staged the painting of large-scale works as theatrical events, culminating in his using 800 tubes of paint to create a painting measuring 4 x 12 meters in front of an audience of 2000 at the Theater Sarah-Bernhardt in 1956. As an **Art** he continued to perform his Action **Painting** throughout Europe and, in 1957, in Tokyo to universal acclaim; his works were shown at special exhibitions in Paris and New York in 1950 and 1952. Early in the 1960s Mathieu also did sculpture and designed furniture, tapestries and frescoes.

Oil on Canvas
35 x 57,5 in (89 x 146 cm)