Rene Couturier, French Gestural Abstract Expressionist Textured Oil Painting, c.1970

Rene Couturier lives in the Netherlands and France. Rene Couturier is known for abstract still life, figure and landscape painting.
Rene’ Couturier is an artist whose works displays bold figurative lines of the “Jeune Painture” Movement, (Francoise Adnet, Richard Bellias, Bernard Buffet, Simone Dat, Michel de Gallard, Raymond Guerrier, Roger Lersy, Bernard Lorjou, Andre Minaux, Jean Pollet, Paul Rebeyrolle and Michel Thompson) and has an Abstract dimension, and a challenging, distinctive color technique.
With a palette knife, Couturier’s blends superimposed layers of sand and oil paint with the goal of creating a composition that is a vigorous contrast of color on texture, texture on dimension, dimension on line.
Born in 1933 in Dieppe, Normandy, a coastal town of France, Rene began drawing before he could walk. As an adolescent, he attended a watch making school and later went on to study at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts of Marseille. From 1958 to 1968 he was represented in several group and salon shows in France. A world renowned artist respected for his technical skill with the palette knife and vision. Additionally, he abstract style coupled with bold lines, and brilliant color has garnered much acclaim. His images are enhanced by the impeccable use of texture that creates create contrast not only in the finish but in dimension and color.