Jean Droit

Jean Droit, 1924 Paris Poster for the Olympic Games

From his early youth, Jean Droit manifested his talents as an artist, primarily in watercolors. His first exhibition of watercolors was at the Galerie du Roy in Brussels in 1912. His posters and illustrations, published by numerous magazines and in luxury books, were universally known and appreciated. Shortly before 1914, Jean Droit designed the outfits for the boards of the Belgian Army.

Upon his return to France after the end of the war, he became a draftsman at the Manufacture de Sèvres and resumed his artistic and educational activities. Several of his works are at the Royal Army Museum in Brussels.

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Phillipe Morillon, “Alain Camara”

Phillipe Morillon, “Alain Camara, Boulevard de Sebastopol en 1979″

Bault

Bault,, Script Art on Staircase, Paris

Bault is a grafitti artist living and working in Paris, France.

The artist’s site for more images of his work: http://bault.tumblr.com

Rafel Delalande

Rafel Delalande: Tattoo Artist

Rafel Delalande is a Paris based tattoo artist with a heavy hand and a dark heart. Beautifully pointillistic intricacy from this almost exclusively black ink tattoo artist. Rafel was featured in The New Tattoo book that was released recently. The Art of Pain — Forever.

For any info contact rafeldelalande@gmail.com

Emien Etting

Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings by Emien Etting

Emlen Etting, born in Philadelphis in August of 1905, was a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and member of Philadelphia’s elite Main Line Society. He attended schools in Lausanne, Switzerland, and St. George’s in Newport, Rhode Island. After graduating from Harvard in 1928, Eating studied in Paris with the artist Andre Lhote who taught his students to reduce their subjects into lines and shapes. Emlen remained influenced by Lhote, his teacher and mentor, for the rest of his life.

Paris at that time was a student’s world. It was filled with myriad forms of art, philosophy, and all the passionate discussions that would accompany it. Etting frequented the most exclusive art shows and enjoyed the avant-garde films screened in Paris Studio 28. It was in this artistic crucible that Emlen Etting mingled with the most influential artists of the day

Emien Etting’s figurative paintings and drawings depict the loneliness of modernity and the extravagance of nature. He illustrated works by Paul Valéry and Franz Kafka, among others. Etting’s two films, the 1932 “Poem 8” and “Oramunde” filmed in 1933, are considered milestones of poetic filmmaking.