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Claude Verlinde, 1927 | Fantastic Realism painter

Claude Verlinde is a French painter🎨 who works in the vein of “fantastic realism”, sometimes called “magic realism”, and his work shows the lineage of fantastical art from Bruegel🎨 and Bosch🎨 to the Surrealists🎨 and contemporary magic realism.
I would also suspect that a number of the Surrealists, and certainly contemporary magic realists, were influenced by his work (not to mention the production designers of the Harry Potter movies).
Claude Verlinde found his vocation very early and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere at the age of twenty. Soon, the richness of his painting, its great sensitivity controlled by technique, made Verlinde undisputed master of visionary art of our time.
Distinctions: Chevalier of Arts and Letters 1986, Medal🎨 of the City of Paris.

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter


Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter


Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter


Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde 1927 | French Surrealist painter

Claude Verlinde è un artista Francese🎨, nato il 24 juin 1927 da genitori fiamminghi.
Claude Verlinde ha iniziato la sua educazione artistica molto presto, all'età di 20 anni. Inizialmente, ha frequentato l'École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts di Parigi e successivamente l'Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
Con la sua perfetta tecnica da maestro rinascimentale, cerca soprattutto lirismo e libertà di espressione ed è considerato uno dei maestri dell'arte visionaria e fantastica.
È molto influenzato da Hieronymus Bosch🎨, Cranach, Francisco Goya🎨, James Ensor...
Nel 1980 ha progettato il poster di grande formato - un concerto di Pierrot - per il 17° Festival del Marais. Nel 1994, Verlinde ha preso parte alla grande mostra di Symbolists🎨 and Fantastics con il titolo Du fantastique au Visionnaire in Venedig, organizzato da Ernst Fuchs, tra gli altri. Nel 2007 ha illustrato in edizione limitata le favole di Jean de La Fontaine🎨.