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George Sécan (1913-1987) was born in Bucharest, the son of a French vice-consul and a Finnish woman. He studied fine arts in Paris and Munich, obtaining various awards and winning important competitions from the age of 18. Read the full biography

George Sécan (1913-1987) was born in Bucharest, the son of a French vice-consul and a Finnish woman. He studied fine arts in Paris and Munich, obtaining various awards and winning important competitions from the age of 18. He stayed for a long time in various European and non-European countries, drawing from these experiences that left profound marks on his pictorial work. He was also inspired on numerous occasions by the Italian landscape. Having remained outside the main artistic currents as well as the world of galleries and art dealers, he has nevertheless managed to gain international fame by virtue of the open acclaim received among the major critics and the public. Creator of a new genre of painting which he called « Subform » in 1941. Tapié redefined "Subformel" this genre of painting in which the artist tends to express himself by moving completely away from himself, in an attempt to rediscover an old lost agreement, that of primitive man in front of his simple and more truthful subconscious. This commitment sometimes translates into the transfiguration of the landscape or simply of a rhythmic sensation into images of an exasperated expressive violence which, like the dazzling intensity of colour, has few parallels in contemporary painting.