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Born on February 12th
1934 in Saint-Lô, Manche, he studied
at the Institut d’Avranche, Manche
and at the “Beaux Arts of Rennes,
Brittany.
| 1997 |
Published
“Mes Déchirures”,
a collection of poems and travel sketches. |
| 1989 |
Awarded the “Palmes
Académiques”, a
prestigious award for excellence in
education in France, and “Arts
et Lettres”, a literary
achievement prize. |
| 1987 |
Published “A
Mots Couverts”, a collection
of poems and drawings |
| 1985 |
Created the “Foire
aux Croûtes” in Saint-Lô
in collaboration with Rotary Club
and President Jean-Louis Potier. The
term “croûte”
in French refers to poor quality paintings
and was there used ironically. |
1970-
1993 |
Created the “Atelier
d’art de la Poulinière”,
an art school in Saint-Lô. |
| 1964 |
Created the “Beaux-Arts”
department at the Institut Saint-lô. |
| 1959 |
Appointed visual arts teacher at Institut
Saint-Lô. |
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PAINTER
Michel CLOS has been exhibiting since 1960
and his favourite themes are women, public
spectacles and their inner workings, circuses,
gardens, nature, water and markets.
His trips abroad were the cause of theme
exhibitions about the Balearic Islands (his
mother was from Majorca), Sicily, Crete,
Ciprus, Marocco, Senegal, the Malagasy Republic,
Thailand, Mexico, Guatemala, India, Indonesia,
Vietnam, the West Indies and Venice.
Since 1974 :
Annual exhibition with completely new works.
The theme is always Saint-Lô in mid-December.
The 2004 edition featured Venice, Morocco
and Vietnam with a little symphony of blue
watercolours. |
