2024-04-19 04:41:00
The painter Pierre Cazaux alias d’Artagnan opens his Atelier Museum on Wednesday 24 April in the Saint-Cyprien area of Toulouse.
This Wednesday, April 24, the painter Pierre Cazaux, alias d’Artagnan, opens his Atelier Musée on rue Gamelsy, in the Saint-Cyprien district of Toulouse. During this evening, he will present small paintings of the Pink City and various landscapes, seabirds, scenes from everyday life, portraits, caricatures, collector’s postcards, as well as the 5 volumes of his book autobiography “The adventurous life of the Painter Cazaux”.
50 years of career
And when it comes to adventure, we can say that this adventurous Gascon knows a thing or two about it. Pierre Cazaux, d’Artagnan’s nickname, with audacity, panache and a quirk on his chin, began his pictorial career more than 50 years ago, even if, he says, “I drew before I knew I know how to write.” He is a street painter, and has traveled the world with nearly a million portraits and comics to his credit. Self-taught and trained in all techniques, he made his sketches on the terraces of seaside cafes.
Although he met and experienced poverty himself, he happily remembers the successful periods when he showed his works in luxury hotels, in Egypt, Morocco, Mauritius, Reunion or Martinique. Based for around fifteen years in Toulouse, he has exhibited in the region and further afield. In honors, he admits without hypocrisy better to sell his paintings, and in fact there are thousands of them to sell, certainly often at low prices, and therefore not to be rich. Today, at the age of 76, Pierre Cazaux d’Artagnan wants to be above all a “committed painter” with thematic paintings in which he defends causes that are dear to him, women, nature or animals, in among others. He is currently working on a work dedicated to the great humanitarians and protectors of the planet. Paintings that are not for sale and that, as a professional painter, he would like to be able to give conferences “to explain them to young people so that they can lead”.
Exhibition “Grande nuit des Lombards” Wednesday April 24 from 7 pm, 12 rue Gamelsy in Toulouse
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