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This area is dedicated to presenting experiments in painting conception and execution. Painting is not, as most people think, 90 percent craft and 10 percent content, rather it is a marriage of an original conception and an adequate execution. Painting has no depth value as a mere repetition of the works of the past, either tirelessly technical and/or boringly unimaginative.

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I'll try to explain. What is originality?  It's showing a spectator a vision he or she has never seen. If you've already seen it somewhere, if it is a mere variation on known subject matter, it has little originality. Of course, it (the stuff, content, etc.) can't become so original as to lose all bearing with what has been done in the past or is being done today; art needs to defend its originality using a kind of "case method" -- by arguing its livelihood and showing how it applies known ideas in a new way.

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Plans for 2017

10/02/2017 21:53
There are two projects in store for the beginning of 2017: (1) I plan to participate in the open air art market five Sundays in the arts district and (2) I would like to finally launch XPo du Jour, a modern and contemporary art newsletter. The latter will be in pdf format and downloaded...
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Signs and Wonders at the Gardanne Municipal Library

03/12/2014 16:41
Michael Aliix, founder of Xposart, will present a lecture on introductory semiotics that explains how this interdisciplinary type of social science analysis applies to painting and literature. The presentation will take place on December 6, 2014, at 3 P.M., at the...
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Three conferences on painting in Gardanne in 2012

11/04/2013 15:45
We prepared and gave three conferences on understanding painting where we sought to focus on the transition from one way of painting to another -- with emphasis on the transitional dynamic. The first conference explored the passage from antique/medieval painting to that of the...
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Homage to Aimé Césaire (Wall Depictions on Paper) at the Leo Lagrange Gymnasium in Gardanne on November 20 2011)

26/01/2012 16:28
The event was Children's Rights Day and the theme an homage to Aimé Césaire -- Carribean (Martinique) poet and politician, recently deceased. The mural I was planning for the walls of the Leo Lagrange Gymnasium in Gardanne failed to some extent. I was expecting to create a wall size...
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Direct Communication (Consolat Event) on October 8 and 9 2011

04/11/2011 14:27
The Consolat event was a experiment in the direct communication of artworks on paper, posting of art during two days and one night on the walls of the buildings on two side streets of downtown Marseilles. Of the 26 drawings posted, 18 were left unperturbed, 8 were taken, fell, or were literally...
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Projects for Summer and Fall 2011

01/10/2011 16:45
Project for a mural (painted on paper) for presentation on "La journée des droits de l'enfant" (Children's Rights Day) at Gardanne. I plan a display that merges with the architecture of the work area (a large gym). The subject will be the slavery that took place...
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Results of Xposart's Annual Meeting

31/03/2011 16:12
The following deliberations were conducted and decisions taken on March 25. The board will be made up of the following officers: Michel Alix (president), Jean Alix (treasurer) and a secretary. We will seek to amplify our activities, enroll new artists, and form practical...
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Intention

24/03/2011 17:06
This website is a place to show recent paintings and articles
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About XPOSART

04/03/2011 10:51
XPOSART is a non-profit organization launched in southern France three years ago to help bring art to the attention of new viewers. In a sense, art has no place in a state-owned space or museum while it is still "alive," while it is still fighting for it livelihood. Let the successful artists...
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