Geneviève Claisse

Born in Quiévy in 1935, Geneviève Claisse was a French artist who died in Dreux in 2018. She became interested in art while reading the magazine Art Aujourd'hui. She embraced the ideas of Abstraction Création formulated by Auguste Herbin, and began working in lyrical abstraction with flat tints of color. In 1964, the circle became the principal figure in her work, enabling her to focus her research on the idea of movement. In 1970, she began working on her illusions using black lines on a white background. Only later did she return to color, alternating flat and linear compositions. Her work has been exhibited extensively, notably at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Chaux-de-Fond in 1967, at the Montreal World Fair and at the Musée Matisse in Cateau-Cambrésis.