Association Robert Barriot |
 Robert Barriot has made the largest enamels on embossed copper known in
the world |
| How has this enormous work been ignored up to now? How did this artist create the largest enamels ever ? How has the artist’s collection of over 200 enamels
been kept together 30 years after his death? |
| The exceptional character of this innovative work, its
extreme originality, enormity, integrity and the impossibility of reproduction has
bestowed upon it a universal dimension. To bring this work to the attention of the public represents a major event in the history of the 20th Century. The Robert Barriot Association has grouped together 250 enamels on embossed copper, the largest ever seen in the world, plus some 150 sanguine and charcoal illuminated parchments, 200 copper engravings, 80 incunabula texts and 100 drawings and preparatory sketches of Barriot’s creations. The Robert Barriot Association invites you to learn about his work and to share in its revelation through exhibitions, the media and publications. |
| Having mastered 24 fields of art, including painting,
decoration, architecture, set and costume design for the theatre, embroidery, design,
glass making, pottery, ceramics, etc, Robert Barriot found his true calling and an
eminently personal artistic direction with the realisation of enamels on embossed copper. Robert Barriot’s works, some of which are magnificent, gave him a boundless vision of creation. The encounters he made, the diversity of the techniques he used to master these 24 different fields of art opened the gateway to another dimension in which matter, light and space would be reinvented. Robert Barriot transgressed 5,000 years of dogma, abused matter in order to find a space proportionate to his genius. He reinvented long-forgotten techniques to give enamel a relief, colour, and dimension that no other artist would have dared imagine. In 1940, the largest single-piece enamels were created. The body of Robert Barriot’s work (over 200 pieces) is indissociable. It represents the outcome of 50 years of creation in numerous fields and holds a unique position in the history of art, and particularly in the history of enamelling. The new dimension it gives to the practice of enamelling, which dates back some 4,000 years, bestows upon it an exceptional position in the history of art, in very much the same way that impressionism revolutionised the world of painting. |
Reveal
the works of Robert Barriot through national and international
exhibitions
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