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  Gallery Of Caricature By Patrice Ricord - France

Patrice Ricord says Ricord, is a French cartoonist and portrait painter, born in 1947 in Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes)
His father was a woodcarver and his grandfather was the painter Auguste Renoir service during his last residence in the area of ??Collettes in Cagnes. It was his manager and driver with the nickname Baptistin 1. Bachelor of Philosophy at the end of study at Paul-Valéry high school student from ESAG in 1967 Ricor between the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris for five years learning of pictorial art. In parallel, in 1969, he joined the team of the magazine Pilote, committed by its then director, René Goscinny.
The following year, in the same week, and alternating with Mulatier Jean and Jean-Claude Morchoisne, he inaugurated the series of Big Mouths, hyperrealistic cartoons, which by their innovative style, quickly spread on the cover and in the editorial pages international magazines.
His caricatures are then published in L'Express, Le Figaro Magazine, Paris Match, Le Nouvel Observateur, L'Expansion,  Lui, Esquire, Der Stern  Sunday times, Panorama, Jornal do Brasil, Graphis (in) Zoom , Japan Illustration ... in 1980, the trio founded a publishing house, which will produce notoriously fifteen cartoons collections in France and abroad, including a bestseller These animals who govern us.
In 1987, he directed parallel book covers for "Gault & Millau" guides, "Correspondence of Groucho Marx", "Life of Arthur Rubinstein" movie posters "Two forty-five BC" "Asterix and Obelix against Caesar", and a short movie "Big Mouths Superstars". Subsequently, he worked for the daily Le Figaro and Nice-Matin, the Pilgrim Magazine with weekly BD NO MAD, then FR2 television for which he created a political cast of characters, caricatures and animated in 3D, which will be broadcast at a Sunday series "Politically correct".
Twelve collections of his drawings will be published later, alone or occasionally with various collaborators, including with Jean-Pierre Gauffre for texts, more than 650 caricatures and portraits gathered in 26 albums. In June 2005, its website won the US the Best Global website in the category Graphics.
In 2008, invited to China as a member of an international jury to represent France by his satirical drawings, Patrice Ricord has become by the fact the first European cartoonist to be accepted by China . His political caricatures were exposed to Guiyang during the world Meetings of press illustration and animation .
The same year, in a different kind, he published his first detective novel Mistral, signed Elman Cent.
Ricor relied on three complementary techniques to extend his research graphically.
The first view is sharp in his teens by observing the work of his father, while it chiseled round-bumps in the palm of his wood carvings. She allowed him to gradually acquire the sense of volume, thanks to the gradual discovery of the passage from darkness to light, perceptible live under the blows of gouge alternating empty and full in the timber 7 book.
The second is related to learning copper engraving on stone or taught at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Honoré Daumier and Gustave Doré were masters in the nineteenth century. There are not so long, this scholarly field was used for drawing stamps and banknotes in Europe, technical legacy he has adapted to the structured graphic design of its faces 8.
The third concerns the awakening to the cartoon at the age of 14, encouraged by his admiration for two American cartoonists, masters of the genre, Manning Hall and Mort Drucker. The first having pointed by an uncluttered expression traits of Hollywood stars of the fifties, the second has raged for more than 40 years in Mad Magazine. Finally, the discovery of caricatures of David Levine, then those of Raoul Cabrol, precursors of his own caricature and realistic style, helped to consolidate its vocation
The combination of these techniques, speaking by a need to make clear the architecture faces on Papier10, facilitated their implementation in volume. Or by creating masks with human size, giant heads for Nice Carnival (2002 and 2003), and chess pieces for a "political Exchequer" or also drawn then translated into CG characters for a TV show "Politically correct".
An Alsatian pastry confectioner has even attacked the making of candy scaffolding, trying to reproduce some of the 22 cartoons Ricor composed in the manner of the painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, assemblies concocted in two books, What to choose? and La Cuisine des Chefs. Animations, or "morphing", have also been conducted by Fr 3 TV from his sketches. They show the evolution of a human facies to that of an animal like him every feature in a specific expression
Upon publication in the press, caricatures and portraits of Patrice Ricord were the subject of numerous exhibitions, collective or individual: in Paris (1979), Buenos Aires, Mexico City (1981), London (1986), Hamburg, Basel Saint-Esteve (1996), Limoges (1998), Antibes (1999 and 2009), Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (2001 and 2004), Guiyang (2008), to mention only the most significant. Their success with a unanimous public saw developing a similar craze among private collectors and museums of State (International Contemporary Documentation Library in Paris, Caricature & Cartoon Museum Basel in Basel, Peynet museum the cartoon in Antibes).
So the style "Big Mouths", initiated by a trio in 1970, has largely school in the world, including in countries whose political regimes were not deemed a priori to encourage any type of comic satire. In today reflects the explosion of new talent, especially in China, where the grotesque humor which was also an ancestral tradition, has suddenly woken up to this style. In July 2008, the distribution in the People's Daily of a wide range of cartoons Ricor, confirmed that opening.
In return, as reported by many critics, writers and journalists 12, originality and accuracy of their own cartoons have also encouraged the development of copying and plagiarism as they appear, both by amateurs as professionals. This is second hand drawings, decals and even clever transpositions flat or volume, but always directly inspired by his cartoons. They are easily identifiable, next to the expression of the deformation and the precise angle of their staging, clearly and deliberately chosen in the original drawings of Ricor. For if it is the words that characterize it, it is that of researcher and innovator.
The climax of this graphic requirement is expressed by the hyper-realistic drawing of a "French Rooster" by Louis Pauwels wanted to appear on the cover of 10 years anniversary issue of Le Figaro magazine. Said cock, made for six weeks, was reproduced on a giant canvas covering five floors of the facade of the Hotel Georges V in Paris, and his magnified image was also projected on the windows of the courtyard of the Louvre, in the illuminations festive of 22 October 1988.

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