Claudine Loquen Explained

Claudine Loquen
Birth Date:1965 2, df=y
Birth Place:Sainte-Adresse (Seine Maritime), France
Nationality:French
Field:Painting, sculpting, drawing
Movement:Naïve art, outsider art
Awards:Jean Anouilh award; Naive Art award

Claudine Marie Claire Loquen (born 1965), known as Claudine Loquen [Klodin loʊkən], is a French painter in the naïve style.[1]

Several of her works are held in French and foreign museums (Musée Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise, Musée international d'art naïf in Magog, Musée d'art spontané in Brussels).[2] [3]

Biography

Early life

Loquen is born in Sainte-Adresse (Normandy) on 22 February 1965.[4] She studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Le Havre.[5]

Career

In 2003, her first exhibition took place in Café Les Deux Magots in Paris.[6]

Colombe Anouilh, on 8 December 2014, awarded her the Jean Anouilh prize for her work on canvas Young women with wolves (Jeunes filles aux loups) presented at the Salon d'automne, in Paris. In 2021, still at the Salon d'Automne, she was awarded the Naive Art prize for a paintingIn the shadow of the flowering maidens (A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs).

From 2021, she presides over the Naive Art section at the Salon d'automne in Paris, bringing together some twenty artists from the naive art movement.[7]

Themes

Loquen mainly paints women and historical figures, drawing her inspiration from literature, history, poetry and fairytales. She has made the wolf her animal symbol.[8] Gemellity and sorority are also recurring themes in her work.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Paris salons

Group exhibitions

See also

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Bible of singular art (La bible de l'art singulier), Ed. Lelivredart, 2011=isbn 978-2-35532-076-7
  2. Web site: Loquen Claudine. 18 February 2021.
  3. Web site: Musée International d'Art_Naïf de Magog : Search Objects : Claudine Loquen.
  4. Luis Porquet, Les affiches de Normandie, 2018-issn=1145-8488
  5. https://www.claudine-loquen.com/biographie.htm Biography
  6. Café Les Deux Magots, Paris
  7. Web site: Le Salon d'Automne | Art naïf .
  8. Web site: Loquen Claudine. 18 February 2021.
  9. Web site: Exposition Claudine Loquen au musée Nicolas Poussin (Les Andélys) | Les éditions Lelivredart.