Jean
Cardot
born 1930
He's not an icon of the artworld - but he is certainly the most honored sculptor in France (Professeur, Chef d'atalier de sculpture , l'Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts a Paris; Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur; Membre de l'Institut) and he has worked in a variety of styles for both monuments and small figures.
Appealing to, but uncommitted to, the various ideologies of 20th Century sculpture, he freely imitated a variety of iconic artists like Henry Moore, Modigiani, Calder, and probably others whom I don't recognize. Most of his monumental work is non-figurative and all earlier work was designed for a taste quite different from mine.
But it looks like he always keep his hand in life-drawing - and when called upon to represent important national figures (after being recognized as one himself in his late-fifties) he rediscovered the stately elegance of the French tradition.
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