Pierre Jacques PELLETIER 1869+1931

Biography

Pierre Jacques is considered the painter of the Parisian suburbs, but he also painted very often in the heart of the capital, quite often in pastel, but he also mastered the oil technique very easily.

"Pelletier knew how to create a style for himself by assimilating both the lessons of the landscapers of the Fontainebleau school and those of the Impressionists. A poet, he moves us with his melancholy landscapes throughout the four seasons, with the beauty of his skies But he surprises us when, in retrospect becoming a fascinating journalist, he describes to us what Paris and our suburbs looked like... St-Ouen, Genevilliers, Epinay, Argenteuil, Issy-les-Moulineaux... - a century ago. ...

...To watch Pierre-Jacques Pelletier is to enter the bustling world of art at the end of the century, to rub shoulders with the greatest while remaining unique in its palette, in its design, in its colors , in the expression of the art that it offers to its amateur.

He knows how to constrain the borrowings of reality from his own sensations, from his inner universe.

He knows how to make a landscape express the sadness of winter by giving its colors the muffled and silent atmosphere of snow. It gives us chills...

All his work is expressed in the rendering of the atmospheres that all of nature reveals throughout the seasons, dawns and dawns, the earth and the skies..."

These sentences are taken from a very beautiful work on the painter, by Alain Mathieu, Sylviane Seraudie published by Bilingue.