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344:, the artist, with a fervour born of all the existential interstices due to his being, will first and foremost clash with his model. He dispossesses him of his own myths so that they may be recreated in the dimensions he wants to affirm." Jean Paulhan asked: "By what means (or what secret) is it given to J.-C. Fourneau to have at his disposal both such abundance and such harshness?"
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compared his drawings to those of a medium and appreciated their meticulousness: "The detail in Jean-Claude
Fourneau's drawings gives us a sense of the infinite (...) Fascinating in the power and sensitivity that every stroke of his brush conveys." For the literary character of his work, the critic
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before the war, probably did not imagine that his experience would lead him to these portraits of princesses, countesses, marquises of the whole of Paris, beautiful and anxious in their deserted corridors, in search of a soul, a need, a dream. Jean-Claude
Fourneau succeeds
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mentioned him as being part of the group. Breton was a form of tutor to
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