{"id":796,"date":"2006-08-09T22:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=796"},"modified":"2008-07-18T21:39:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T20:39:11","slug":"the-art-of-gerard-trignac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/09\/the-art-of-gerard-trignac\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of G\u00e9rard Trignac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/trignac1.jpg\" id=\"image794\" alt=\"trignac1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>G\u00e9rard Trignac produces etchings of a kind I&#8217;d most likely be doing myself if I wasn&#8217;t otherwise occupied, detailed architectural fantasies that owe a lot to my sainted <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi\" target=\"_blank\">Piranesi<\/a> and (I&#8217;m guessing, since they&#8217;re both French) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Meryon\" target=\"_blank\">Charles M\u00e9ryon<\/a>. As usual with contemporary artists of this nature one can find the pictures but information about the artist is harder to come by. A web search reveals this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>G\u00e9rard Trignac was born in 1955, and initially trained to become an architect\u2014training which is evident in his imagined cityscapes. Each of his prints begins with a detailed sketch, which is then fully developed on the copper plate. Each print can take months to complete. Besides individual prints, Trignac has often turned his talents to series of prints used to illustrate classic texts by authors such as Calvino, Borges, and others. His work is in the collection of numerous museums and public collections in Europe and the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/trignac2.jpg\" id=\"image795\" alt=\"trignac2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wonderful (French-only) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egone.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Egone.net<\/a> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egone.net\/artistes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">artist&#8217;s quarter<\/a> with two Trignac portfolios (scroll to the bottom of the page\u2014and look at some of the other work while you&#8217;re there). Work by G\u00e9rard&#8217;s sister, Colette, is also featured. Other print collections can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galleriadelleone.com\/artistes\/trignac\/frameset-trignac.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfonlinearts.com\/Gerard_Trignac.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitch-febvrel.com\/trignac.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9rard Trignac produces etchings of a kind I&#8217;d most likely be doing myself if I wasn&#8217;t otherwise occupied, detailed architectural fantasies that owe a lot to my sainted Piranesi and (I&#8217;m guessing, since they&#8217;re both French) Charles M\u00e9ryon. As usual with contemporary artists of this nature one can find the pictures but information about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/09\/the-art-of-gerard-trignac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of G\u00e9rard Trignac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2,30,27,21],"tags":[1860,139],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-black-white","category-borges","category-fantasy","tag-charles-meryon","tag-piranesi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-cQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}