LES PETITES AFFICHES DE BRETAGNE

LA NOUVELLE RÉPUBLIQUE DU CENTRE-OUEST

CHRONIQUE RÉPUBLICAINE

OUEST FRANCE

LE QUOTIDIEN DU MÉDECIN

7 JOURS LES PETITES AFFICHES

LE GÉNÉRALISTE

LE QUOTIDIEN DU MÉDECIN

7 JOURS LES PETITES AFFICHES

Painted in the solitude of the artist’s workroom, flooded with music (music, that is companion of joy and remedy to all pains , as Vermeer wrote on the lid of a harpsichord), his pictures, with their pure and energetic touches, reflect the artist’s love of life in a great variety of styles and range of colours: still lifes in light and subdued shades, nudes with harmonious curves, murky portraits, landscapes outlined in a thick and heavy matter, orchestras and musicians carried away by the brush's momentum

Itinerary of an out-of-the-ordinary painter.
A fifty-year old, bearded, genuine artist, he hesitated for a long time between stethoscope and easel before realizing that he could perfectly combine both Of course, he goes on painting, strengthening his technique, always bathed in music, another of his great passions. In caféLa Parenthèse , he exhibits 20 or so figurative paintings A warm message, full of hope, illustrated by an extreme variety of subjects, much appreciated by the public

A.V.

The Cultural Center JULIETTE DROUET puts up for another few days the exhibition of the Rennes painter Christian Labrousse... The 40 paintings displayed in Fougères are the fruit of the artist’s work between 1990 and 1996. Skilfully using small coloured touches, he creates pictures showing a real mastery, in which objects always seem on the verge of loosing their real shapes

The Bar scenes of Christian Labrousse sketch small bar stories with an amused stroke and a lively brushwork. It is for us to imagine what they confess in the surrounding hum and the clattering of glasses, especially since the characters represented in these small-sized pictures just look like everybody
These scenes have been painted fairly quickly for an artist who likes to hurry slowly : oil painting makes it possible to take one’s time, to superimpose colours, to sculpt the matter
Time again Christian Labrousse likes to make this quotation from the Japanese painter HOKUSAI, which he would like to come true for himself: When I am 110 years old, I shall draw a line, and it will vibrate with life

Gérard Pernon

Christian Labrousse is a man with a dual vocation. To have chosen medicine, and more precisely psychiatry, as a profession, did not prevent him from painting relentlessly His second exhibition in Rennes is focussed on the Bar scenes , a bar being in his opinion a specially convenient setting to watch human behaviour.
He obviously enjoyed painting these scenes. His pictures, with their warm tints and their many figures, give off a feeling of intimacy quite outside time. They make you want to join in and enjoy this atmosphere

Dr Béatrice Vuaille

Christian Labrousse loves passionately classical music, and more especially jazz So it was for him a natural source of inspiration.
Today, the artist presents us with different pictures related to the world of jazz, showing the variety of its history and the liveliness of this ever-renewing world.
Christian Labrousse being an eclectic painter, also tackles other subjects as different as his Vietnamese Women or, among his big-sized pictures, the Marshalling yard , Paseo , which evoques the world of bullfighting, or his disturbing Midnight Mass , which gives a striking feeling of timelessness

Gwenaelle de Carné

Rennes: painting the world of jazz Representation, through a simple character or groups of musicians, of his unflinching passion for jazz. These last works of Christian Labrousse express passionately his simple and deep love for painting. His pictures are truly mooving and very lifelike. Nothing contrived in them, even though the stroke is complex. No compromise, though matter is omnipresent. The rhythm lies as much in the picture itself as in the depicted scenes The exhibition of a highly gifted colleague, whose work you simply must discover

Dr Jerome Vuaille

"RENNES : LABROUSSE - Freedom through colours For this last exhibition CL played on the ochre colours and adopted a brighter palette in order to enhance the landscapes of South Morocco . He mixed them with shades of red for the Venetian lagoons or a floating market in Thailand . Together with these new works, we find his usual themes, which are dear to the painter: Rennes , his native city is a favourite topic, but also music (as a source of inspiration and fulfilment of the senses, familiar objects, pubs "

Béatrice Vuaille

CL: an invitation to travel His landscapes, powerfully constructed, have a rhythm of their own due to the interplay of coloured plans enshrined in shades of powerful blacks. CL catches the warm ochre and the whites of the Moroccan landscapes, the fruity shades of the Venetian houses, the thousand colours of the oriental markets, the slate blue of the roofs in Rennes

GW de Carné