Jean Martin, peintre de la réalité. 1911-1996. Copte the various activities

the various activities

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Jean Martin, peintre de la réalité. 1911-1996. Copte the various activitiesA contemporary of the artists of the Tmoignage group, Jean Martin was born in Lyon in 1911. Self taught, he was supported very early on by the gallery owner Marcel Michaud, with whom he shared the ambition of a social art nourished by the conquests of the Popular Front. On the fringes of the debates surrounding the quarrel over realism, Jean Martin developed a "painting of reality marked by the ascendancy of the painters of the 16th century German, in