Jean-Philippe Lenclos
French colorist
Jean-Philippe Lenclos (born March 5, 1938) is a French designer-colorist and founder of Atelier 3D Couleur, a studio based in Paris, France. He has been referred to as "a new kind of artist required by modern society; a color designer." He has exhibited his work in Tokyo, London, Paris, and Lisbon, and his work is on permanent display at the national museum for modern art of France in Paris, within the Supergraphics and Architecture departments. Lenclos was a professor at l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Art Decoratifs (EnsAD) in Paris for 35 years and was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1981.
Early life and education
Jean-Philippe was born in Beuvry, Pas-de-Calais, France, in 1938. His father, Camille Lenclos (1903-1985), was a respected designer of religious furniture whose work was exhibited in 2006 at the Hotel de Beaulaincourt in Béthune: Lefebvre-Lenclos, un atelier de sculpture en Artois, 100 ans d’art sacré 1805-1905 (A Sculpture Workshop in Artois, 100 years of sacred art 1805-1905).
In 1960 he received an educational scholarship from the government of Japan and completed his studies at the Kyoto City University Fine Arts School. “I also studied calligraphy. This allowed me to discover the notion of graphic and pictorial space where the white has as much importance as the black.” –Lenclos. While in Kyoto he became interested in the symbolism and rhetoric of color. These ideas would eventually lead him to his study of his famous concept of Geography of Color.
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