Gérard SCHNEIDER

"The abstract is the liberation of all external conditioning, it is the culmination of a process of individual creation, of personal development whose forms only belong to me. I would assimilate this process into musical improvisation." 

A key figure in lyrical abstraction and the Nouvelle École de Paris, Gérard Ernest Schneider is a painter of Swiss origin. Gérard Schneider's art is distinguished by its gesturality in which the artist does not hesitate to make shapes and colors explode with force, emotion, and passion. The gesture is essential, the lines of the brush attempt to capture the fleeting moment and exalt a chromaticism served by a dense and rich paste. For Schneider, painting on canvas is as powerful as painting on paper.