{"id":949,"date":"2024-03-18T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerie-herbert-fort.com\/artiste\/jean-matrot-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:47:13","slug":"jean-matrot","status":"publish","type":"artiste","link":"https:\/\/www.galerie-herbert-fort.com\/en\/artiste\/jean-matrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Matrot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jean Matrot&#8217;s art begs the question : why paint what one can see ? or photograph ? Through his representation of scenes of daily life, he draws attention to moments of beauty that may be overlooked, underappreciated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full of vibrance and color, his paintings invite us to open our eyes to the surrounding world. Jean Matrot&#8217;s paintings and sculptures make us pause and really see, amidst our modern life is so saturated with images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This artist is more interested in reality than idealized life. He often includes urban furniture or electric lines, road signs&#8230; resulting in a very recognizable, personal experience for the observer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representing reality also implies than an artist&#8217;s work traces his own life experience, bringing it into another temporal dimension. Ultimately his paintings and sculptures fit together like pieces of a puzzle representing his own life. His favorite subjects are urban landscapes, although at times he enjoys escaping into portraiture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jean Matrot lives in Burgundy. Trained as an interior designer, he has drawn from a young age and experimented with different media before settling primarily on oil painting. More recently, he has become interested in volume work and created his first bronze sculptures as a complement to his paintings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil paintings French urban landscape and scenes from life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6250,"template":"","class_list":["post-949","artiste","type-artiste","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerie-herbert-fort.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerie-herbert-fort.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerie-herbert-fort.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artiste"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerie-herbert-fort.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerie-herbert-fort.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}