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Henri Cadiou (March 26, 1906, Paris – April 6, 1989) was a 20th-century French realist painter and lithographer, best known for his work in trompe-l'œil painting. His trompe-l'œil paintings feature large groups of everyday objects depicted in a realistic style. He was also a painter of genre scenes.[1]
He is credited with being a founder, in 1949, of the Mouvement Trompe-l'œil-réalité,[2] a group which originally called itself the "Peintres de la Réalité."
The paintings Cadiou exhibited at the Salon de Mai of 1960, Shower Curtain and Electoral Panel in particular, caused a stir in the artistic community. [3] Formed already in 1949 as a general reaction against abstract art, the Mouvement Trompe-l'œil-réalité gained greater visibility as a result of this 1960 exhibition.
Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Cadiou, as well as other painters associated with the Mouvement Trompe-l'œil-réalité, as contemporary exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and North America have focused on these French painters along with other precursors to contemporary hyperrealism.
- ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists (2006). Cadiou Henri. Oxford University Press.
- ^ "Henri CADIOU Biographie". Hcadiou (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists (2006). Cadiou Henri. Oxford University Press.