Jacques de Beaufort

"Andromeda" w Clare Buckland

2012-01-27T22:41:00.001-08:00

Jacques de Beaufort

study for painting

"Selene" w Kira Alvarado

2012-01-27T16:01:00.000-08:00

Jacques de Beaufort
Kira Alvarado

Jacques de Beaufort

new painting-final* version

2012-01-23T21:14:00.000-08:00

jacquesdebeaufort.com

Jacques de Beaufort

Jacques de Beaufort: new website

2011-12-28T17:27:00.000-08:00

jacquesdebeaufort.com

Jacques de Beaufort

John David Ebert talks with me about "The New Media Invasion"

2011-12-17T10:02:00.000-08:00

John David Ebert
Jacques de Beaufort

Jacques de Beaufort: 'Eos' with Kira Alvarado

2011-11-22T21:13:00.000-08:00

‘Eos” by Jacques de Beaufort w/Kira Alvarado

Jacques de Beaufort Kira Alvarado Eos

EOS

studio

2011-11-03T21:09:00.000-07:00

Jacques de Beaufort

In Progress

2011-10-23T19:00:00.001-07:00

gettin’ there…..

Jacques de Beaufort w/Kira Alvarado

Interviewed by a Ghost in the Fall edition of L’Allure des Mots.

2011-09-30T22:26:00.000-07:00

Interviewed by a Ghost in the Fall edition of L’Allure des Mots.

Jacques de Beaufort | Art Takes Miami 2011

2011-09-26T13:51:00.000-07:00

Jacques de Beaufort | Art Takes Miami 2011

uh,….hi bloggers.. can you guys vote for me on this thing so I can show in the SCOPE Fair? Just click on the link above. be super duper aprreciative!

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Jacques de Beaufort | Art Takes Miami 2011

Jacques de Beaufort: new work

2011-09-10T09:32:00.000-07:00

"Astarte"

w/ Katherine Villari

Jacques de Beaufort

Akhenaten

2011-08-11T23:14:00.000-07:00

Jean Hippolyte Flandrin, "Madame Louis Antoine de Cambourg" 1846

2011-08-06T21:56:00.000-07:00

The Minotaur

2011-08-03T12:03:00.000-07:00

Modigliani

2011-07-09T19:19:00.000-07:00

wall view from “Mid Summer Pop Up”

2011-06-26T08:20:00.000-07:00

Sibel Kocabasi
Jacques de Beaufort

local pride

2011-06-21T20:10:00.000-07:00

“Mid Summer POP UP”

Is an alternative space exhibition will be a one week only presentation for emerging/established artists from south Florida who will exhibit their work in a POP-Up gallery / alternative space.

“Mid Summer Pop Up” is an attempt by local artists to provide a needed venue in Palm Beach County for current, contemporary art / artists. The show will feature installations as well as 2D and 3D contemporary Art.

The exhibition will open on June/25/2011. 5pm until 10pm

At 2602 PGA Blvd, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410, and will remain open until July2.

The place is on PGA, east of the Palm Beach State College,

in a plaza on the south west corner of Prosperity Farms and PGA..

“Mid Summer Pop Up” is curated by Sibel Kocabasi.

Produced by Deja New Gallery.

Featured artists are:

ALETTE SIMMONS JIMENEZ, AMY GROSS, CAROLYN SICKLES, DAN LEAHY, FREDDY JOUWAYED, ISABEL GOUVEIA, JACEK GANCARZ, JACKIE TUFFORD, JACQUES DE BEAUFORT, MAXINE SPECTOR, NANCY SAN PEDRO, NUNE ASATRYAN, SAM PERRY, SARAH KNUDTSON, SIBEL KOCABASI, SKIP MEASELLE, STEPHAN TUGRUL, RYAN TOTH.

Interviewed by Anthea Joy Simpson

2011-06-16T20:12:00.000-07:00

Anthea Joy Simpson of Melbourne, Australia recently sent me some questions about my work. I thought they were pretty great so posted my answers below. I'm not sure if this will be ending up on a blog or in a magazine somewhere, but here it is now:

You have written on your website about the relation between (your) art and the psychopomps of the spiritual world, and you say that these psychopomps are able to ‘restore psychic order and bring forth a deeper level of consciousness and clarity’ –

Q: Would you say that you have very specific relationships with these psychopomps in the sense that they are particular individualised beings with whom you frequently commune?

No, absolutely not. The paintings are like “psychopomps” in the sense that they mediate two very different modes of experience. The figures in my work are more like ideas than actual people or beings. They are real in the sense that a Greek God or Hindu Deity is real. I would even go so far to say that they are as real as world leaders like Barack Obama, someone who has an actual life and identity, but who’s presence is stronger in the realm of archetypes. I guess you frequently commune with Obama when you see him on the television, but your relationship is not personal.

So no, I am not a “medium” for them.

Q: In restoring psychic order or gaining a deeper clarity and consciousness, is that a therapeutic process only for you as the artist, or is that also for these spirit beings as well?

I’m not really sure about what goes on in the spirit world, I would imagine that someone/something up there has an awareness of me and my work and the work of other artists, but I don’t imagine it as the sort of place in which narrative exists in real time. It is outside of time as we experience it.

For me making art is not really therapeutic as much as it is necessary. It is a means of understanding images in a way that you cannot when you are not making them. You don’t really see someone’s face until you try to paint it. You perceive it, but you do not see it. And so it is with every subject.

I think that all art is sort of therapeutic in some sense. But the patient is human civilization .

Q: Do you think the psychopomps kind of, ‘knock on your consciousness’ in order to attain your audience/attention for the purpose of their own self expression through you as a channel?

I think that Eros is a powerful force, as is Thanatos. I think about these forces or experience them working on me at all times. But no, I do not channel them directly. My work is Shamanistic only in the broadest sense, I am not a guru or representative of some sort of logos or cosmic intelligence. I think it would be pretty arrogant to make this claim, and most people that do seem to be somewhat fraudulent. The most I would say is that I make real what otherwise is merely a potential-an entelechy.

A channel that announces itself as such immediately closes the door.

In one brief text/chat exchange we had, I suggested that when you are painting, it may be like a ‘conversation’ –
Q: Would you say that is an accurate way to describe what is happening?

I think there is a conversation with the painting. As it is evolving it seems to offer you with certain paths or drags out other passages. It’s more like a series of consecutive possibilities than a conversation though. Maybe more like a chess game.

Q: If so, are these conversations between yourself and the psychopomps very clear and conscious?

No.

Q: Would you say that when you are painting, the process is completely intuitive?

It is highly intuitive. But the intuitions guide technical skills that are more analytic and evaluative.

Q: How much does your ‘rational, critical mind’ engage in the process?

Mostly in the planning stage or after the work is done.

Q: Do you ever struggle, argue, wrestle or battle with your works as they are coming into being?

If they are difficult technically, yes. I often feel like a painting is kicking my ass, fighting with me, refusing to come forward easily. Sometimes I feel like the painting has won, and I just walk away with a sense of defeat-with the feeling that the work doesn’t wish to come into being. Usually I am relentless and tire it down. I have enormous patience and will work for months on something if necessary. Eventually I catch it.

Q: How much of your creation is under your own conscious control? In terms of theme/form/colour/texture? Or, are you in a state of total surrender to it?

The aesthetic decisions are pretty intuitive. My skills have grown over time. Some stuff I can’t really explain how to do-some things can’t really be taught. But again, its not a surrender in a sort of automatic sense, its more like it just comes forward from me. My color choices are who I am. I am not disassociated from them.

Q: Do you consider yourself to be producing these artworks for only yourself? Or – are they also for other people, for the psychopomps and other spiritual beings?

The paintings are for anyone with eyes. Hopefully that answers your question.

Q: Do you consider your work as a kind of ‘service to humanity’ or to Spiritual beings at all?

No, I’m not that arrogant. That sounds like something a Conceptual Artist would say.

Q: Do you consider yourself to have a certain ‘responsibility’ in terms of how you use your talent? Like, a social and/or spiritual responsibility?

Most talented people never become famous to the point where their work really matters beyond the handful of people that are aware of it. I don’t think I’ve passed that point, and actually this could be said of even the more “well known” artists that show at Blue Chip galleries on the global scene. They are not widely know outside of a group of specialists, only a few visual artists ever break into the wider popular consciousness.

I think that while many people find my work enchanting or fascinating, others find it unsettling. These people might feel that I am shirking my responsibility to ostensibly make art for a larger audience, work that is more for the “general public”. This makes me sad.

People seem to search out things that amplify their own pre-existing personalities, beliefs, and sensibilities and to block out that which confounds them. But it’s actually good for people when they are perplexed by things-it means that they will think a little, or feel something that they didn’t feel. If art can do anything it is to shine a light upon that which has been unexamined, to make visible the invisible, and to ultimately help us understand who we are.

I love work that is full of unmitigated joy and visual delight, I mean who doesn't ? But if art was ONLY overflowing beds of lush and verdant flora-or paintings of unbelievably super-cute kittens and puppies, I think it would be committing a grave crime against humanity. It would fail in its duty to express the full range of human existence. If I have any social responsibility as an artist it is to be honest to my own experience of being human and to try to communicate this experience without thinking about whom it will or will not please. Taste is fickle and impossible to satisfy, you have to realize that the ability to please everyone is possessed by no man. But this is actually why and how art can be so powerful, because just as it pleases us so much- it does sometimes displease.

June 16, 2011

Jacques de Beaufort

recent press

2011-06-12T18:52:00.001-07:00

now looks like this....

2011-06-04T14:02:00.001-07:00

unfinished painting circa 2008

2011-05-27T12:58:00.000-07:00

jacques de beaufort

Jacques de Beaufort : New Work

2011-05-15T10:55:00.000-07:00

Jacques de Beaufort

"Melpomene"

process shots:

Katherine Villari

Kat

Jacques de Beaufort

Glenn Brown

2011-05-13T12:08:00.000-07:00

Lisa Yuskavage

2011-05-13T12:06:00.000-07:00

Baldung Grien

2011-05-06T20:48:00.000-07:00

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

2011-05-05T21:04:00.000-07:00

Pavel Tchelitchew

2011-05-01T10:36:00.000-07:00

Romaine Brooks

2011-04-27T17:42:00.000-07:00

touched this one up a bit

2011-04-22T09:48:00.000-07:00

Jacques de Beaufort

Simonetta Vespucci

2011-04-21T20:15:00.000-07:00

"At her funeral, her face was uncovered so that all might see her beauty, which was even greater in death than it had been in life". Sforza Bettini, government minister.

Simonetta Vespucci was considered to be the most beautiful woman in Florence, perhaps in all of Italy. Hers was the face that served as Muse for many fantastic known works, and many we'll never know or see.

It is said that every man in Florence was in love with her, and in her short life her beauty made her truly immortal. La Bella Simonetta married into the prominent Vespucci family and moved to Florence in 1474 at around age 15. Botticelli discovered her and became essentially obsessed with painting her. Among painters, poets, and composers she developed an almost cult-like following, both during her lifetime and after her death.

Theodore Chasseriau

2011-04-21T20:08:00.000-07:00

Francesco Hayez

2011-04-21T20:04:00.000-07:00

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

2011-04-21T19:58:00.000-07:00

Guido Reni

2011-04-21T19:49:00.000-07:00

Piero di Cosimo

2011-04-21T19:38:00.000-07:00

moth

2011-04-16T20:00:00.000-07:00

new work

2011-04-15T08:43:00.000-07:00

Jacques de Beaufort

Alphonse Mucha

2011-04-14T19:32:00.000-07:00

Alexandre Cabanel

2011-04-14T19:09:00.000-07:00

Eugene-Emmanuel Amaury-Duval

2011-04-14T11:46:00.001-07:00

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

2011-04-14T11:42:00.000-07:00

John William Godward

2011-04-14T11:36:00.000-07:00

John William Godward (August 9, 1861 – December 13, 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite / Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of painters like Picasso. He committed suicide at the age of 61 and is said to have written in his suicide note that "the world was not big enough" for him and a Picasso. His already estranged family, who had disapproved of him becoming an artist, were ashamed of his suicide and burned his papers. No photographs of Godward are known to survive. Godward was born in 1861 and lived in Wilton Grove, Wimbledon. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1887. When he moved to Italy with one of his models in 1912, his family broke off all contact with him and even cut his image from family pictures. Godward returned to England in 1919, died in 1922 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, west London.

Charles Gleyre

2011-04-14T11:33:00.000-07:00

Lord Frederic Leighton

2011-04-13T15:41:00.000-07:00

Rachel Ruysch

2011-04-12T17:13:00.000-07:00

Sebastiano Ricci

2011-04-12T12:09:00.000-07:00

Vermeer

2011-04-10T19:28:00.000-07:00

Hendrick ter Brugghen

2011-04-07T08:45:00.000-07:00

Dirck van Baburen

2011-04-07T08:40:00.000-07:00

I'm getting really interested in owls...

2011-04-02T20:00:00.000-07:00

assorted folly

2011-04-01T20:09:00.000-07:00

Jodocus a Winghe

2011-04-01T20:06:00.000-07:00

Annibale Carracci

2011-03-31T17:52:00.001-07:00

Bathsheba

2011-03-31T12:04:00.000-07:00

Enguerrand Quarton

2011-03-29T05:46:00.000-07:00

I LED THREE LIVES! - Grails

2011-03-28T18:08:00.001-07:00

Gerald Davis

2011-03-19T12:36:00.000-07:00

New Gerald Davis work looks pretty great.

He's starting to look like Pontormo in his hermit phase, but we only have Vasari's word for that.

see here

in progress

2011-03-17T04:51:00.001-07:00

Three Graces

2011-03-15T20:24:00.000-07:00

New Work

2011-03-08T09:45:00.000-08:00

Jacques de Beaufort

ψυχοπομπ?ς (Psychopompos)

Psychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός (psychopompos), literally meaning the "guide of souls") are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply provide safe passage. Frequently depicted on funerary art, psychopomps have been associated at different times and in different cultures with horses, Whip-poor-wills, ravens, dogs, crows, owls, sparrows, cuckoos, and harts.

In Jungian psychology, the psychopomp is a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms. It is symbolically personified in dreams as a wise man or woman, or sometimes as a helpful animal. In many cultures, the shaman also fulfills the role of the psychopomp. This may include not only accompanying the soul of the dead, but also vice versa: to help at birth, to introduce the newborn child's soul to the world. This also accounts for the contemporary title of "midwife to the dying," which is another form of psychopomp work.

List by mythology or belief system

Anglo-Saxon

Wōden

Celtic

Christianity (Roman Catholicism)

Saint Barbara (a virgin martyr and one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers; said to bring Holy Communion to the dying)
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
St. Michael (an archangel)
St. Peter (an apostle of God)
John the Baptist (a prophet of God)
Azrael (an angel of death)
Angels

Egyptian

Greek

Hinduism

Inuit

Islam

Azrael

Japanese

Shinigami

Judaism

Abraham (a patriarch of God)
Gabriel (an archangel)
Elijah / Sandalphon (a prophet / an archangel)

Korean

Jeoseung Saja

Norse

Persian

Mithra

Polynesian

Aumakua

Roman

Mercury

Volos

Vodun

Zoroastrianism

Jacques de Beaufort

Narcissus

2011-03-07T18:25:00.000-08:00

Valueva

2011-03-06T11:55:00.000-08:00

Man Ray

2011-03-04T19:56:00.000-08:00

Andrea del Sarto

2011-03-02T20:03:00.000-08:00

Antoine-Jean Gros

2011-03-02T05:19:00.001-08:00

Faa Iheihe

2011-02-27T15:03:00.000-08:00

Orazio Riminaldi

2011-02-27T01:18:00.000-08:00

Jacques Callot

2011-02-27T00:56:00.000-08:00

Ernst Fuchs (2)

2011-02-27T00:46:00.000-08:00

Ernst Fuchs

2011-02-25T20:48:00.000-08:00

36

2011-02-16T20:48:00.001-08:00

Jacques de Beaufort

Hans Baldung Grien

2011-02-13T14:03:00.000-08:00

Michelangelo

2011-02-10T17:52:00.000-08:00

John Currin

2011-02-09T16:06:00.000-08:00

Jacques de Beaufort

"Andromeda" w Clare Buckland

"Selene" w Kira Alvarado

new painting-final* version

Jacques de Beaufort: new website

John David Ebert talks with me about "The New Media Invasion"

Jacques de Beaufort: 'Eos' with Kira Alvarado

studio

In Progress

Interviewed by a Ghost in the Fall edition of L’Allure des Mots.

Jacques de Beaufort | Art Takes Miami 2011

Jacques de Beaufort | Art Takes Miami 2011

Jacques de Beaufort | Art Takes Miami 2011

Jacques de Beaufort: new work

Akhenaten

Jean Hippolyte Flandrin, "Madame Louis Antoine de Cambourg" 1846

The Minotaur

Modigliani

wall view from “Mid Summer Pop Up”

local pride

Interviewed by Anthea Joy Simpson

recent press

now looks like this....

unfinished painting circa 2008

Jacques de Beaufort : New Work

Glenn Brown

Lisa Yuskavage

Baldung Grien

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pavel Tchelitchew

Romaine Brooks

touched this one up a bit

Simonetta Vespucci

Theodore Chasseriau

Francesco Hayez

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Guido Reni

Piero di Cosimo

moth

new work

Alphonse Mucha

Alexandre Cabanel

Eugene-Emmanuel Amaury-Duval

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

John William Godward

Charles Gleyre

Lord Frederic Leighton

Rachel Ruysch

Sebastiano Ricci

Vermeer

Hendrick ter Brugghen

Dirck van Baburen

I'm getting really interested in owls...

assorted folly

Jodocus a Winghe

Annibale Carracci

Bathsheba

Enguerrand Quarton

I LED THREE LIVES! - Grails

Gerald Davis

in progress

Three Graces

New Work

List by mythology or belief system

Anglo-Saxon

Celtic

Christianity (Roman Catholicism)

Egyptian

Greek

Hinduism

Inuit

Islam

Japanese

Judaism

Korean

Mayan

Mesopotamian

Native American

Norse

Persian