DIGITAL MAGAZINE FOR CREATIVE ARTISTS
InPrint Magazine June - August 2013
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Pierre-Paul
Pariseau
It’s been more than twenty years now that I enjoy a career as an artist and illustrator. My mixed media images have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers; on book covers, posters, greeting cards, CDs and a children’s book.
sible with my girlfriend What is your philosophy and friends. when it comes to arts? “Art is what makes life more inWho and what teresting than art”. This is not from me but from Robert Filloux. inspires you? My big influence was, at the beArt is important but should not ginning, the surrealist artists be taken too seriously. Some of like Dali, Magritte, and others. Everything that was surrealist, it is definitively overpriced. in painting but also in literature, in poetry and in movies. PhotoWhen you are not montage pioneers also like John creating you are? Heartfield, Max Ernst, Jacques Promoting my artworks, read- Prévert. Rapidly although I being, bicycling, watching movies, came inspired by a lot of things spending as much time as pos- coming my way, in my surround-
ings, to a point that it is difficult to name anything in particular. I always carry on me a notebook in which I can write (mainly) and draw ideas for new images, for titles of work, etc. In other words, everything that touches me is inspiring me, artistic or not. TV, Ipad, or none? None of those, but my Imac. I do not watch much TV but watch many interesting things on the Internet.
What is the design artistic world lacking these days? Not enough jobs for all the illustrators there are.
What is your idea of a perfect day? A day in my studio.
What plays on Tell us something your itunes? curious about you nobody Mainly pop, rock, electronic, would guess. hip-hop, jazz. I have a Milli Vanilli song on my Ipod. Tell us one thing in your life you can't live without. If you had the power to There are many things I can’t change anything for one day live without, these are the things what would it be? I would elimi- which are essential to life, like nate fear. Everything is possible love, eating, drinking, etc. But I then. wouldn't be able to live well without my computer as it is with it
that I can earn a living. Unless we go back in time and live all without computers, then I could go back doing my collages with scissors, paper and glue, like I did at the beginning of my career.
more about the artist
pierrepaulpariseau.com saatchionline.com/pariseau behance.net/pierrepaulpariseau
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