10 Facts About Jacques Benoit

Jacques Benoit was born on 22 June 1955 and is a French painter.

Jacques Benoit attended high school at Orleans and Nice, eventually settling in Paris, where he studied Graphic Arts at the Met de Penninghen Art School in the early 1970s.

Since the late 1990s, Jacques Benoit's work has been mostly inspired by Modern Architecture, including its Brazilian branch.

Thirty years later, Jacques Benoit contributed to the Elton John AIDS Foundation by offering the singer a painting especially made for him, inspired by his composition Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes from his 2001 album Songs from the West Coast.

Passionate about the music of the Canadian composer and singer Joni Mitchell, Jacques Benoit produced, between 1977 and 1989, a series of works inspired by a selection of fifty poems drawn from her albums from Song to a Seagull through Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm.

In 1997, Jacques Benoit exhibited in Paris his first series of paintings inspired by the city of Brasilia.

Jacques Benoit decided to host Benoit's next exhibition, Three Traces Oscar, in the party's headquarters, designed by Niemeyer himself.

In 2003, Jacques Benoit produced two canvases, Orly, inspired by the Orly Airport in Paris.

Jacques Benoit was not back to the Orly phase until 2008, as he created a series of 11 new paintings under the influence of the jazz singer Shirley Horn, the soundtrack Miles Davis composed for Louis Malle's film, Lift to the Scaffold, and the soundtracks of Claude Lelouch's films Live for Life and A Man and a Woman, both composed by Francis Lai.

Since then Jacques Benoit has been working on a sequel to Orly, with a new series of paintings inspired by Vicariot's works.