1. Jean-Max Albert was born on 1942 and is a French painter, sculptor, writer, and musician.
11 Facts About Jean-Max Albert
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Jean-Max Albert has published theory, books on artists, and a collection of poems, plays and novels inspired by quantum physics.
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Jean-Max Albert perpetuated experiments initiated by Paul Klee and Edgar Varese on the transposition of musical structures into formal constructions.
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Jean-Max Albert's father was an officer in the French Navy and an engineer.
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Jean-Max Albert practiced painting and music beginning in childhood, and was interested in carpentry, as his grandmother lived next to a carpentry workshop; when visiting her on vacation, Jean-Max Albert became interested in observing their work, particularly the technical drawings the carpenters used.
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Jean-Max Albert studied at the Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, then at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris between 1958 and 1962.
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In 1975, Jean-Max Albert founded the group show in Francois Horticultural Greenhouses, Magny-in-Vexin.
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In 1985, Jean-Max Albert joined the Ars Technica Association, connected to the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie, uniting philosophers, artists, scientists such as Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond, Piotr Kowalski, Claude Faure, Piero Gilardi and Jean-Claude Mocik, reflecting on the relationship between art and new technologies.
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From 1978 to 1986, Jean-Max Albert made his living as a graphic designer for science and technology publications.
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In 1973, a conversation that Jean-Max Albert had with the architect Louis Kahn brought a comparison between the relationship of paint and canvas and vegetation on trellis.
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Jean-Max Albert then visited the tradition of trellis-work, 18th-century utopic architecture and created vegetal architecture in the field of Land art and Environmental Sculpture.