Essay in intuitive awareness by Philippe Benichou Lora’s Paradise ~ Watercolor on paper ~ © Philippe Benichou In my view, the understanding of abstract art is based on two main…
Artist Statement 2000-2020
PHILIPPE BENICHOU ~ ARTIST STATEMENT © 2000-2020 I was led to becoming an artist through a spiritual quest that began when I was a child and crystallised in the late…
On The Edge
Nancy di Benedetto on Artist Benichou. Historian & Lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Benichou is also an accomplished fine artist. He continues a distinguished family lineage since his mother, Arlette Oger, and his uncle, Jean Oger, were established artists in France, and influenced Philippe’s creativity at an early age.
Abstract Art is my Awakening
As an abstract artist I externalize on canvas what I am experiencing from within but cannot express in words. The forms, shapes, lines and colors that come out are no longer recognizable objects from my projected self-images, that is “what I think I know about myself and the world around me.”
Hello Universe!
I was led to become an artist through a spiritual quest as a child that crystallized in the mid to late 1990s. I never consciously intended to paint