Alexis Made in France
Alexis Raoult was born in the Paris region in 1993. Young artist with an atypical career, at 16, he entered a professional high school «Les Orphelins d'Auteuil», for young people in difficulty. He was taught electricity. He spent his time drawing on his notebooks. At 18, he left everything and moved to Brittany. He then lived in small jobs, always scribbling notebooks. Since 2012, he has devoted himself to drawing and speaks of a «sequence of emotions». Drawing is what makes him vibrate. Since 2017, he has specialized in animal drawing. His very realistic representations, only in pencil, in black and white, bring out the emotions, the intelligence, as well as the sensitivity of the wild animals.
Alexis Raoult sublimates the animal portrait
It is through his drawings of an extraordinary realism that Alexis Raoult expresses himself, and speaks of what touches him, especially the animal cause. His black and white works, made only with pencil and posca, emit such intensity that the spectator is literally transported, as if he were facing the animal depicted. The artist transcribes with great accuracy and emotion the sensitivity of his models through their gaze and attitude, delivering a palpable emotion.
Where does your passion for drawing come from?
He has always more or less penciled on notebooks. And even if nothing predestined him to become a cartoonist, he took pleasure in escaping through his drawings. By his majority, he began to chew faces and then tested the painting that inspired him more and he began to make on canvas his famous portraits, especially of famous personalities. It was only afterwards that he returned to drawing, an art of choice for him, with the sole aim of transcribing with maximum realism my subjects. It was during his meeting with the photographer Lambert Davis and the discovery of one of his photos that the animal portrait was imposed. The monkey of his cliché had such an intense look that it was a click. He accepted that he reproduced it in drawing. This collaboration continues today and the desire to transcribe the emotions of animals has not left him. he then collaborated with other photographers. But since 2020, he has made his drawings based on his own photos… and he continues to perfect himself in realism.
