Philippe Ouallet is a visual plastician artist, living in Paris. He started painting inspired by Jean-Yves Guionet, who taught him the foundations of his artistic movement: sensualism.
Sensualism is a philosophical doctrine which is itself inspired by empirism and promotes the idea that sensations, sensory and sensual are the origin of our knowledge and our ideas.
« [Je ne peins pas] avec des idées préconçues sur mon art. Je peins avec quelque chose de vécu. Ça devient mon contenu. »
Willem de Kooning
Philippe Ouallet carie on his plastic research following the same aesthetic. He develops this practice on his own, singularly and opened to other art forms such as painting, drawing, sculpture and photography.
His main inspirations are:
- Chaïm Soutine
- Joan Mitchell
- Willem de Kooning
- Eugène Leroy
- Roger-Edgar Gillet
- Karel Appel
- Michelle Destracq
- Miquel Barceló
- Frank Auerbach
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Lydie Arickx
