Pierre Alfred Cornu - Artist Info

About Pierre Alfred Cornu

  • Biography

    The women in the glare of their youth, in love with Provence of which the light magnificent colors, its optimistic and serene visions of existence enabled him to create a voluptuous and soft paintings.

    Cornu’s taste for the female beauty should not make us forget that he was a talented portraitist and an excellent painter of nature, especially of flowers and landscapes. In fact, in all these genre, the only motivation worthy of his interest in his eyes was the beauty, that he discovered in order to idealize it and to perpetuate it.

    Like Bonnard, Cornu seems to have painted not only for his love of painting but he also wished to retain, to show and share happy moments.fully devote it to his true passion painting.

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