ao Wou-Ki learnt painting at the fine art school of Hangzhou and he started oil from the sixth year. Asian people insist on drawing (and they are more fair
about water and paper than Occidentals). His resume of the role of Painting is a Must (
George Braque was already on the same path) :
« People believe that painting and writing aim to reproduce the shapes and likeness. No, the brush is used to uncover things from chaos ».
When he started painting, Yvo Jacquier was not yet initiated to the thoughts of George Braque nor to the beauty of the Asian culture. Nevertheless, he
pertained for 20 years an artistic activity as a graphical drawer and a watercolorist. An intriguing aspect is that he naturally holds his brushes in an
Asian position, and his guitar with a classical attitude prior to any instruction or learning.
« Intelligence is less a matter of school than a matter of care ».
Oil painting techniques are more about the support, the linen, than about the chemical materials. Contemporary painters generally start by using acrylic
in order to begin their work. The last coats will be executed with oil based colors and no other technique can get close to the vivid effects of its
final result. The transparency of the glazing allows the observer to feel the light in the background. This property can remind the one found in
watercolor works.
To prepare the third millennium (and the birth of his daughter), Yvo Jacquier translated his experience of the paper on the canvas in less than one month.
Nothing special : he had already mixed the materials, eg with the gouache : another kind of composition.