Extreme Art is the ability to communicate
corporate messages in the form of exciting artistic presentations. Jean
Francois' Extreme Art presentations are the choice of leading corporations
to motivate, energize and inspire their employees at meetings and conventions.
Keynote Speeches - Customized Programs
- Creative Workshops - Entertainment Shows - Unique General Sessions
- Product Launches - Wake-up Morning Meetings ...
Jean Francois offers
four distinctly different programs, each one designed to match the
character of your event or promotion.
Bio
French action painter and performer Jean Francois Detaille removes painting
from the realm of studios and galleries and transforms it into high-energy
public entertainment. His tour de force combines comedy and art in a unique
show choreographed to music, bringing joie de vivre to audiences around the
world.
Jean Francois has performed in Las Vegas productions
at MGM Grand, Caesars Palace, Bally's and New York, New York as well
as at corporate events and conventions for Sun Micro Systems, Du Pont,
Oracle, Cisco Systems, Verizon and many more. He has also performed at
private functions for Prince Charles, the Grimaldi family, Pope John
II, the Sultan of Brunei and others.
Luminaries like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan,
Luciano Pavarotti, Enzo Ferrari, Presidents Clinton and Bush, Bill Gates,
Larry Ellison and many more members of the creme de la creme have been
immortalized on canvas by Jean Francois. He's also painted interpretations
of corporate images and logos for IBM, Sun Microsystems, Coors, Moet
et Chandon, Cartier and others.
Jean Francois offers Extreme Keynotes, a highly
motivational keynote program based on the fundamentals of creativity.
Awaken your inner artist! Click here to visit the new Extreme Keynotes
website.
Born in Namur, Belgium, Jean Francois Detaille
discovered his passion for art at an early age. Painting was his father's
hobby, and on vacations with his parents in Spain and the South of France
Jean Francois would watch the local artists create on-the-spot portraits
for tourists. In 1975, after a chance meeting in Figueras, Spain with
the flamboyant artist Salvador Dali, Jean Francois realized that the
quiet life of the studio artist was not for him.
In 1976 he enrolled in the Academy of Beaux
Art in Belgium - best known as the school of painters Jan van Eyck, Brueghel,
Rubens, Magritte, James Ensor, Alechinsky and others - to develop his
talent along more formal lines. Upon completion, he enrolled in the Academy
des Beaux Arts de Paris, known over the years as the birthplace of numerous
art movements, the base of Academic painters Messonier and Jean Baptiste
Edouard Detaille, and the school of impressionist painters Claude Monet,
Vincent van Gogh, Jean Francois Millet, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse,
cubist Pablo Picasso, surrealist Salvador Dali, conceptual artist Ben
Wautier and performance artist Yves Klein.
Jean Francois' desire for adventure led him
to travel widely. In 1982, he packed his bags and art supplies and traveled
around the world on a sailboat, painting thousands of paintings along
the way. The Caribbean, Hawaii and Tahiti were his new themes and his
boat made a perfect studio.
"I always painted in front of an audience
to music. In school I was faster than everybody else", says Jean
Francois. Searching for a methodology that would harness his technical
skills and allow a rapid, spontaneous style of work, he created Extreme
Art in the early 1990's. Working with explosive energy and without preliminary
plans or sketches, Jean Francois uses forceful strokes of vibrant color
to fill large canvases in minutes. He explains that working at this rapid
pace opens a more direct channel between the image in his mind and the
motions of his hands, giving the finished work greater immediacy and
power.
In 1997 Jean Francois was asked to perform
in the show "Madhattan" at the New York New York Hotel & Casino
in Las Vegas. That engagement resulted in other invitations from producers
and event planners in several countries. In 2000, he was named the Spotlight
Awards Entertainer of the Year for the special/corporate event market.
What people Are
Saying
"A work of art before your very eyes"
- Kenneth Feld Feld Entertainment
"Thank you from the bottom of our hearts
for allowing us to be part of your show."
- Myron Martin, Producer, Las Vegas Salutes the Spirit of America, a benefit
for the USO
"Your salute to America was fantastic
!"
- Paul Stratton CEM, Special Event Magazine show director
"You and your staff are stars on the
national event scene and your hard work has made fantastic memories for
hundreds of your peers !"
- Betsy Wiersma, CSEP Special Event Magazine 2002
"When it comes to showtime, no one delivers
more than Jean Francois"
- Scott Washburn, Baskow Associates
"It was fantastic to see what was created
from your energetic and unique painting style"
- Martin Van Keken, MVK Productions
"Jean Francois was able to sculpt and
deliver the exact vision my client and I had..."
- Steve Kemble, Event Design
"Your performance at the Spotlight awards
was spectacular!"
- John Barragona, Event Solutions Magazine
" Jean Francois brings a standing ovation
to this uplifting finale"
- Michael Paskevich, Las Vegas Review Journal
"The most exciting performer on the Las
Vegas strip"
- Linda Smith, Concert of Love
"Your professionalism during rehearsal
and performance of Concert of Love made our job much easier.."
- Dick Foster, Producer, Las Vegas
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