ROBERT COMBAS

Been born to Lyon May 25 1957 Screws and works to Ivry-sur-Seine.

It passes his childhood and his adolescence to Sète. Graduate of the School of the fine arts of Montpellier, it is the instigator of the "Free Extras" such as named it Well in the years 80, movement grouping together: Rémi Blanchard, François Boisrond, Robert Combas and Said Hervé Rosa. His art prohibitionist the popular culture and to the rock music. The themes are people life, sexuality, the violence. In a way, his paint can come close to itself the artists graffitistes. She inspires herself rock one of which the artist is an avid end, popular pictures, books of childhood, school manuals of all what does an accessible popular culture to all. This paint done liberties talks about the corporation, violence, sexuality, suffering of the people, of their small happinesses, of their littleness, of their magnitude...

"Me, I work sometimes abstracts by paint throws, a sort of abstracted expressionnisme. The figurative one this is the funny side, foot on earth; at the start it was a derisory reaction against the intellectual paints of the environment of the art of the years 70. Me I come from the popular environment, I lived in two different worlds. There is nonetheless messages in my paint: at the start this is a certain energy, I wanted to paint what I wanted. In the B.D one is jammed by the personages, while, in this paint, I am free completely free, even by the format. "

"The Free Extras, this is to do what one wants the most possible one, the most personally, the most freely."