{"title":"Jacques Azéma","description":"\u003cp\u003eJacques Azéma (1910–1979) was a Parisian graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs who discovered Morocco at twenty. He explored the Sahara by motorcycle, then settled in Marrakech in 1930, where he led a simple life, far from the glitter of some wealthy expatriates, and remained faithful to Morocco for nearly fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe ran painting workshops and taught drawing at the Lycée Mangin in Marrakech, then, from 1962, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca, where he played a part in shaping a Moroccan school of painting. A tireless inventor of images, he painted, drew and photographed, working in gouache and in egg tempera, an ancient technique he revived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong and unjustly forgotten, his work has recently been rediscovered for its singular palette, strong formal identity and mysterious atmosphere. His friend, the painter Mustapha Mekkaoui, summed it up: \"Azéma is finesse and clarity, dream figures caught in a stillness that makes them eternal.\" His love of Morocco became his one and only subject.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/2088\/0442\/collections\/Jacques_Azema.jpg?v=1692705597","url":"https:\/\/moroccanpaintings.com\/en\/collections\/jacques-azema.oembed","provider":"Moroccan Paintings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}