Paul Guy Gantner

Works
  • Paul Guy Gantner, All Around the Blooming Heather
    All Around the Blooming Heather
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Among the Wildflowers
    Among the Wildflowers
  • Paul Guy Gantner, An Invitation
    An Invitation
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Beyond the Garden Gate
    Beyond the Garden Gate
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Crimson Tracks
    Crimson Tracks
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Days of Vibrancy
    Days of Vibrancy
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Fleurs de Beaute
    Fleurs de Beaute
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Fontana d'Italia
    Fontana d'Italia
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Garden Boulevard
    Garden Boulevard
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Garden of Solace
    Garden of Solace
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Giardino de Flore
    Giardino de Flore
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Golden Hour
    Golden Hour
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Morning Walk in Antibes
    Morning Walk in Antibes
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Nature's Elegance
    Nature's Elegance
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Path into the Woods
    Path into the Woods
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Poppies Along the Way
    Poppies Along the Way
  • Paul Guy Gantner, The Luminant Path
    The Luminant Path
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Trees
    Trees
  • Paul Guy Gantner, Tuscan Morning
    Tuscan Morning
  • Paul Guy Gantner, View Across the Meadow
    View Across the Meadow
Biography

Gantner was born in 1948 in Seoul, South Korea. He was instantaneously attracted to color and form. By the age of 12 he was attempting to recreate his universe through the medium of paint. Gantner is primarily a self-taught artist. His passion for the Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists was responsible for his move to France. This allowed him to freely study their work and to explore their universe. The majority of Gantner's paintings are set in Provence and the Midi. The artist's fascination with quaint mountain villages with their narrow, winding streets becomes a perfect vehicle for the true subject of his work's solitude. Gantner's paintings are visual records of absence. This theme is reinforced through the artist's use of confined luminous and shadowed spaces that are defined and contained by vertical walls of stone. Even when the painting is not of a narrow village street, solitude and absence are still present. Trained in the Impressionist vein, Gantner has resolved the age-old Poussiniste-Rubeniste conflict by combining the strengths and qualities of line with color. This is apparent in Gantner's return to Giverny to repaint Monet's Japanese bridge and waterlilies. The spontaneous quality that defined the impressionism of Monet has given way to a painted drawing that is a controlled application of color structured within a strong linear composition.