Baret Boisson


      
        
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Baret Boisson's painting connects her love of nostalgia with a pioneering wit, creating contemporary portraiture that captures her subjects with a broad range of idiosyncratic detail and uncompromising humor. Her work recalls the neo-Colonial, two-dimensional imagery, but she doesn't rest on previously established artistic conventions; her subjects range from Rosa Parks to Elizabeth Taylor, Muhammed Ali to her beloved Lab mix, Lucky.

From her risk-taking "Great Americans" series to commissioned works for Sumner Redstone, Jimmy Fallon, Jane Pratt, Elizabeth Taylor and many of Hollywood's most noteworthy stars, Baret uses her paintbrush to capture her subjects' personality, incorporating spectacular color and clever text.


Baret's meticulously rendered portraits are stylistically reminiscent of the iternerant painters of early American Folk art. She captures her sitter's spirit through their eyes and with a few carefully chosen props and a vivid and bold color palette. She is a contemporary American folk artist with a unique gift of communication and a beautiful sense of color and patterning. Like the great folk portrait painter Ammi Phillips, her work has the naive brilliance of a self-taught artist. With a client list that includes some of the worlds most famous celebrities, all get the same whimsical and incisive treatment from her beloved dog Lucky to Elizabeth Taylor!

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