Marianne Brigitte Bardot
The 1st personality to embody Marianne
At the end of the 1960s, the sculptor Aslan made the audacious choice to give Marianne the features of Brigitte Bardot. The French were very enthusiastic about her and she became the first personality to embody Marianne.
A prerogative of official buildings like the three words Liberté Egalité Fraternité and the three colours of the blue, white and red flag, the bust of Marianne has been in keeping with the rhythm of history and fashion since 1789!
The creation of this exceptional series at the art workshop
" I paint and sculpt the woman, the most beautiful subject given to artists, because it is inexhaustible and eternal. To situate myself, I would define myself as a hyper-figurative intimate painter and sculptor. "
Alain Gourdon dit Aslan
Aslan, the female nude specialist
Aslan, or Alain Aslan, his real name Alain Gourdon is a French painter, illustrator and sculptor. He entered the Bordeaux Fine Arts School at the age of 14; he passed the entrance exam without any difficulty and won first prize in artistic anatomy at the university at the age of 15. The following year, he entered the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, benefiting from an age exemption thanks to the intervention of the painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue.
From 1963 to 1981, Aslan produced the famous pin-up paintings for Lui magazine, a work for which he will remain the best known. However, he was also an official army painter and sculptor and illustrator of children's books.
In 1968, Alain Aslan sculpted Brigitte Bardot as Marianne, this iconic work remains to this day the most famous bust of the symbolic figure of the French Republic.
