01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 54

Jean-François Arrigoni Neri

FANTASIA DANS LE SUD MAROCAIN 

FANTASIA IN SOUTH MOROCCO

Oil on canvas

65 x 50 cm

Private collection

Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. "Fantasia" is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud.

The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same speed so as to form a line, and then at the end of the charge (about two hundred meters) fire into the sky using old muskets or muzzle-loading rifles The difficulty of the performance is in synchronizing the movement of the horses during acceleration of the charge, and especially in firing the guns simultaneously so that one single shot is heard. The horse is referred to as a fantasia horse and are of Arabian, Andalusian or Barb stock. More on Fantasia 

Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and dead the November 23 , 20141 is a  French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer.

In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d'Engraving. After working for ten years as an engraver, he became an illustrator for various Parisian advertising studios. In 1963 in Ivry-sur-Seine , on the occasion of one of the first exhibitions in which he participated, the National Directorate of Fine Arts in Paris bought him a canvas (marine, representing the port of Lorient).

In 1969, he worked as an independent illustrator. For more than twenty years, he directed advertising campaigns for French brands or major sporting events. 

In the mid -1980s , he gave up his job as an illustrator to devote himself entirely to painting and made portraits, still lifes, seascapes and landscapes, paintings on the theme of jazz or sport and more particularly on the Orient, he is cited as one of the French orientalist painters. More on Jean-François Arrigoni Neri 

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