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May 25, 1901 â September 2, 1968
Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France
AndrĂ© Girard, French painter of religious subjects and a professor of art at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, Queens, was noted for his technique of painting on 70-mm. film, not in separate pictures but in a continuous sequence. He called it "painting on light." When the film is projected, the translucent images seem to flow from one into the next. Mr. Girard was a native of Chinon, France. While a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he met Georges RouaulâŠ
