Antoine Petit

Antoine Petit (born 1951) is a French artist, painter and designer.

Petit was born in Lyon (France) and completed his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon. Petit was exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, and is now exhibited permanently in Faure Museum as well as in 2 galleries in Paris and Lyon.
He completed his National Diploma of Painting at Art School in Besançon (atelier Paul Remy) in 1975 and first exhibited his works in 1976 in Madid and Barcelona, Spain. In 1979, he set up in Paris and exhibited his work at the Montrouge Contemporary Art Show in 1981 and 1982.
In 1985, he traveled to United States to meet Rania Towar and Jean Helmut.
Since 1995, he has held personal exhibitions at the Accademia libera natura e cultura in Torino in Italy. Since 2006, he has participated in the Peace Festival for the project of Temple for Peace to be built by the Ewer Center in Normandy with a view to promoting world peace.
Petit works in many different disciplines, media, styles and techniques.
His style oscillates between figurative and pop art.
He is interested in the human figure represented in flat colors.
His usual themes are models, the role of the feminine in popular culture, comic heroines.