The Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon was born in 1934 in Uccle, near Brussels. Despite the studies of architecture, it devotes very quickly to the design. Take part, with its illustrations in magazines and other periodicals.; You define for a long period as a humorous illustrator. He soon created a world in which his anonymous character seems a float or slide into a world indefinitely, sometimes absurd.
Through the use of color, his work takes a more pictorial way in the late'60s. In 1969, his first personal exhibition was organized in New York (Lefebre Gallery). In a short time his universe is binding: the covers of French and American newspapers, posters, titles of television. Numerous galleries seized graph of this phenomenon where a certain nostalgia is accompanied by criticism of society, which animates the artist.
The Art of Folon in thin charo-dark, it becomes familiar; The public frequently identifies himself lost to this man in this world of concrete, between the arrows of a thousand contradictory directions, a man manipulated, alienated, anonymous.
In 1971, the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris will organize an extensive exhibition (90 works) of its production. Italy, the U.S., Japan hold about the events. Folon generate a large number of engravings, serigraphs, watercolors, book covers, illustrations, collage. S'interesserà to animation, the tapestries, the theater, sculpture, wall works achieved. Reproductions of his "image" or its posters essential flourish from the vision on the walls of many houses in France and abroad.