André Girard

Biography

André 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 Rouault, the celebrated artist, and studied under him from 1918 until Rouault died in 1952. In 1959, he said in an interview with John P. Shanley in The New York Times: "There are several steps in my work. First I draw on tran...