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 w…