Henri Cadiou (26 March 1906, Paris – 6 April 1989) was a French realist painter and lithographer known for his pretense in trompe-l’œil paintings. He is qualified with living thing a founder of the l’école de la réalité in 1949 (called nowadays Mouvement Trompe-l’œil-réalité). ‘De la Réalité’ was reaction against abstract art, seen at the Salon de Mai of 1960 where he exhibited paintings that were as regards photographically realistic, in particular Shower Curtain and Electoral Panel, with which he caused a stirReacting adjacent to abstract art. He was along with president of the Association for the Protection of the Cité Fleurie (the “Flowering City”), a wooded area around the boulevard Arago in Paris’s 13th arrondissement where approximately thirty artist’s studios are located. Through his extreme realist style, Cadiou created trompe-l’œil paintings by grouping together large numbers of mysterious objects. He plus painted genre scenes. Some of Cadiou’s most famous works are ‘Le mégot, 1971’ and ‘Handel following Care, 1996’
Because of renewed amalgamation in precursors to contemporary hyperrealism, the intervention of painters allied with the “peintres de la réalité” are seeing a contemporary resurgence and have been exhibiting now for just about fifty years in the Salons as competently as in personal or gather together shows as capably as in Europe, Asia, North America (New York Cultural Center, Corcoran Gallery of Washington), Canada, Brazil, etc.
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