Jean-Paul Courchia is a highly successful painter both in Europe and in the United States. His oils on canvas are displayed in Marseille in the famous Provencal Gallery Jouvène, which Van Gogh and Cezanne called home for their art work. Her Highness Queen Paola of Belgium and Madame Nobutaka Shinomiya, wife of the Consul of Japan in Marseille, are avid collectors of his work.
There is another facet to his interesting persona, medical doctor of endocrinology and metabolic diseases he is fascinated by science. He is is often requested to give lectures in France about the visual strategy of visitors in front of paintings.
Measurements of eye movements in the discovery of a painting show how vision is often disconnected from the brain. Starting out from a preliminary study into the behaviour of museum visitors, and in particular the average time spent in front of a picture (about 12 seconds !!) , his research is intended to highlight the information picked up by viewer exploring various paintings. You will be captivated by the videos showing the eye gaze strategies in paintings by Henri Matisse or Francisco Goya.
In a new work presented at the French Society of Ophthalmology he realizes the exploration of the last painting of Van Gogh, and shows how the artistic information conducts the eye of the spectator. Thru this painting we discover the artist’s brain in his last moments.
