The mural painting Opus Georges Brassens is the result of a public commission designed and realized by Filip Mirazovic (as representative of the De Pictura corporation) and initiated by Paris’s City Hall. The creation combines a thematic constraint (imposed subject: representation of the George Brassens quarter in the Paris’s XV district) and personal observations.
The quarter is represented in several street scenes throughout history demanding a chronological reading from left to right.
Initially, the French Revolution , a “sans culotte” in the foreground, then the XIXth. century and the “Commune” period, then follows a representation of the three wars (1870, 1914, 1939). The creation then opens onto the XXth century with the 1950’s (represented by the famous abattoirs of the Rue des Morillons) and carries on to the last years of the XX th century and finally reaches the XXIst century depicted by technological glory. One sees the tramway on the Lefebvre Boulevard and the airbus A380 taking off. The sky goes through different complementary chromatic phases: red dominance for the Revolution, oxydized green for the XIXth century, brown and ochre for the wars, orangey and neopolitan yellow for the 1950’s, mauve-grey and light blue for the XXIst century. The whole mural painting offers a discrete clair-obscur definition for the 1789-1950 period and more sparkling pastel colours for the 1950-2010 period. The gesture is scenographic, constraints included limited time (3 months) and the size of the creation ( 5 metres by 25 metres). Oil paints were used. The Opus Georges Brassens was realized between April and July 2007. Filip Mirazovic was assisted by Miss Charlotte Salvanès, Mister Thibault Gayet and Mister Gabriel Grecu.
The creation is situated on the supporting wall of the National Railway Grid (SNCF), at the junction of the Rue Jacques Baudry and Rue Castagnary street and can be viewed from just opposite number 114 Rue Castagnary.

Bulletin municipal du XVe arrondissement de paris - Automne 2006 (page 10)

Opus Georges Brassens.

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De Pictura is a corporation of european painters established by Filip Mirazovic, Charlotte Salvanès and Arnaud Plaine . The corporation has been created on the model of the masters’ ateliers of the XVIth and XVIIth century (Verrochio, Da Vinci, Rubens, Rembrandt, Lebrun) which comprised the head of the workshop, companions and apprentices.
The corporation’s activity consists in the commissioning of paintings and aims at restoring the commissioner to a central position in artistic creation.
With the help of the codes and complex notions of “genre painting” (historical scenes, landscapes, portraits, still-life) and the close collaboration of the commissioner, De Pictura designs and realises classic paintings on a museum-like scale. The corporation’s paradigm being the great historical inventory of classic Western paintings. Paintings from De Pictura seek to play a full role in private and public artistic heritage.
In the context of a post-modern period of art and societies, alongside multipolar expressions of contemporary art, De Pictura wants to trigger vital dynamics: i.e. the return to classic realistic painting and to pursue the tradition of individual representations in a secular manner.
Willing to contribute to the artistic pluralism in our contemporary age and with conviction, we are dreaming of a new golden age of painting.