Claude Rivi*re states that Fourneau is the opposite of being a fashionable painter: ``A great admirer of Antonin Artaud, of Paulhan, of Aragon, the artist calls upon his understanding of his model and goes beyond just a formal expression to impose his point of view.'' Jean Paulhan asks himself: ``By what secret, Jean-Claude Fourneau possesses such prolific fierceness?'' . Jean-Claude Fourneau appears on a photograph of surrealist artists gathered at the Caf* Cyrano in 1953, and Andr* Breton mentions him as being part of the group.
Jean-Claude Fourneau
Andr* Breton