He was also a teacher at the Ecole de Vaugirard film school (Paris, 1968-1971). In addition to numerous articles, he also published two essays and subsequently a novel. so many themes that led him to never separate his political commitment from his painting. Hiroshima, the deportation, the war in Algeria and May 1968. He presents numerous exhibitions on themes such as 'Hell and Mine', 'Eroticism and non-figuration', 'Riots'… There he shows his desire to give “meaning and significance” to his painting. The years 1950-1971 were a period of pictorial effervescence, during which he also took part in the current debates on realism and abstraction.

The exhibition: “Pretext and formal painting” (1950 – Galerie Mai, Paris) marks a turning point in his work, with the transition to the informal. During this period his paintings, drawings, engravings and illustrations were essentially figurative. In 1942 he moved to Paris, where he exhibited regularly from 1947. His first exhibition took place in Montauban in 1939. His pictorial work is accompanied by writings and is interrupted during a period in which he explores the possibilities of cinema. He participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions, in France and abroad (Marzotto Prize in 1967).

Robert Lapoujade, painter, filmmaker, writer, self-taught and committed artist, was born on Januin Montauban (Tarn et Garonne). La Pomme: Image size 25 x 56 cm, paper size 49 x 73 cm. Image size 25 x 56 cm, paper size 48 x 73 cm. Two color etchings, hand signed, numbered and dated.

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