After training as a painter-decorator at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, Jacques Monory worked for ten years with the art publisher Robert Delpire, where he came into contact with the world of photography. He is one of the main representatives of the Figuration Narrative movement, which in the mid-1960s opposed abstract painting with painters such as Hervé Télémaque, Erró, Rancillac, Peter Klasen, Eduardo Arroyo and Valerio Adami. Deeply concerned with the violence of everyday reality, Monory's paintings suggest heavy and threatening atmospheres. Themes are developed through series and the images he uses are directly taken from contemporary society. Photographic and cinematographic borrowings, the use of monochrome, the coldness of the brushstroke and the composition characterize a singular and committed style of representation, often bathed in a blue monochrome.