The Art Research About The French Cartoonist-Jean-Jacques Sempe’s Works

France has a long history of cartoon, from which a great many world-renownedcartoon masters have emerged, among whom Jean-Jacques Sempe is an outstandingcreator. Sempe’s works have a distinctive style and irrepressible temperament, able toreflect the society, life and human inward world profoundly. He described the dailylife of the common people in his age with plain, humorous and sharp art languages,and drew the outline of a panoramic image of the modern society, which has a veryhigh artistic value and cultural value. A famous French newspaper highly praised himas not only a humorist, but also a philosopher, sociologist, novelist and poet. The mainresearch content of this paper is to interpret the style characteristics of Sempe’sartistic works from deep and multiple perspectives, to provide reference experiencefor the creation and development of modern cartoon art.The paper carries out a study on Sempe’s artistic works in four chapters.The first Chapter is introduction, which presents a comprehensive introduction tothis paper.The second chapter, as the logical starting point of the research, introducesSempe’s growth experience and the environmental factors that influenced his creationand development, to lay a foundation for an in-depth interpretation of the artisticworks’ characteristics. Sempe’s growth experience is complex and tortuous, which isrelated strongly to the turbulent and changeable historical background in which helived. Just in the age, which witnessed bold changes, Sempe not only had himselftempered, but got an opportunity for survival. Due to the influence of many factors,such as personal factor, family factor and environmental factor, Sempe developed acertain artistic taste and philosophical concept, thus laying a foundation for hisaesthetic orientation and emotional tendency in the creation.The third chapter is Primary research. With Sempe’s works as the entry point, itmakes an in-depth study on his artistic style, mainly including the artistic connotationof the works as well as the changeful picture composition, interesting character shape and the three formal language features of the lyrical and freehand line languageshown in the works, to display the artistic value of Sempe’s works.The final chapter researches the humanistic characteristics and humanistic valueof Sempe’s works, to put them in the powerful current of the times, to feel theirunfailing artistic charm, for an in-depth interpretation of Sempe’s drawings.