André Brasilier was born in 1929 in Saumur, Anjou, France. Both of his parents were painters. In 1949, he entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in France and studied with Maurice Brianchon. In 1952, he won the Florence Blumenthal Prize Award and, in the following year, the Grand Prix de Rome of painting. In 1960, he held his first exhibition in Galerie Weil in Paris. In the following years, he was invited by various galleries and museums to hold exhibitions around the world. In 1980, he held his first retrospective at the Château de Chenonceau, France. In 2005, he held a grand retrospective in one of the four major museums in the world, the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, that lasted for three months.

Brasilier was influenced by ukiyo-e and expressionism. His creative concept focuses on conveying the spiritual perceptions accompanying objects and scenery. Throughout his life, he drew from his passionate worship of the beauty of nature. He has depicted vast ocean scenes and forests, using variations in color to express the changes of time and seasons. With interwoven heavy and light colors, he expresses different emotions in the pictures. He sought simplicity in form, simplifying detailed constructs and complexity to a great extent to bring a focus to the imaginations of the viewer. What he portrays are often women, musicians, and horses-topics common in art history and familiar to the viewer-but because of his unique style, his paintings create profound impressions that remain impressed in the minds of viewers. His romantic style is like the fragrance of flowers blowing into viewers hearts, intoxicating them with his elegant art sentiment.