Trained with masters in Gaillac, then at the Beaux-arts de Toulouse, in Paris, Cariven shared and maintained during his life many friendly ties with Toulouse artists: André Roucolle, Charles Ponsin-Andarahy, Louis Cazottes... He would lead a career as a painter. art teacher. He will continue to produce quite singular painted and engraved works, placing himself clearly in the movement of decadentism, with a propensity for eroticism and anticlericalism which will characterize his productions, many of which have remained private.