Bruissements charnels on paper 97
2018
Acrylic on paper
48 x 34 cm
390€
Bouquets of flowers: explosion of colors to translate the “life impulse” of flowers, a joyful, sparkling power … like fireworks.
I pick up on my theme of flowers and bouquets, I strip them of the illusional backgrounds and of the natural elements of the traditional still life, I assert this as a constructed work of art by “throwing” it on the canvas in a universe that belongs to my studio : stains, drips, drool… the idea is to pull off this little miracle peculiar to artists : to show artifice, to create the beauty of emotion…
We could parody the title of a painting by Magritte… “this is not a flower”… and yet…