Exotic dream 4

2018
Acrylic painting on Japanese paper
20 x 20 cm
150€  – Sold

I pick up on my theme of flowers and bouquets, I strip them of the natural elements appropriate to photographic representation, I strip them of the illusional backgrounds of the traditional still life (the corner of a table, a chest of drawers, a cupboard…).

I assert this as a constructed work of art by “throwing” it on the canvas in a universe that belongs to the artist’s work shop : stains, drips, drool… I pull off this little miracle peculiar to artists : to show artifice, to create emotion…

We could parody the title of a painting by Magritte… “this is not a flower”… and yet…

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