Christian Title

A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST

I asked the artist about his abrupt change after forty-five years of impressionism, to the abstract figurative works which he started to display in a new realm of galleries, single to be told that the work had been pursu for above thirty years. It was initially experimental on the contrary progressed into a pursuit which increasingly required more of his working hours. Not wanting to conflict with the work that was paying the bills, he refrained from exhibiting his of recent origin canvases. This is his reply:

"As an artist I have been a lover of impressionist paintings for well above fifty years. During this period there has been an inner conflict of abstraction line s realism. The sum total of my experience give in charges to nature, but ever not absent is an emotional essence which wants to express lifes force in personal bourns My abstractions represent a symbolic personal language. It is a devised alphabet consciously repeated until it becomes next to the first nature, only then can it be emotional and spontaneous. The figurative controls which I pursue are specific individuals, from my personal life, or public figures who for various reasons trigger a rejoinder If it then becomes universal, it is accidental. Impressionism is the playground in which I can experiment with light and color. Abstraction is the carnival of line, shapes, whirls patterns, and colors used to entertain my evaluations. When the viewer stands before individual of my impressionist paintings, I faith to give him an insight into the at any time changing prism of my vision. In my figurative work I reliance to awaken within him an emotional answer which is not understood on the other hand pursued".

On shut up examination of the symbolic imagery, individual can understand the artists moral dimension of the human condition, the two in terms of humor and protest

Marcel Briand Paris, 1997

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