Dislike ?
US$ 3,280
Overview
2019
Acrylic, Acrylic and wax pastel on canvas
Unique Work
Dimensions: 150cm (H) x 100cm (W) x 1cm (D) / 59.1" (H) x 39.4" (W) x 0.4" (D)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings
Shipping
This item ships from France
Please note that this item is unframed and will be shipped rolled
Shipping cost will be calculated upon checkout
About the art
Artist statement
The artwork is a large abstract modern painting. An unconscious reflexion about our world. Style is gestural and free. Wax pastels gives energic lines on some places of the work. There's automatic writing : an imaginary alphabet. The word "DISLIKE" is written in a pale beige on the upper right corner.
Why "Dislike" ? I was painting a pure abstract, putting colors and vigorous writing on the canvas. Suddenly, in a phenomenon of paréidolia, I saw the silhouette of a man in the paint stains. He may have been a worker welding (sparks) or a member of the special law enforcement units with a helmet and body protections. Maybe, something had exploded at his feet ... Then, it was only a violent scene, the repression of a revolt, or war. And the word "dislike" was becoming haunting in my head. So, I let all the details come in, my hand wrote those words with imagined letters. I was painting a terribly contemporary scene of violence and chaos, as I have seen lately. The images are written in the soul, and sometimes, without being able to do anything, they come out ...
This work will be delivered with an invoice and a signed certificate of authenticity. Shipping carefully packaged and tracked.
TRANSPORT TUBE SHIPPING: Due to the size, the painting is sent unstretched, rolled in a transport tube. A framer will hold it very easily on a frame.
Stretchers not provided.
Artist profile
Fabienne Monestier
Born: 1962
Hometown: Vouvray
Based in: Vouvray, France
Fabienne Monestier is a French professionnal painter.
She is graduated in Fine Art. She studied experimental cinema and engraving at the art school "Institut d'Arts Visuels" of Orléans, France.
But her favorite practice, in cinema, was to draw the story-boards !
She get an Art School High Diploma in 1989. She really began …
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