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The dramatic character of the pictorial imagination dominates recent works by Julian Samuel, presented at the Georges Laoun, rue St-Denis, Montreal. The paintings seem composed under the sign of emotion and convey a sense of surprise, the pictorial gesture is marked by a rapid movement, while each table consists of many layers of oil paint methodically placed over days, and even months.
An ecstatic contemplation and tormented as a background for these images and invariably refer in a roundabout way to a state of mind, a romantic conception of the universe. Romantic, because nature, cutting edge of abstraction in painting Samuel seems to be the scene of a battle of enormous forces also including the personality of the artist at his easel. And the sight of these paintings, we can think of Turner unrest in rigor to those of Géricault: obviously, proportionately, because historically we find later in expressionism, and also in that of abstract expressionism. It notes that the subtle assimilation by the painter ways, the rhetoric of these two approaches pictorial.
Curiously, beyond energy and turbulence register - which burn - these tables in memory, a form of meditation (can we talk about Zen?) Emerges, which marks a counterpoint much needed in pictorial gesture at once tragic and playful. The artist attributes this component meditative work diligently to return to that later a first version, before his easel and successively applying layers of color paced moments of meditation and reflection formal: to thus achieve the desired effect.
The dramatic sense of vision is often achieved through the contrast between lights and bursts of warm color, such as red brick or blood, or saffron yellow, juxtaposed with traces of dark crossed blacks. Of bright and warm colors, which occupy much smaller fields than dark colors, illuminate, highlight them so mystical or mysterious. Would it be a modern form of chiaroscuro?
Black color vectors riddle fields in turn green or dark blue, almost in blending therewith. It nevertheless retains the feeling that there is very little true fusion, true color mixing, despite the proximity, the presence of primary tones is crucial ...
KB in Parc Lafontaine (2011) a set of cobalt blue and dark blue denote what may be the sea and the sky. Dark areas giving the black part curiously expression in Anglo-Saxon tradition of fun, wonder exploration results black. (It makes associations with Whistler's Nocturnes, with black fabrics in domestic scenes of Mary Cassatt ...) From there, the sense of mystery and nervousness excess black ... But the surprise is achieved in by Samuel an explosive effect of red brick, by dusting, a trail of the tone that illuminates, through which the upper region of the fabric.
Sable Night Night is a work apparently seized by agitation turnerienne related to the untamed power of nature. Reflections of a nascent night, a heavy night, crossing lights very dark blue, painter Deputy surface relief: impasto, textured varnish accents that add to the eerie dark blue and black. A Navy ship silhouettes, in all likelihood ...
31 hours in Montreal, points saffron yellow and brick red and orange trail intersecting black connoting catastrophe, the violent event. The popular imagination to fire tragedies that varied across our global news.
Strong gesture that marks the works seem to have much action painting method by which the movement of the brush or the action of flowing paint on a surface become objects of contemplation, yet Samuel said there intentionality in its formal method. The canvas is started as a simple sketch, study diluted, but the forms to specify As the act of painting ahead. In short, the message of abstract expressionism is diverted in the direction desired by the artist.
SVS Securities Review talks about his debt to the American abstract expressionist Franz Kline: Kline while in drafts dazzling industrial landscapes are included within the two dimensions of the canvas, Samuel overflows into a third dimension matiériste with nodules, granulations surface coatings and varnishes made by that also create a biological connotation works. The artist also mentioned his admiration for the German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, known for his portraits tragic and hard work of the line, but Samuel has probably absorbed the aesthetic tormented Kirchner while preferring an advanced degree of abstraction, and this option figurative face of the German master.
The appearance sometimes unfinished canvases Samuel should be noted, probably as referred in my opinion, because there is a character of infinite possible games polish, nodules, granulation and impasto ... Sincere, expression requires attention, requires Note that the technique used, the work questions, it communicates with the viewer. There's discursive opening test in these works, and perhaps also a form of emotional power of the song. Subtly postmodern art, as well as being influenced by abstract expressionism, he joined the nuances of the spirit of the romantic landscape ... Discrete hybridity. Julian Samuel also shows that the message of abstract expressionism, far from being exhausted or out of phase, can serve as support to new visions.
