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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 7.9x7.9in
About this artwork
Series of détournement after Johannes VERMEER. I sought to transcribe an intimate and warm moment of daily life by using oil to enrich the vibrant colors and detailed textures. The scene depicts a moment suspended in time, the hippopotamus is reading a letter, his attention leads him to get closer to the light to read better, leaving aside his current occupation: the fruits lying unbalanced on the table indicate that the mail deserved all his attention.…
It is up to each of us to ask ourselves what in this letter justifies abandoning the current task...
The technique of glazing was used extensively to give the painting as much physical depth as it had intellectual depth.
It is up to each of us to ask ourselves what in this letter justifies abandoning the current task...
The technique of glazing was used extensively to give the painting as much physical depth as it had intellectual depth.
Cécile Marchand
France
Credentials
- Works on commission
Cécile MARCHAND operates in a unique, pop and offbeat universe that plays with clichés and stands out with its humor.
The Artist brilliantly takes up the great themes of the history of Art through a form that is dear to him: hippopotamuses.
From Vinci to Degas...it is a rereading clearly updated and deliberately linked to our society.
At the crossroads, between the sacred and the pagan, she reinvents an anthropomorphic iconography where the body and the reverie that results from it are one of the strengths of her
work. These modern forms, sometimes close to the world of comics, combine with the elegance and power of oil glaze. The artist is not an iconoclast and does not desacralize the work of art, she claims it, questions it and questions our own "self".
Between tradition and modernity; humanism, lightness and commitment, she brings the Pop'art approach up to date, and
imposes its universe while creating an identity that is unique to it and recognizable among all.
The Artist brilliantly takes up the great themes of the history of Art through a form that is dear to him: hippopotamuses.
From Vinci to Degas...it is a rereading clearly updated and deliberately linked to our society.
At the crossroads, between the sacred and the pagan, she reinvents an anthropomorphic iconography where the body and the reverie that results from it are one of the strengths of her
work. These modern forms, sometimes close to the world of comics, combine with the elegance and power of oil glaze. The artist is not an iconoclast and does not desacralize the work of art, she claims it, questions it and questions our own "self".
Between tradition and modernity; humanism, lightness and commitment, she brings the Pop'art approach up to date, and
imposes its universe while creating an identity that is unique to it and recognizable among all.