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Michel TESTARD
France
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Gouache on Paper
- Framing : Framing on request
- Dimensions : 16.5x11.8in
About this artwork
'Homo Abacus' is part of a my series of fantasy portraits. Fantasy faces I like to make from time to time, as fresh exercises away from larger works.
These portraits are spontaneous, made with haste, they come from nowhere. They are exercises of pure creativity, often produced with of from errors and accidents. I never know what will come out when I start. When finished, I give a name to the portrait and make up a story.
This 'Homo Abacus' is a… man's head - perhaps hidden under a helmet ? - an engine head rendered in layered blues, greys, and earthy tones.
Amidst the stern geometry of this head, the man's eyes stand out with a short, expressive, gently sorrowful gaze. This is not a soulless robot, but a human caught in his armory jail, trying to make a choice between automation and action, computation and compassion.
I look at it with some reference to Fernand Léger and Chirico. It is made on paper, available in a simple mount.
These portraits are spontaneous, made with haste, they come from nowhere. They are exercises of pure creativity, often produced with of from errors and accidents. I never know what will come out when I start. When finished, I give a name to the portrait and make up a story.
This 'Homo Abacus' is a… man's head - perhaps hidden under a helmet ? - an engine head rendered in layered blues, greys, and earthy tones.
Amidst the stern geometry of this head, the man's eyes stand out with a short, expressive, gently sorrowful gaze. This is not a soulless robot, but a human caught in his armory jail, trying to make a choice between automation and action, computation and compassion.
I look at it with some reference to Fernand Léger and Chirico. It is made on paper, available in a simple mount.
Michel TESTARD
France
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
Michel Testard
wandering painter of faraway worlds
Born in Tokyo and raised in Japan and Vietnam, I later lived in Africa, the UK and for twenty years in India. These places were not stops on a journey but temporary homelands, each leaving their own colour and rhythm within me. I paint what has marked me: a bend of the Ganges at dawn, the mineral light of Ladakh, Icelandic wilderness, the twilight of Rajasthani bazaars, the meditative atmosphere of Indian classical music. At times the real shifts into the imaginary — Goan rooms opening onto the sea, murmuring jungles, humorous portraits of musicians, rajas and yogis. My style is spontaneous and expressionist, guided by intuition and shaped by colour, emotion and memory. I paint to honour the faraway worlds that continue to inhabit me.
You can also check out my Indian Chronicles, written under the pen name François-Xavier Croisy:
https://asialyst.com/fr/?s=Fran%C3%A7ois+Xavier+Croisy
wandering painter of faraway worlds
Born in Tokyo and raised in Japan and Vietnam, I later lived in Africa, the UK and for twenty years in India. These places were not stops on a journey but temporary homelands, each leaving their own colour and rhythm within me. I paint what has marked me: a bend of the Ganges at dawn, the mineral light of Ladakh, Icelandic wilderness, the twilight of Rajasthani bazaars, the meditative atmosphere of Indian classical music. At times the real shifts into the imaginary — Goan rooms opening onto the sea, murmuring jungles, humorous portraits of musicians, rajas and yogis. My style is spontaneous and expressionist, guided by intuition and shaped by colour, emotion and memory. I paint to honour the faraway worlds that continue to inhabit me.
You can also check out my Indian Chronicles, written under the pen name François-Xavier Croisy:
https://asialyst.com/fr/?s=Fran%C3%A7ois+Xavier+Croisy
Michel TESTARD
Homo Abacus
$1,910
