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North Vietnam Brocard (2019) Painting by Gaspard De Gouges
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Painting,
Oil
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Acrylic
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Charcoal
on Canvas
- Dimensions Height 63in, Width 55.1in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $20,000 Figurative Portrait
This triple portrait of an American family from Hawaii was inspired by an image from a fashion magazine. The characters are almost life-size and the painting operates like a door. At first sight we are in the presence of a united and happy family, the young woman sticking to her husband and holding her child in her arms. But on closer inspection, the presence of this chainsaw, a phallic symbol directed towards the woman's crotch, resting on the anxious table. It echoes the stump of the man's left arm, an arm hidden by the female figure. The red animals treated almost in solid color come from medieval imagery, more precisely they made up the motif of a brocade, luxurious fabrics. The presence of the beast between the woman and the man, and of this dog superimposed on the chainsaw questions, creates an uneasiness. There is a blatant play with depth in this painting: the orange background is a flat tint which diminishes any depth, like a wall, the beast is both behind the man's head and in front of his chest, and the hind leg emerges from the gap in the woman's arm, the man stands behind the table, the woman in front of the table and yet the tool placed on the table passes in front of the female body.
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Gaspard de Gouges lives and works in the Gard, between Montpellier and Marseille (France). He is a graduate of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. In the early 2000s, he began to paint large format figurative canvases, group portraits. Since 2021 he has devoted himself to photography, which has become a game for him, a kind of motionless journey.
"I started photographing scenes when I was 10 years old, with very realistic toys and models that I built with stalks of dry grass, miniature vehicles. For a long time I wanted to photograph islands, to their dreamlike power, I love to travel there and their memory persists. Their existence plunges us into an elsewhere. I imagined them tropical, but it is on mineral and Mediterranean islands that I finally decided to evoke. My approach is to create stagings, artificial but plausible, realistic landscapes. I create imaginary worlds, sometimes containing ruins, at least rocks that sometimes make me think of fortresses. These landscapes surprise me and always give me a lot of pleasure to create. "
- Nationality: FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1971
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists