Drawing titled "Toile de Stars N° 6…" by Lucien Ségura, Original Artwork, Acrylic

Toile de Stars N° 64223 . Dessin (2012) Drawing by Lucien Ségura

Not For Sale

Seller Lucien Ségura

Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Drawing, Acrylic / Graphite on Paper

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 12.6in, Width 9.5in
Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Figurative Portrait

Les "TOILES DE STARS" . Le deuxième corps . Le corps visible.

Mon travail résulte d'une observation et d'une mémorisation attentive du réel. Il est le symptôme et le reflet de ma subjectivité. Les symboles esthétiques, les détails anatomiques ou les fragments de décors auxquels je me réfère, constituent un ensemble d'éléments représentatifs du "paysage urbain".
Au réalisme, j'oppose l'improvisation et l'interprétation. Ce n'est donc pas la nature qui décide du contour de mes compositions, mais moi-même. Mon postulat consiste à associer au dessin, l'inventaire de signes distinctifs, préalablement engrangés, et emblématiques d'une image excessive, fantasque ou superficielle. Dans cette perspective, la représentation picturale évolue. Des portraits désincarnés s'associent à une morphologie discordante, à l'exemple d'un corps conçu en symétrie avec l'objet. L'urbanité ambiante, favorable aux stéréotypes, produit dans ses ramifications, un luxe de formes et de couleurs, transformant le tableau en un panorama "kitsch", surchargé et baroque. Mes recherches, inspirées par le flux et le reflux des modes, mettent en évidence la quête éphémère, mais cependant constante, d'une "identité augmentée". Des indications iconiques font la part belle à la signalétique d'étiquetage, en notifiant à dessein, par des allusions graphiques, les caractéristiques d'une économie de marché. Stigmates d'un "dehors" revendiqué, les rapports humains véhiculent de nouveaux langages, de nouveaux codes, de nouvelles tendances, confiant au vêtement un rôle de révélateur. Dans de telles circonstances, le "jeu social" crée une mutation. Le corps devient alors un "support d'expression", une métaphore narcissique qui traduit pleinement l'esprit dans lequel je travaille. Avec l'apport de motifs décoratifs et l'emploi de couleurs vives, ces corps extravagants conférent à mes images une grande lisibilité et une singulière démesure.
Les "TOILES DE STARS" sont, pour moi, une alternative au réel, une respiration et l'éloge d'une salutaire euphorie.

© Lucien SÉGURA 2022 . Tous droits réservés . Photographies et retranscriptions.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Acrylic

Paint using traditional pigments mixed with synthetic resins.

Graphite

Black and white drawing made with a pencil, an instrument made of a small wooden stick used as a sheath for a graphite mine of the same length.

Figurative

Figurative and colorful painting having taken the liberty of including all forms of art without border of cultural genre and geographic origin, without hierarchy of values between high and subculture.

Technic Drawing

Drawing is a technique of visual representation on a flat support. The term "drawing" designates both the action of drawing, the resulting graphic work, and the shape of any object. It is also a representation on a surface of the shape (and possibly the light and shadow values) of an object or figure, rather than their color. There are a large number of drawing techniques: “Linear drawing” represents objects by their outlines, edges and some characteristic lines; beyond this limit, the drawing develops by representing the volume by shadows, often by means of hatching, incorporates colors, and joins, without clear transition, the painting.

Lucien Ségura

France

Born in 1952 in Fez, Morocco, Lucien Ségura lives and works in Midi-Pyrénées, France. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Tarbes and at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Limoges, where he studied in the studio of Claude Viallat, Lucien Ségura distinguished himself as a figurative painter with an original and evolving career. .

Mainly using acrylic on linen and marker on paper, Ségura explores varied styles such as fauvism, figurative and cubism. His predilection for the descriptive representation of the human body through variations of the pictorial figure led him to increase research and favor graphic experiments. The quest for an “ideal image” constitutes the heart of his artistic work.

To achieve this ideal, Lucien Ségura relies on improvisation and interpretation, employing elaborate or elementary techniques to achieve a progressive purification of forms, their content and their density. His pictorial approach is at the crossroads of critical play and the intimate.

One of the striking characteristics of his work is the “ANDROGRAPHIC” line. Like a fisherman casting his lure, Ségura draws a line which sketches the contours of the bodies, favors the junction of improbable anatomical points and delimits the field of the drawing with a continuous line. This exploration leads to ambiguous representations, often close to parody, where the moving characters in upset poses reveal a certain apparently happy disillusionment.

Ségura's scenes, whether drawn or painted, appear more like graphic mind games than realistic representations. They mix the intimate with the anagram, offering an interpretation that is as critical as it is playful. His andrographic work transforms the "pictorial figure" into a set of substitutive, often enigmatic figures.

Through his works, Lucien Ségura invites us to discover “character-languages”, characteristic of his formal research. He prints his dreams and shares them brilliantly, revealing a constantly renewed creativity.