JULIETTE DUMAS, Whale Fluke (Le Grand Bleu)

View Similar Items

Ceravolo - "Where do I go from here" Large oil and acrylic on canvas with metal grid 66x80"

Francisco Nicolás - Birds 015

Melanie Yazzie - My Best Friend, mixed media painting by Melanie Yazzie, bear, pink, blue, Navajo

Ritu Sinha - Red Line- Fauvist Painting in Red + Green + Yellow of Black and White Cow

Lesley Spowart - My Funny Valentine - Abstract Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary

Lesley Spowart - Let Sleeping Dogs - Abstract Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary

Lesley Spowart - Yellow Dog (I'll always love you)- Mixed Media Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart

Lesley Spowart - Off to the Races - Mixed Media Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart- Contemporary

Lesley Spowart - Summer Vacation - Mixed Media Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary

Mark Flood - “Green Peacock” Contemporary Green & Pink Abstract Lace Painting

Joshua Brown - "Nearly Camouflaged Cow II" Contemporary Abstract Animal Acrylic on Canvas

Lucie Sheridan - Scaredy Cat, Lucie Sheridan, Animal Art, Pop Art, Bright Contemporary Painting

1 of 7

Juliette Dumas
JULIETTE DUMAS, Whale Fluke (Le Grand Bleu)
2018

About the Item

TWO PANELS. Two Panels: each 60 x 72 in. Overall dimensions: 60 x 144 in. (152.40 x 365.76 cm) - the depth is 2.75 inches. The paintings shown the exhibition ANGELS at Silas von Morisse gallery, portrays a species that was present on Earth 30 million years before us. They travel 16,000 miles every year, continuously swimming with half of their brain asleep while the other half is awake, all the while making sonic maps of the ocean floor. The generic name Megaptera (from the Greek mega-/μεγα- ""giant"" and ptera/πτερα""wing""), refers to their large front flippers. Each individual has specific scars and markings on their fluke (tail) resulting from attacks by predators, fishing gear entanglements, boat collisions, and the continuous thrashing through water. For this series, Dumas prepares her surfaces with clay on paper mounted on canvas, allowing her to scratch into the layers, drawing by subtraction into the fresh “skin” of the painting. She then runs water over it, letting the process of erosion edit by destroying some of the work. Dumas subscribes to the terms of The “Rio Negro Manifesto” created in 1978 by the French art critic Pierre Restany who drafted a manifesto along with two artists, the Brazilian (born in Poland) Frans Krajcberg, and the Yugoslav based in Brazil Sepp Baendereck. In 1978, the three men traveled along the Rio Negro River, an affluent of the Amazon River that runs through sections of Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, along the Amazon ecosystem. That extraordinary expedition triggered a profound stream of consciousness in the three men on the urgency of defending the Amazon and combining ethics with esthetics in art. That deep feeling gave birth to a rallying call in defense of art that is “naturalistic, essentialist and fundamental,” as opposed to the “realism” and “chaos” of contemporary art. After the expedition and on behalf of the group, Restany wrote the “Manifeste du Naturalisme or “Manifeste du Rio Negro”, cosigned by the other 2 artists. The “Manifesto” yearns for a return from thinking and perception to a condition of “original nature”that defines naturalism as a discipline of perceptive and planetary consciousness, a return to the “occult meaning of things,” all in the service of the imagination and sensitivity. The group’s point of departure was a concept of art opposed to the “tyranny of the object” and to “highly materialistic” ambitions. Instead, it favored the deconstruction of the art object and a concern for human destiny, beyond the ecological perspectives of that period. JULIETTE DUMAS (French, b. 1987 in Paris. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) As an artist whose work is informed by a deep preoccupation about planet earth and our relationship to it, Dumas uses the physical properties of her materials and the dynamics of their interaction, to create poignant metaphors for humanity’s struggle to control the effects of environmental degradation. Dumas completed her BA at Villa Arson in Nice France and her MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2013. Dumas has been awarded artist residencies at Festival Grandeur Nature, Ristolas, France in 2009 and La Station, Nice in 2015. She was nominated for Clare Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists by the Painting and Drawing Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dumas' work was featured in notable group and solo exhibitions including “Winter Studies” (2015), Kunstverein Gaestezimmer E.V, Stuttgart, Germany (Curated by Alf Setzer); “Ad Hoc”(2015), La Station, Nice, France (curated by Collectif Culbuto). The artist has received reviews in Artcritical, Hyperallergic, Wall Street International, Delicious Line LE GRAND BLEU is the lastremming work from thet exhibition from June 2018, ANGELS at silas von Morisse

Creator:
Juliette Dumas (1987, French)
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 42 in (106.68 cm)Width: 96 in (243.84 cm)Depth: 2.75 in (6.99 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Clay,Acrylic
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: JD0881stDibs: LU104413485051

JULIETTE DUMAS, Whale Fluke (Le Grand Bleu)

View Similar Items

Juliette Dumas
JULIETTE DUMAS, Whale Fluke (Le Grand Bleu)
2018

About the Item

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Ceravolo
"Where do I go from here" Large oil and acrylic on canvas with metal grid 66x80", 2020

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Francisco Nicolás
Birds 015, 2017

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Melanie Yazzie
My Best Friend, mixed media painting by Melanie Yazzie, bear, pink, blue, Navajo, 2021

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Ritu Sinha
Red Line- Fauvist Painting in Red + Green + Yellow of Black and White Cow , 2014

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Lesley Spowart
My Funny Valentine - Abstract Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Lesley Spowart
Let Sleeping Dogs - Abstract Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary

Recently Viewed

JULIETTE DUMAS, Whale Fluke (Le Grand Bleu)

View Similar Items

Juliette DumasJULIETTE DUMAS, Whale Fluke (Le Grand Bleu)2018

About the Item

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Ceravolo"Where do I go from here" Large oil and acrylic on canvas with metal grid 66x80", 2020

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Francisco NicolásBirds 015, 2017

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Melanie YazzieMy Best Friend, mixed media painting by Melanie Yazzie, bear, pink, blue, Navajo, 2021

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Ritu SinhaRed Line- Fauvist Painting in Red + Green + Yellow of Black and White Cow , 2014

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Lesley SpowartMy Funny Valentine - Abstract Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Lesley SpowartLet Sleeping Dogs - Abstract Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary

Recently Viewed

Juliette Dumas
JULIETTE DUMAS, Whale Fluke (Le Grand Bleu)
2018

Ceravolo
"Where do I go from here" Large oil and acrylic on canvas with metal grid 66x80", 2020

Francisco Nicolás
Birds 015, 2017

Melanie Yazzie
My Best Friend, mixed media painting by Melanie Yazzie, bear, pink, blue, Navajo, 2021

Ritu Sinha
Red Line- Fauvist Painting in Red + Green + Yellow of Black and White Cow , 2014

Lesley Spowart
My Funny Valentine - Abstract Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary

Lesley Spowart
Let Sleeping Dogs - Abstract Animal Painting by Lesley Spowart - Contemporary