By Jean Jacques Boimond
Located in Genève, GE
Signed "Boimond" in the lower right corner.
The artist approaches the traditional still-life genre with considerable freedom, reducing familiar objects to loosely defined silhouettes and patches of pigment. Dark bottles rise along the left side of the composition, while a cluster of brilliant yellow flowers illuminates the center. Rounded forms suggesting fruit and vessels appear throughout the foreground, alternately emerging from and dissolving into the surrounding painted surface.
The composition is distinguished by its sophisticated palette of warm ochre, earthy red, turquoise blue, deep green and luminous yellow. Rather than relying on conventional perspective or precise outlines, the artist constructs the image through color, texture and overlapping forms. The vigorous handling of the paint gives the surface a tactile quality and creates a compelling balance between figuration and abstraction.
The work reflects the renewed approach to still-life painting that developed in European post-war art, when recognizable subjects were increasingly transformed through expressive color, simplified form and gestural application of paint.
Both energetic and harmonious, this richly colored composition has a strong decorative presence while retaining the intimacy and familiarity of the traditional still life.
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Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Paintings
