
huile et pigments traditionnels sur lin, 77cm X 62cm, 2012, 1800$
Rubens was a painter of the flesh. Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville are in direct line with him. He loved to paint the big rolls of flesh in fat bodies. I always found that there was nostalgia in the tremendous load of imagery and movement in his works. Nostalgia of pleasures that past, as if he wanted to revive those pleasures through painting. I wanted to express that nostalgia of consumed delights by portraying Rubens against a flesh-tone sunset and making him gazing back at us, like an old accomplice.
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My portrait was painted using only pigments that were available to Rubens in his time. Below is how a few of those pigments are distributed in my work. Click here to read more on my research about traditional pigments.Mon portrait a été peint en utilisant seulement des pigments qui étaient disponibles pour Rubens à son époque. Ci-dessous, vous trouverez la répartition de quelques-uns de ces pigments. Cliquez ici pour plus de détails sur ma recherche à propos des pigments traditionnels (texte en anglais).

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