Drawing titled "La cité flottante" by Almakan, Original Artwork, Ink

La cité flottante (2018) Drawing by Almakan

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Original Artwork Drawing, Ink / Watercolor / Graphite on Paper

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Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Height 11.8in, Width 19.7in
Categories Expressionism Animal

La cité flottante
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Curiosité dystopique n°19
Paris flotte-t-il ?
Après avoir concentré plus de 80% de la population mondiale, les mégapoles, surpeuplées et asphyxiantes, meurent peu à peu malgré tous leurs efforts pour attirer les habitants.
Aux abords des villes, les banlieues subissent la montée des sauvages urbains.
Les villes littorales sont englouties une à une, du fait de l’érosion et de la montée des eaux, quant elles ne croulent pas, elles aussi, sous la pression démographique.
L’écologie urbaine est alors repensée en profondeur, au plus près du vivant.
C’est ainsi que naissent les premières villes artificielles marines et les cathédrales écologiques où l’art des jardins prend un nouvel essor. Autour de ces villes flottantes, l’agriculture et les transports connaissent aussi un nouveau souffle, réinventant tous les systèmes de réseaux entre les humains. Les cités sont désormais considérées comme des êtres vivants.
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Graphite, encre de Chine, aquarelle sur papier d'art en fibres de bambou 265 g/m2
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About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Ink

A strongly tinted liquid or paste that is used to mark paper or other printable materials. The design is done manually with a slab, feather, brush, or straightener.

Watercolor

Watercolor is a painting in which gum arabic binds transparent pigments revealing the support of the painting. The gouache, of identical composition, is opaque. A watercolor is a water-based painting on paper. We rarely speak of a painting for a work painted in watercolor. Watercolor paintings are considered to be a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotions and luminous feelings using water soluble pigments. However, painting with watercolors can be difficult. It's a difficult medium to master, in large part because it can be ruthless and unpredictable. Mistakes are difficult to correct and its fluid nature makes it difficult to control. Yet it is these very qualities that give the medium its undeniable charm.

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.

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.

Almakan

France

Born and living in the South of France, by the Mediterranean Sea, a promising artist in the performing arts since the age of 10, Almakan first embraced the more practical path of international business management,[...]

An engineer with a degree in geopolitics and strategic foresight, she ran businesses for 20 years, mainly in the fields of new technologies and communication, before deciding to devote herself exclusively to Art and try her luck as a full-time artist in 2016.

"Extracting Beauty from chaos and creating the future" is the whole soul of Almakan's work. Her world is blue and black, tinged with sunlight, just like her native land.

Her relationship with the future conditions her technique, she paints on canvases voluntarily uneven, sculpted with plaster or worked like a wrinkled skin in the image of our planet Earth, this blue stone... and like our existences, rarely smooth.

Obsessed with possible futures and the winding paths that shape humanity much more than the highways, she never stops exploring them by all the means given to her, combining paintings and curiosity drawings.