Drawing titled "La Vie en Rose / Vo…" by Patrick Jannin, Original Artwork, Other

La Vie en Rose / Voyage en Ballon (2011) Drawing by Patrick Jannin

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Original Artwork Drawing, Other

Artworks classification

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 25.6in, Width 19.7in
Categories Drawings under $5,000

LA VIE EN ROSE

Du noir et puis du rose.
Des bleus sur la gueule, des membres amputés, des gens qui gueulent en couleur.
La chemise est blanche, empesée, repassée. Ce soir c’est Tenue Correcte Exigée ; tu laisseras donc pour cette fois tes angoisses au vestiaire ou bien à la buvette, à coté du cendrier.

Le bonheur a la couleur du mou que tu donnerais au chat si tu en avais un sous la main. Mais celle-ci ne rencontre que la plume qui te sert à tromper l’ennui. Alors tu te trompes et trempes encore et encore la pointe d’acier au nom de guerre dans la flaque d’encre de Chine. C’est le seul voyage que d’ailleurs tu puisses te permettre, le Voyage en Théorie. Quel beau pays ! Tu en es si content que tu te jures de ne jamais cesser de dessiner. Tu as le plaisir si facile maintenant. Tu veux tellement y croire aussi au bonheur, celui dont tout le monde parle. Tu trempes donc aussi tes lèvres, très discrètement toujours, et tu t’offres en prime une Martinique d’import à raison d’un tiers de sucre de canne, de deux de rhum plus un zeste de citron vert. Tu voudrais bien perdre la mémoire, brûler les friches et devenir caillou. Allez ! Comptes jusqu’à 10 ! Ca va bien se passer. Et quand tu te réveilleras, tu ne te souviendras de rien. C’est écrit.
Tu mets du rose, tu maquilles les gens que ta plume a zigouillés. Tu voudrais tellement leur insuffler la Vie afin que, reconnaissants, ils t’en fassent profiter. Mais quoique tu fasses, il y a toujours un moment où tout se casse la gueule, où ça part en couille. Alors recommence cette bonne veille histoire :
Tu comptes jusqu’à 10.
Du noir et puis du rose.
Des bleus sur la gueule,
Des membres amputés et puis aussi des gens
Qui gueulent,
En couleur.

Patrick jann!n.
06/03/11

Série de dessins à la plume, encre de Chine et acrylique sur papier, format 50x65cm

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Other

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.

Patrick Jannin

France

Patrick Jannin, born in 1971, gives us, through an abundant and protean body of work, a most disturbing vision of the world, or to use the Freudian expression, one of disturbing strangeness. This worshiper of beauty has over the years built a world apart, on the fringes of fashions and artistic currents, in which man, fallen and condemned since the dawn of time to perpetual hell, rubs shoulders - as if to no longer feel, if need be, its ugliness and baseness – creatures of startling beauty, women with animal heads or animals with dreamy bodies, goddesses straight out of ancient myths, who were said to be barbarians then condemned in order to to install in the heads of men a symbol of death and existential emptiness, a vengeful god, the lying god. As for the truth, with this painter, it is quite simply found, for those who only know how to open their eyes to the world around them, on the branch of the tree or under the thickets of an equatorial forest, under the form of the Deer or the Robin, the Hyena or the Zebra. So many animal-symbols, so many totems punctuating the existence of those who aspire to go higher, further and deeper, and all bearers of the same energy, all beautiful and luminous, even in their darkness and in their cruelty, for as Nature made them. So yes, this is how we can see Jannin's universe: a world with three entrances, where each medium (drawing, photography and painting) brings with it its own questions but also ultimately THE answer: beauty. Beauty as a quest, beauty as a bulwark against the inherent stupidity of men, beauty as a source of light, necessary for life itself.