Painting titled "Femmes d'Alger dans…" by Gilles Chambon, Original Artwork, Oil

Femmes d'Alger dans mon appartement (2009) Painting by Gilles Chambon

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Original Artwork Painting, Oil

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 25.6in
Categories Surrealism

Le tableau de Delacroix de 1834, représentant trois femmes algériennes dans leur appartement, a fasciné depuis l’origine beaucoup de critiques et d'artistes. J'ai moi-même rêvé de posséder cette oeuvre, qui met si savamment en scène les personnages féminins dans le clairobscur des appartements du harem.
Pour réaliser ce rêve, et ayant définitivement renoncé à voler au Louvre le chef d’oeuvre orientaliste, j’ai finalement décidé d’incorporer son « eidolôn » au grand miroir de mon atelier. Ainsi les fumeuses de narguilé et leur esclave noire se retrouvent mêlées au reflet de jeunes femmes contemporaines au type méditerranéen, bien réelles celles-là, qui discutent, nonchalamment adossées sur mes tapis algériens.
Ainsi, grâce au miroir magique de la peinture, j’ai réussi à mettre les femmes d’Alger de Delacroix dans mon appartement et, du même coup, j’ai aussi mis en abîme, à presque deux siècles de distance, les ancêtres soumises du sérail et les libres filles de la modernité.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Surrealism

Founded in 1923 by the writer André Breton, it will unite many artists like Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Max Ernst, René Magritte (1898-1967), Victor Brauner (1903-1966). Influenced by psychoanalysis, they see psychic life as a new field for renewing the arts. They will develop new ways to create and use new materials.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

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