Light & Dark.jpg Painting by Micheline Bousquet

Micheline Bousquet, has been painting since 1980, the year she arrived in France from the United States. Influenced by artists from the American modern art scene as well as various elements of European modernism, she nevertheless refrains from any affiliation with a group or movement. His non-figurative style has always remained resolutely free, without dogma, without system, without formal solutions. Its subject is the experience of painting itself. Today his favorite material is oil. She came to this subject quite naturally, after a long practice with watercolor, and some research with ink, acrylic, collage, drawing, engraving and mixed media.

To a large extent, Micheline Bousquet's work resides in a constant exploration of the expressive power of color. Color becomes an end in itself. The orchestration of color contrasts gives rise to shapes, lines and movements during creation. Sometimes the compositions are simple, sometimes more complex, or even difficult to read. “It’s like building a puzzle. How do I make the pieces fit together? »

The pictorial texture is characterized by a play between opacity and transparency, shine and dullness, with subtle or dense lines traced in the material, as well as shapes with hard or melting edges. This gives the impression of “floating shapes” which are at the same time firmly anchored. The result is a permanent, often chaotic tension, from which the artist chooses to develop the pictorial elements which seem to impose themselves intuitively in the very act of painting. The artist thus becomes, in a way, the instrument of the painting which tends towards his own life.

Several stages of construction/deconstruction, developed instinctively, reveal a space saturated with colors where the shapes lead the eye beyond the limits of the canvas. The edges seem to open onto a journey into elsewhere, where we do not exist…

“When artistic creation emanates from the depths of oneself, it reveals the universality of man and the connections between each other. If a pleasure or a disturbance is felt... if the spectator feels challenged, the work finds its meaning, and the artist its reason for being", such is the deep conviction which animates Micheline Bousquet in her very singular painting.< /p>

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary American Artists