footballers iii nicolas de stael

footballers iii nicolas de staelIn this work, Nicolas de Stal continues his series devoted to football, a theme he approaches as an exercise in pictorial construction. When observing the game, he does not seek to reproduce a specific action, but rather to convey the arrangement of bodies on the pitch and their spatial relationships. The sporting subject offers him a clear structure, based on the repetition and confrontation of forms, while allowing him to explore marked chromatic

adding to the complexity of the scene

the viewer is invited to immerse himself in a soothing visual universe

In this minimalist

discovered in 1885

The interplay of light and shadow

amplifying a feeling of existential anguish

centered on the mast of the decorated boat

It represents Gauguin's belief that he

evokes small moments of solitude in public spaces

In the centre of the necklace hangs an inert black hummingbird

while her husband Diego Rivera was working on the Detroit Industry mural commissioned by the Ford Motor Company

The colourful boats