blue background workshop corner nicolas de stael

blue background workshop corner nicolas de staelNicolas de Stal takes his immediate environment, the studio, as his starting point, transforming it into an autonomous pictorial construction. Rather than describing a recognisable workspace, he extracts a few essential elements, treating them as simple volumes. The studio thus becomes a place of experimentation where he can organise verticality, depth and relationships between masses, without narration or functional precision. The composition is

She had just undergone several spinal operations and had difficulty walking

a fervent exponent of realism

Discover this dreamlike reinterpretation of Almond blossom

This dialogue between eras illustrates a fusion of introspection and affirmation

This meticulous treatment gives the post-impressionist work an almost poetic quality and allows the details and nuances of the scene to be captured

The whole is treated as a set of colored surfaces

this version of ‘The Traveller Contemplating a Sea of Clouds’ envelops the scene in deeply symbolic detail

slender female figure with deep

is an invitation to contemplation

a green pear and a cut lemon

juxtaposing the ephemeral and the eternal

The Dance I features a group of five nude figures