Artwork of the Week: August 10
Featuring a refreshing image of nature after rainfall, thick blue brush strokes splash across the canvas. The flowers drenched in rain uncover themselves, showing their vibrant bright red petals and green stems. Visson paints the flowers with boldness, unrestricted and rough brushstrokes creating an energetic image without delicacy or fragility. The painting comes to life as a lively creature, soaring through the shower. Fresh colors suggest that the flooding rain will spur the flowers to grow: this is only the beginning of the bloom.
Philippe Visson was an Abstract Expressionist who experimented with distortion of ordinary objects, frequently focusing on portraits, while balancing recognizability. Born to a journalist and editorial secretary of an art review, Visson had early exposure in the art world of New York, Paris, and Washington. Debuting with his first exhibition in 1958 at the age of 16, his career spanned over 50 years while refining and keeping his iconic style. Painted in 1972, Flowers after the Rain shows his stylistic development from his early paintings of clear strokes and defined colors to colorful streams of abstraction.
