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Mes Archipels

1991

Frederic BENRATH

Painting

114 x 195 cm

Huile sur toile.

A partir de 1956, Benrath devient le plus notoire des Nuagistes et peint comme ici de grandes surfaces sombres et horizontales caressées par la lumière. Il en vient, comme on le voit sur Mes Archipels à renoncer au geste pour pratiquer une diffusion lente de la couleur qu’il nomme « le devenir fluide de l’image ».

© Adagp, Paris, 2007
Frederic BENRATH
France
Born in 1930
Born in Chatou (France).

Frédéric Benrath demonstrates the insistent romantic spirit of informal art (a term used by the art critic Tapié to refer to spontaneous art that emphasises the movement of the hand).
In the early 1950s, Benrath’s paintings were made by scratching the canvas in various ways. This produced a shocking effect that was reminiscent of other informal painters like Soulages and Hartung.

Artwork of
Frederic BENRATH

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