Séraphine de Senlis - Séraphine Louis - Bouquet of Flowers -
Inspired by her religious beliefs, Louis painted ecstatic visions of fruit, flowers, and foliage against monochromatic or horizontally divided fields of color realized in oil or Ripolin, a household enamel paint. The compositions are studded with glossy, jewel-like florae that blossom outward from roughly defined cores, such as tree trunks or vases. In later works, figure and ground merge into a dense weave, uniting the entire canvas in a pulsing, twisting rhythm. Records of Louis’s hallucinations and fixation on apocalyptic times, documented during her institutionalization, offer clues to the meaning of her paradisiacal florae and representations of the tree of life. While most of the blooms depicted in Louis’s oeuvre are imaginative hybrids, she often painted daisies. In Marguerites she reduces the white flowers to whorls of thin brushstrokes radiating outward from glowing, spherical centers. A row of stylized leaves frames the flowers against a mysterious, dark field. Feuilles features a more specific sense of space, even as the swarming mass of leaves merges expressively into the brushwork of the yellow background. As in many of her later works, tiny daubs and dots of paint cluster decoratively across the surface, lending the painting an otherworldly radiance. Jenevive Nykolak
Size: 2420px × 3000px
Photo credit: © steeve. e. flowers. / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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