seaside

Nicolas de Stahl is a French artist of Russian descent. In the 1950s, he became an adherent of Tachism, yet he continued to combine figural and abstract painting.

Tachism is a movement within Western European abstraction. Its characteristic traits include broad brushstrokes, fragmented lines, and voluminous color masses. I focused on these techniques in my project.

As part of this project, I created an art object: a pontoon situated inside a wave made of sails.

Since childhood, the maritime theme has been central to Nicolas de Stael’s work. In the 1950s, he returned to this theme and created a series of seascape paintings.

«I look at the sea and I breathe. Everything simplifies, everything falls into place.»