Jules Atarax (1985) - The Message
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Jules Atarax, The Message, a unique original painting in mixed media (oil and acrylic) on canvas, measuring 50 x 70 cm, signed by hand, from Belgium in an Expressionist style, created in 2010–2020 and sold by Galerie.
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The Message stages a solitary figure absorbed in contemplation of an enigmatic sign. Seated at the edge of an undefined space, the character holds before them a vertical form crossed by a red line, like a fragment of language, a symbol, or a revelation.
The composition rests on a remarkable economy of means. The deep blue background, almost monochrome, contrasts with the dark silhouette, outlined by a luminous halo that gives it an almost immaterial presence. This voluntary simplicity focuses all attention on the silent dialogue between the figure and the object it observes.
The red, used sparingly, becomes an essential point of tension. It disrupts the chromatic balance and introduces a symbolic dimension, leaving the viewer free to imagine the nature of the message: a warning, a memory, hope, or a question.
Through its stripped-down nature, the work participates in a démarche where narration yields to meditation. Silence, emptiness, and light become as important as the figure itself.
Between contemporary figuration and poetic expressionism, The Message invites you to slow down the gaze and contemplate the invisible.
This work ranks among the latest paintings currently available from Jules Atarax, as all of the artist’s recent pieces have already been acquired, this rare availability offers the collector a privileged opportunity to acquire an original work at a moment when the available production becomes extremely limited.
A rare opportunity before the complete disappearance of this series from the market.
His works are in private collections in the USA, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Italy.
We offer on Catawiki the latest pieces available from this period 2019-2024.
Format: 50 x 70 cm
Technique: gestural painting on canvas oil and acrylic
Original work
Seller's Story
We believe that art is not an image.
There is a presence.
A work exists when a human being inhabits matter. When a glance, a hand, hesitation, or intention cross the color. Painting is not a surface to fill, but a place where something alive takes shape.
We refuse non-being.
We reject images without flesh, forms without experience, productions that imitate without feeling. A creation can be technically perfect and yet empty. Perfection without presence is an absence.
What we fight against is not technology.
It is the disappearance of the sensitive.
We defend slowness, doubt, and trace.
The hand that trembles.
The color that lasts.
The gesture that fails then starts again.
It is in this friction between spirit and matter that art is born. Where something is risky. Where something is true.
Painting is an act of resistance.
Resistance to the automation of perception.
Resistance to the uniformity of beauty.
Resistance to forgetting what it means to feel.
Creating is asserting one's existence.
We believe that human feelings are not simulated.
They feel for each other.
They are registering.
They leave a mark
A work bears the weight of those who have traversed it. It contains time, attention, fatigue, joy, and sometimes pain. That is what we seek. That is what we want to convey.
Faced with purely artificial creations, we choose incarnation.
Faced with noise, we choose depth.
Facing speed, we choose accuracy.
As long as there is color, there will be humanity.
This manifesto is not nostalgia.
It's a line.
A line between the image and the work.
Between calculation and presence.
Between the simulated and the lived experience.
We do not make images.
We make human existence exist through color.
And as long as a human hand inhabits matter, art will remain alive.
Translated by Google TranslateThe Message stages a solitary figure absorbed in contemplation of an enigmatic sign. Seated at the edge of an undefined space, the character holds before them a vertical form crossed by a red line, like a fragment of language, a symbol, or a revelation.
The composition rests on a remarkable economy of means. The deep blue background, almost monochrome, contrasts with the dark silhouette, outlined by a luminous halo that gives it an almost immaterial presence. This voluntary simplicity focuses all attention on the silent dialogue between the figure and the object it observes.
The red, used sparingly, becomes an essential point of tension. It disrupts the chromatic balance and introduces a symbolic dimension, leaving the viewer free to imagine the nature of the message: a warning, a memory, hope, or a question.
Through its stripped-down nature, the work participates in a démarche where narration yields to meditation. Silence, emptiness, and light become as important as the figure itself.
Between contemporary figuration and poetic expressionism, The Message invites you to slow down the gaze and contemplate the invisible.
This work ranks among the latest paintings currently available from Jules Atarax, as all of the artist’s recent pieces have already been acquired, this rare availability offers the collector a privileged opportunity to acquire an original work at a moment when the available production becomes extremely limited.
A rare opportunity before the complete disappearance of this series from the market.
His works are in private collections in the USA, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Italy.
We offer on Catawiki the latest pieces available from this period 2019-2024.
Format: 50 x 70 cm
Technique: gestural painting on canvas oil and acrylic
Original work
Seller's Story
We believe that art is not an image.
There is a presence.
A work exists when a human being inhabits matter. When a glance, a hand, hesitation, or intention cross the color. Painting is not a surface to fill, but a place where something alive takes shape.
We refuse non-being.
We reject images without flesh, forms without experience, productions that imitate without feeling. A creation can be technically perfect and yet empty. Perfection without presence is an absence.
What we fight against is not technology.
It is the disappearance of the sensitive.
We defend slowness, doubt, and trace.
The hand that trembles.
The color that lasts.
The gesture that fails then starts again.
It is in this friction between spirit and matter that art is born. Where something is risky. Where something is true.
Painting is an act of resistance.
Resistance to the automation of perception.
Resistance to the uniformity of beauty.
Resistance to forgetting what it means to feel.
Creating is asserting one's existence.
We believe that human feelings are not simulated.
They feel for each other.
They are registering.
They leave a mark
A work bears the weight of those who have traversed it. It contains time, attention, fatigue, joy, and sometimes pain. That is what we seek. That is what we want to convey.
Faced with purely artificial creations, we choose incarnation.
Faced with noise, we choose depth.
Facing speed, we choose accuracy.
As long as there is color, there will be humanity.
This manifesto is not nostalgia.
It's a line.
A line between the image and the work.
Between calculation and presence.
Between the simulated and the lived experience.
We do not make images.
We make human existence exist through color.
And as long as a human hand inhabits matter, art will remain alive.
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Artist
Jules Atarax (1985)
Sold with frame
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
The Message
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Belgium
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
50 cm
Width
70 cm
Style
Expressionism
Period
2010-2020
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