Jules Atarax (1985) - After Bacon — The Scream
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Jules Atarax, 2024, After Bacon — The Scream, a 70 × 50 cm oil and acrylic expressionist painting from Belgium, original, signed work, in excellent condition, sold by Galerie.
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This work is a free homage to one of Francis Bacon's most emblematic images: the screaming pope figure, a motif that traverses several of his paintings and which finds its most famous expression notably in Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953).
Here, Jules Atarax does not seek to reproduce Bacon's oeuvre, but to reclaim its fundamental tension: the figure of authority confronted with the scream, with deformation and with loss of control.
The vertical silhouette seems to appear and disintegrate at the same time. The face almost disappears under the movements of matter while broad white, red, green and yellow strokes cross the body like streams of energy. In the upper part, a dark and tormented mass contrasts with the intense blue of the background and enhances the sense of enclosure and tension.
The pictorial gesture is deliberately visible and instinctive. Drips, superpositions, erasures and broad brushstrokes give the work a physical presence that prolongs Bacon's expressive heritage while placing it in Jules Atarax's personal language.
A painting about the scream, authority and the fragility of the human figure.
Original and unique work.
Format: 50 × 70 cm.
Signed by the artist.
This work counts among the latest canvases currently available from Jules Atarax, as the entire set of the artist's recent pieces has already been acquired, this rare availability offers collectors a privileged opportunity to acquire an original work at a stage 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, Austria, Norway, Portugal and Italy.
We offer on Catawiki the latest pieces available from this period 2019-2024.
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 TranslateThis work is a free homage to one of Francis Bacon's most emblematic images: the screaming pope figure, a motif that traverses several of his paintings and which finds its most famous expression notably in Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953).
Here, Jules Atarax does not seek to reproduce Bacon's oeuvre, but to reclaim its fundamental tension: the figure of authority confronted with the scream, with deformation and with loss of control.
The vertical silhouette seems to appear and disintegrate at the same time. The face almost disappears under the movements of matter while broad white, red, green and yellow strokes cross the body like streams of energy. In the upper part, a dark and tormented mass contrasts with the intense blue of the background and enhances the sense of enclosure and tension.
The pictorial gesture is deliberately visible and instinctive. Drips, superpositions, erasures and broad brushstrokes give the work a physical presence that prolongs Bacon's expressive heritage while placing it in Jules Atarax's personal language.
A painting about the scream, authority and the fragility of the human figure.
Original and unique work.
Format: 50 × 70 cm.
Signed by the artist.
This work counts among the latest canvases currently available from Jules Atarax, as the entire set of the artist's recent pieces has already been acquired, this rare availability offers collectors a privileged opportunity to acquire an original work at a stage 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, Austria, Norway, Portugal and Italy.
We offer on Catawiki the latest pieces available from this period 2019-2024.
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 TranslateDetails
Artist
Jules Atarax (1985)
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
After Bacon — The Scream
Technique
Acrylic painting, Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Belgium
Year
2024
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
70 cm
Width
50 cm
Depiction/theme
Pop Culture
Style
Expressionism
Period
2020+
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