Jules Atarax (1985) - The Last cigarette
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Jules Atarax (born 1985), The Last Cigarette, oil on canvas, original, 30 × 40 cm, 2021, by a Belgian contemporary expressionist artist signed by the artist.
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The Last Cigarette is a contemporary portrait imbued with mystery and melancholy, in which Jules Atarax explores the boundaries between presence, absence, and identity.
A woman with long hair, wearing a turquoise coat, holds a cigarette to her lips. Her face, deliberately erased, escapes any identification. Only the intense red of the mouth, the delicacy of the gesture, and the silhouette of a being absorbed in thought remain.
The composition rests on a subtle palette of grays, pale pinks, and turquoise blues. The diffuse light and the fine vertical lines of the background create a suspended, almost cinematic atmosphere. The reddish smoke rising slowly becomes a graphic element in its own right, evoking the passage of time and the fragility of the moment.
The contrast between the expressive precision of the hand and the erasure of the face constitutes the heart of the work. By stripping the character of distinctive traits, the artist turns a daily scene into a more universal questioning of solitude, intimacy, and memory.
The oil painting, worked with visible brushstrokes and superpositions, preserves a spontaneity that gives the figure a presence at once fragile and disturbing.
The Last Cigarette does not tell a precise story. It suggests a moment of silence, a moment between two thoughts, leaving the viewer free to imagine what precedes or what follows.
Characteristics
Artist: Jules Atarax, Belgian contemporary artist
Title: The Last Cigarette
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Style: Contemporary figuration, expressionism
Authenticity: Original and unique work
Signature: Signed by the artist
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 Last Cigarette is a contemporary portrait imbued with mystery and melancholy, in which Jules Atarax explores the boundaries between presence, absence, and identity.
A woman with long hair, wearing a turquoise coat, holds a cigarette to her lips. Her face, deliberately erased, escapes any identification. Only the intense red of the mouth, the delicacy of the gesture, and the silhouette of a being absorbed in thought remain.
The composition rests on a subtle palette of grays, pale pinks, and turquoise blues. The diffuse light and the fine vertical lines of the background create a suspended, almost cinematic atmosphere. The reddish smoke rising slowly becomes a graphic element in its own right, evoking the passage of time and the fragility of the moment.
The contrast between the expressive precision of the hand and the erasure of the face constitutes the heart of the work. By stripping the character of distinctive traits, the artist turns a daily scene into a more universal questioning of solitude, intimacy, and memory.
The oil painting, worked with visible brushstrokes and superpositions, preserves a spontaneity that gives the figure a presence at once fragile and disturbing.
The Last Cigarette does not tell a precise story. It suggests a moment of silence, a moment between two thoughts, leaving the viewer free to imagine what precedes or what follows.
Characteristics
Artist: Jules Atarax, Belgian contemporary artist
Title: The Last Cigarette
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Style: Contemporary figuration, expressionism
Authenticity: Original and unique work
Signature: Signed by the artist
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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Original
Artist
Jules Atarax (1985)
Title of artwork
The Last cigarette
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Belgium
Year
2021
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
40 cm
Width
303 cm
Depiction/theme
Pop Culture
Style
Expressionism
Period
2020+
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