Daniel Blanzac (XX-XXI) - La cueilleuse aux coquelicots

Daniel Blanzac (2025) – The Poppy Picker, unique piece retouched by hand

Mixed technique: digital creation + canvas printing + original retouching in oil and acrylic.
Canvas stretched on a wooden frame – 50 × 70 cm
Signed and dated on the front and back.

This work is an original creation by Daniel Blanzac, a contemporary artist who explores the boundaries between traditional painting and the latest image technologies. His practice is decidedly current: using visual generation tools (ChatGPT, DALL·E), integrating them into a personal creative flow, and then taking control by physically intervening on the printed canvas to give it substance, vibration, and uniqueness. It is therefore truly a unique and original work.

Here, Blanzac revisits the pastoral theme of the young flower picker — a motif inherited from the 19th century — to create a gentle, luminous image that is intentionally timeless.
The printed canvas is just a starting point: the artist repainted the sky, reworked the entire thicket on the right, enhanced the play of light, and added several flowers entirely handcrafted (notably a red poppy and blue flowers), visible in close-up shots. These touch-ups, done with acrylic and oil, give the subject relief, texture, and presence.

Each intervention makes this piece a unique example, impossible to reproduce exactly: a true augmented monotype, where print and paint dialogue to create a singular object.

An assertive contemporary approach.

Daniel Blanzac belongs to this new generation of artists for whom digital creation is not an end but a step. He advocates for an experimental, hybrid, free practice that draws from:
the classical imaginary
the possibilities offered by AI
the traditional mastery of pigments

The final work is a physical painting, completely dry, ready to be hung, bearing the artist's signature and handwritten notes on the back.

One-of-a-kind piece – Blanzac Collection, 2025