"Carpe Diem" figurative art.
Artist: Johanne Maheux.
2016, St-Georges de Beauce
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Theme : calm, serenity, conversation thread, loneliness, carpe diem, blue, peace, figurative painting, life scene
Style : figurative art
Format original artwork : 40 x 40 inches / 101X101 cm.
Reproduction size: 10 x 10 inches / 25X25 cm, 20 x 20 inches / 51X51 cm, 30 x 30 inches / 76X76 cm, 40 x 40 inches / 101X101 cm.
Dominant colors : blue
Hanging system included :
Floating frame
Interpretation of the work by the artist:This work is the first in the “Conversations” series. It's a nod to the relationship we have with screens. Carpe diem means “enjoy the present moment without worrying about tomorrow”. Seeing all of us scrolling the thread continuously, I wonder about the real quest. The calm of the moment or flight from the present?
Carpe Diem - Johanne Maheux
The world is her laboratory.
In a figurative style close to social realism, an American artistic movement dating from the 1930s, Johanne Maheux expresses her vision of life through thematic series that are a pretext to paint the universe as she sees it.
She is particularly interested in social realities and certain themes are recurrent in her works, especially the relationship that human beings have with time; the time that passes, the time that remains, the time that is lost, that we have too much of or that we no longer have... She is also interested in everything that concerns communication between humans, as evidenced by her series "Conversations".