Antoine Mortier

*Floraison en bleu* bears witness to the most vibrant period of Antoine Mortier’s career. Creative impulse and spontaneous brushwork are tempered by a rigorous sense of composition. The brushwork is supple; the artist combines emotion and concept into a dense, balanced composition whose bright and muted tones coalesce into a powerful statement, conveying a sense of fullness and inviting contemplation. The forms become simplified, structured into a system of strong lines and coloured planes rendered with broad, dense brushstrokes. But as Johan Pas, director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, would say: “Mortier’s compositions are not abstract; they are deeply rooted in figuration. His paintings are not gestural outbursts, but thoughtful deductions and abstractions of human beings and objects from his surroundings.”

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