About The Artist
Armand Delatour is a contemporary artist with a deep connection to the tactile and material qualities of his work, often exploring the space between painting and sculpture. His artistic journey began in earnest about 30 years ago, influenced by a memorable encounter with the renowned painter Brice M...
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Artist: Armand Delatour
Price:
$897.00
Medium: Painting
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Creation Date: 2022
Materials: Wax, Oil, Wood Panel
Dimensions: 15" x 12" x 1"
Finish: Unframed
About the Item: Artist's Statement: "Around 30 years ago, not long after I had started painting seriously, I was at a one-man exhibition of the great Brice Marden at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art when I visited the annex to get a cocktail. There was one other guy at the small bar table in an otherwise empty room, waiting for his coffee to be handed to him. He turned and dumped half of it down my front. I immediately recognized him as none other than Brice Marden. He apologized profusely, but I stopped him and said: 'No problem: how often is it that Brice Marden dumps coffee on your pants? They're worth more now.' We both had a good laugh. At any rate - I was certainly channeling his early work when I began work on this series. They are made with oil and beeswax on wood panels. While they look Minimalist at first glance, there are subtle shifts in color and texture that distinguish them from hard-edged abstraction. For me, it has always been about the surface, and the materials. Wax has a character unlike anything else. I use wax both hot (encaustic) and in a cold mixture with turpentine, blended with oil. The complementary underpainting, setting the stage for the wax and oil later, is done in thinned acrylic. I frame these in dimensional frames to emphasize their nature as 'objects' with the feel of icons, and their position somewhere between painting and sculpture."
Comes framed and ready to hang in maple floater frame.
Comes framed and ready to hang in maple floater frame.
About The Artist
Armand Delatour is a contemporary artist with a deep connection to the tactile and material qualities of his work, often exploring the space between painting and sculpture. His artistic journey began in earnest about 30 years ago, influenced by a memorable encounter with the renowned painter Brice Marden at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art. This moment, marked by humor and shared admiration for Marden's work, left a lasting impression on Delatour, who found inspiration in Marden's minimalist approach.
Delatour’s current series is crafted using oil and beeswax on wood panels, a medium that allows him to explore subtle shifts in color and texture that set his work apart from traditional hard-edged abstraction. His process involves a meticulous layering technique, starting with a complementary underpainting in thinned acrylic, followed by the application of wax—both hot (encaustic) and cold, blended with oil and turpentine. This method results in surfaces rich with character and depth, emphasizing the importance of materials and the physicality of the artwork.
Framed in dimensional settings, Delatour's pieces are presented as objects with the feel of icons, existing in a space that blurs the lines between painting and sculpture. His work is a testament to his belief that the surface and materials are as crucial as the visual image, creating art that invites both tactile and visual engagement.
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