Surrealist Painting Chinese cooking sweet to achieve a deliciously balanced dish

Vendredi 7 septembre 2007 5 07 /09 /2007 07:20

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REGNER's work -- secret, unclassifiable -- might puzzle the spectator. His monsters, might trouble him, but the viewer should be reassured by the charm of the lovely feminine figures wandering here and there, and by the sensual beauty of the painting as an object beautiful for its technique and color. As in Chinese cooking, REGNER combines the sweet and sour, the bitter and the sweet to achieve a deliciously balanced dish. He uncovers those monsters. He creates them, untangles them from the threads of his subconscious.

Throughout history, art has created monsters to express the complexity of the human nature. Jupiter is by turns a bull, a swan, an eagle, and the Minotaur -- a man-bull who helps Theseus realizes that he is fighting the dark and bestial within himself.

John-Capar LAVATER (1741-1801) had studied that topic in his "Essays on Physiognomony". In his plates #100, volume 2, he compares a man's face with that of a bull's. Who is the human? Who is the bull? One or the other, or both.

A text written by Henry LHOTELLIER. This text appeared in the magazine, Bononia, no. 18 of the first semester of 1991. This review is published by the Association des amis du musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer. (Translated and edited into English by Dan Harder, Christine Lemor-Drake and Catherine Theilen Burke).