Dragon rouge 1999

"Dragon rouge" by Rene Duvillier is an emotional landscape constructed with thick layers of red and white paint. Can you imagine Duvillier wrestling with this fiery medium, pushing and pulling the paint across the surface, trying to give shape to something he could feel but not quite see? I'm particularly drawn to the dynamic contrast between the bold, saturated reds and the stark whites. Look how the white paint seems to cascade down, carving out forms within the red. It's almost like a dance between control and chance. What was Duvillier thinking? I'm reminded of painters like Joan Mitchell who also used abstraction to explore raw, unfiltered emotion. Painting is like keeping a diary; each gesture, each color choice, a trace of a feeling, made visible. It's a reminder that art is a conversation, a way for artists to speak to one another across time and space.