I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.
–Georges Rouault
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I’ve been a big fan of French painter/printmaker Georges Rouault (1871-1958) from the moment many years ago when I stumbled across Miserere, a book of of his etchings. It was raw and expressive work often dealing with religious themes and those inner promptings, as he calls them in the quote above. It was a work that was very influential on my early Exiles series.
His paintings also possess the same rawness and expression of his etchings, maybe even more so, and I find myself immediately drawn to the dark line work and deep colors within them, not to mention the pure emotional feeling of them.
Now, if only I can obey my own inner promptings…
Redtree Times 