Through smooth and precise stroke of his brush, so close to the classics he admires, David, Vermeer, Corot, Solnon give us a new image of Realism.
There reigns in his work an essential and direct observation but also an invention seen in his choice of the subjects that inhabit his canvas.
There is an intimacy in his work, undoubtedly born from the personal subject matter that he treats with intelligence and rigor. Everything is apparent silence and underlying vitality. With high quality materials, a carefully chosen palette and finesse he captures the transparencies and reflections of glass, the veins of wood, the shine of copper, the sensuality of velvet. A discrete vibration animates his compositions evocative of daily life transcended by invention and the emotion of a painter.
The elegance of his paintings and its range of color under beautiful lighting defies you to touch it to believe it is painted. The most familiar objects become tangible and fictitious at the same time. Solnons creations are nourished by his artistic sensitivity which encompasses the object and restores it to the canvas giving it his own personal interpretation.
Daniel Solnon also presents in addition to his magnificent oils on canvas a series of pastels on the theme of flowers. But what is pastel exactly?
Chalks, powdered, imitate colors,
That in the perfect tint offers the radiance of flowers,
Without brushes, the finger alone places and melts each shade.
The texture of paper preserves the imprint,
A cristal defends it, as does beauty
Pastel has the lustre of fragility
The DDG Gallery is very happy to present to you from now on the magnificent work of Daniel Solnon
