The Sorrow

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“The Sorrow” is a contemporary painting on paper mounted on canvas.by Philipe Croq.

Philipe Croq’s drawing and painting invite us to dream and to dialogue with our childhood. Dreamlike forms, the world of the circus, animal, human and plant figures, sometimes evanescent, sketched, imperfect. Images that leave us free to tell ourselves stories.
 For more spontaneity, Philippe Croq first works on paper, only once his painting is finished does he marble it on the canvas.

“The Sorrow” is a very small painting that takes up the usual attributes of Philippe Croq’s paintings: marouflaged paper, imaginary and enigmatic characters, writing, washed-out colours. But above all, it offers great freedom of interpretation. The author leaves it up to the spectator to make his own way. Everyone will have their own reading, guided by the drawing, the text, the colour…