Mucha - collection : Signatures (2023) Original Acrylic Painting by jérôme hémain

Every formal aspect of a real picture with its smears, its pigments, its medium,its size, in front of you hanging on the wall is a mystery. One of the most peculiar aspect could be the signature itself the way the artist leaves his name (or not) somewhere on the right or the left at the bottom of the picture. What does it says about this person as an artist? As an abstract painter i can not think of adding such a strong formal object like the signature on a painting without it being the painting itself (so i leave my name at the back). Then thinking about the "signature" being the painting itself, i moved to make a signature-painting an actual painting which subject is a "signature". This -MUCHA- painting is some kind of draft toward this idea and maybe i will not go any further, but it allowed me to apprehend the strong formal and meanings implications of using an artist signature as a graphic item a motif in its own right.I approached it as if it was a real object, a thing, which is the way i see my abstract paintings, real by the "paint". I represent the way i can more or less clumsily this signature on the surface of a painting which whatever i do is bond to the field of "representation".The way the two are connecting is the interesting part. Then the question is : why Mucha?

Materials used:

Acryl paint, canvas, wooden strecher, light varnish and string.

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 100 x 45 x 2.05cm (unframed) / 100 x 43cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Organic
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative