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Osculation (2025) Original Acrylic Painting by paul fowler
60.96 x 60.96 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 60.96 x 60.96cm (actual image size)
£953.65
Original artwork description
Osculation is an abstract meditation on Paris, a city where art, history, literature, and memory continually overlap. Rather than depicting recognizable landmarks, the painting explores the experience of encountering Paris through fragments—glimpses of architecture, traces of language, weathered surfaces, and cultural memory accumulated across centuries.
The composition incorporates reproductions of French newspapers, acknowledging both the physical fabric of the city and the artistic legacy of early twentieth-century Paris. These printed elements reference the innovations of Georges Braque and the Cubist experiments that transformed everyday materials into visual language. Here, fragments of text become more than historical artifacts; they function as pieces of a larger narrative that remains intentionally incomplete.
Layers of translucent color, scraped surfaces, and overlapping forms suggest a city revealed gradually through experience. Passages of blue and black emerge from warm neutral fields, creating moments of clarity that dissolve almost as quickly as they appear. The painting resists a fixed reading, much like memory itself, where impressions overlap and evolve over time.
The title, Osculation, describes a point of contact between two curves. In this work, that idea becomes a metaphor for the meeting of past and present, observation and recollection, place and imagination. The painting occupies the space where these conditions touch, creating a visual dialogue between what is seen and what is remembered.
Through collage, texture, and layered abstraction, Osculation reflects Paris not as a destination or image, but as an accumulation of encounters. It is a city experienced through fragments—pieces of history, language, art, and memory that continually intersect to create something larger than the sum of their parts.
Materials used:
Acrylic paint, cold wax medium, canvas, wood
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60.96 x 60.96 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 60.96 x 60.96cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Organic
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
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Original artwork description
Osculation is an abstract meditation on Paris, a city where art, history, literature, and memory continually overlap. Rather than depicting recognizable landmarks, the painting explores the experience of encountering Paris through fragments—glimpses of architecture, traces of language, weathered surfaces, and cultural memory accumulated across centuries.
The composition incorporates reproductions of French newspapers, acknowledging both the physical fabric of the city and the artistic legacy of early twentieth-century Paris. These printed elements reference the innovations of Georges Braque and the Cubist experiments that transformed everyday materials into visual language. Here, fragments of text become more than historical artifacts; they function as pieces of a larger narrative that remains intentionally incomplete.
Layers of translucent color, scraped surfaces, and overlapping forms suggest a city revealed gradually through experience. Passages of blue and black emerge from warm neutral fields, creating moments of clarity that dissolve almost as quickly as they appear. The painting resists a fixed reading, much like memory itself, where impressions overlap and evolve over time.
The title, Osculation, describes a point of contact between two curves. In this work, that idea becomes a metaphor for the meeting of past and present, observation and recollection, place and imagination. The painting occupies the space where these conditions touch, creating a visual dialogue between what is seen and what is remembered.
Through collage, texture, and layered abstraction, Osculation reflects Paris not as a destination or image, but as an accumulation of encounters. It is a city experienced through fragments—pieces of history, language, art, and memory that continually intersect to create something larger than the sum of their parts.
Materials used:
Acrylic paint, cold wax medium, canvas, wood
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60.96 x 60.96 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 60.96 x 60.96cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Organic
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
