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The riot (2026) Original Oil Painting by Nicolas Maureau
65 x 81 x 1.7cm (unframed) / 65 x 81cm (actual image size)
£1,714.36
Original artwork description
A yellow vest raised like a flag, a bare chest emerging from tear gas: this is a study for The Clouds, a series that will bring together twelve paintings around history's great turning points, where smoke, divine, sacrificial or from combat, becomes the very substance of rupture.
The young man stares straight ahead, neither victor nor defeated, simply standing. His posture owes something to Daumier's Barricade, that way of capturing a body at the exact moment of uprising, while the raised arm recalls Delacroix's Liberty and the statue that bears her name, a gesture that has carried the idea of emancipation for two centuries now.
The vest itself is a marker of its time, as the Phrygian cap once was, an ordinary piece of fabric elevated to banner. And the clouds around him are not celestial. They are tear gas, the same volatile matter as 19th century gunpowder in another chemical form. The smoke has not changed sides.
Materials used:
Oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 65 x 81 x 1.7cm (unframed) / 65 x 81cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
A yellow vest raised like a flag, a bare chest emerging from tear gas: this is a study for The Clouds, a series that will bring together twelve paintings around history's great turning points, where smoke, divine, sacrificial or from combat, becomes the very substance of rupture.
The young man stares straight ahead, neither victor nor defeated, simply standing. His posture owes something to Daumier's Barricade, that way of capturing a body at the exact moment of uprising, while the raised arm recalls Delacroix's Liberty and the statue that bears her name, a gesture that has carried the idea of emancipation for two centuries now.
The vest itself is a marker of its time, as the Phrygian cap once was, an ordinary piece of fabric elevated to banner. And the clouds around him are not celestial. They are tear gas, the same volatile matter as 19th century gunpowder in another chemical form. The smoke has not changed sides.
Materials used:
Oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 65 x 81 x 1.7cm (unframed) / 65 x 81cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
