Artist of the Month:Florence Bachelier, The blue Note

Los Angeles, May 2008, The Blue note

It swings lile a Jazz quartet.  It is a swing painting with a continuous pulse that keeps the pieces moving right along.  The melody is introduiced and moved from one color to another, incorporating improvisation, full of fresh joy and vigor.

A swing painting like music to be danced to, offering no changes in rythm or tempo, combining Jazz with dance.  It offers the harmonies and improvisations as Jazz does, with a more emphasized rhythm of colors underneath it.  It is a dynamic style emerging with syncopated rhythms of colors; the "colors of Liberty".

Some of her paintings are full of agitated energy, while others are more lyrical, creating a visual moment of near  silence. The colors and the forms are reacting to each other, particularly the dancing rhythm of her very specific light blue touch. like a leitmotiv.  Her paintings represent the feeling of Jazz, even though it might not be evident a first glance.

The colors and forms are reacting to each other, particularly the dancing rhythm of her very specific light Blue touch, like a leitmotiv

 

Her paintings represent the feeling of Jazz, even though it might not be evident a first glance.  The use of warm colors shows the unpredictability of Jazz, as well as the vibrancy of that music form.

 The tension, between, apparently, conflicting themes of warped harmonies and dissonances of Jazz adds energy to the picture.

 

It is rocking and rolling.

She produced paintings full of lyricism and humor.  It gives us a sense of connection with the popular world and ourselves.  It allows us to feel as if we are not alone.  Like music, her works of art share our good times and bad, and with that we see how it affects our emotions.

 

The fact is that the paintings of Florence Bachelier are incredibly vibrant, powerful, spontaneous, and penetratingly emotional.

 

 

I just wanted to say that there is more to her paintings that what we see.  Her painting could attain an emotive power comparable to that of music.  Some reveled in its explosive energy and the exotism.

 

Like Pollock we have the feeling, that Florence Bachelier “thinks, it should be enjoyed, just as a music is enjoyed”

It is a notated work of improvisation and rhythm, a blue note.

 

Florence Bachelier is a very interesting French artist, she is "La vie parisienne". 

 

* Have an opportunity to purchase her works, it will change your life!  www.florencebachelier.com

 

 

 

 

Tags: Jazz, Paris, Paintings