Paul Martin

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No hesitations - you will enter swiftly in the artworks of Paul Martin. Figurative, stylized up to the limit of a logo of somekind : you rapidly find your marks. Colours are bright, with predominant primary tones. The shred is clear, pleasant to scrutinze. The eyes strolls along, escaping to explore the whole of the paintings. Every detail is significant here, and you look for the remaining indice that will give the full meaning...

Thus, in "The Window of the knife shop -1989," Paul Martin has knives, saws, scissors, with the caption: "Our friend Paul Martin has hidden several items, and some of them are contondants: will you find them?" . It clouds the issue : the accessory is essential, and the core may not be that important. And vice versa.

Because actually, you are into this artwork without even realizing it : Paul Martin captures with a surprising efficacy the eye of the amateur. And he will not let go without having you embarking on his line of investigations. Who is this man? Friend or foe? So, sometimes friend, sometimes enemy! Why this brush? A wink to art? And why does Africa suddenly appears?

Discretly, always on a line apparently joyful, it is really very personal questions, existential, at which the work of Paul Martin refers to.

The artist, expressing himself with bright restraint, in contrast with the power of his brush, offers a few clues. For example: his attraction to the world of American "comics" , especially Dick Tracy. You may then return to these artworks to discover where is "Flattop Jones," the old enemy? And where is the good detective? He became a painter, his tool in the hand? Oh so ...

This is a wrought universe, at which you may just glance and take your thoughts with you for the day or also with which you may spend pleasant and deeper viewers, head-to-head ... It may even require a spiritual musical background - in this case a time with the "Madonna".

Artistically yours