“La comedia del arte” by Pablo RÉJAS

"la comedia del arte" oil on canvas by pablo réjas la commedia dell'arte revisited by the artist. Oil on canvas signed and dated 73 on the back 65 X 81cm the artist, a committed and enraged painter, a working painter as he defined himself. Lots of violence in his painting and in the interpretation of faces or outstretched fists. Famous in sarcelles, for having left a mural and a large painting mixing religion and secularism. A street and a nursery are named after him. He was born in may, we must see a sign there. Pablo rejas defines himself as a working painter. He was born to a basque father and a flemish mother in 1924. He began working on drawing in the schools of montparnasse and montmartre. This existence will be stopped by the years of war which will mark his character and his desire to defend peace. He is above all a painter of man for peace. From his years of heroic resistance, he does not want to draw any praise, decoration or merit. From his eventful professional career, diver, longshoreman, dock worker, lumberjack, from his qualities as a healer, pablo rejas draws on the depths of the human soul. From the 1950s, he began to participate in numerous exhibitions, alone or in groups, notably alongside bernard lorjou and mottet. Inspired by a torn reality and its torments vis-à-vis a humanity that is capsizing, pablo rejas presents us with a painting that is frank and painful, passionate and tormented. As the art critic gérard xuriguera expresses it, "pablo rejas's painting is difficult and demanding. It urges humility and encourages us to look at ourselves without complacency, as we refuse to imagine ourselves. Painting that does not care no anecdotal verism, no esoteric speculation, it invests us and constrains us by the sole forces it emits".

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