Original artwork description:

The pumkin chimera ( La chimère au potiron ) , is a square acrylic painting on cotton canvas stretched over wood. This pretty, imaginary and very chimerical monster wears a strange headdress that ends in... a pumpkin!

This painting is part of the Medieval Bestiary series, inspired by the art of the late Middle Ages, which saw the flourishing of illuminated manuscripts dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, sometimes illustrated with incredible chimeras with rather coarse but expressive features, such as the British Luttrell Psalter (1320-1340). These particularly zany drolleries have given rise to this series, which recreates in the style and hues of the period, invented or reworked drolleries, on gilded or coppered backgrounds adorned with friezes and imagined on the principle of the cartoons of the upholsterers of yesteryear, flower motifs or styles repeated here and there to furnish the picture.

The work's square format reinforces the idea of the durability of this medieval art past, with its phantasmagorical traditions firmly rooted in the eternal imagination.

Materials used:

cotton canvas on wood, acrylic paint

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