Expressionist Large-Format Painting in a Paris Museum Gallery

5 October 2017 · Paris

A large-format expressionist painting dominates a white gallery wall in Paris, its dark palette of deep blue, charcoal, and rust pulling figures and forms out of near-total darkness. White gestural strokes suggest suspended bodies and skeletal structures — raw, urgent marks that hold the canvas together through force of energy rather than resolution. The painting commands the room; the white walls around it exist only to keep it contained.