Description
Exael’s inspiration for portraits
Without exception, each portrait of Exaël is inspired by a real character he has crossed on the path of his life. The emotions felt, the veracity of the moment, magnified by the pictorial transformation, are a reflection of the intensity of a moment. The gaze remains a central element of this artistic moment, which contributes to the strength of the experience the artist invites you to share.
Use of colors
In the use he makes of colors, Exaël answers to a vital need: to embed in the canvas the fundamentality of the soil, almost always in orange tone, whether it is clay or terracotta, whether it comes from the hills of Vallauris, in the south of France, or from the more tropical village of Trois-Ilets, Martinique, in the Caribbean, where the vestiges of a local Pottery permeates the memory of everyday life.
It also responds to an intrinsic emotion, the indescribable one felt while strolling, at sunset, along the beaches of Juans-les-Pins, trying to guess the interweaving of glowing and infinite shades of a sky interrupted only by the steep slopes of the Esterel massif leaning towards Saint Tropez.
Style, at the crossroads of a multitude of influences
Exaël’s influences are undoubtedly multiple, which translates into a fusion of paintings, with a hyphen between them : Color. From Picasso to Matisse, via Gauguin, and closer to us, Warhol, and also Basquiat, Exaël does not deny his impregnation to these constant figures. And if freedom still exists, it finds a meaning in each of the portraits painted by Exaël.
