• Artist : Maryse Casol
• Sennelier Oil on Cotton Canvas
• Canvas and Frame : Bambino Gianfrancesco
• 30" x 24" - 76 cm x 61 cm
• Made in Canada
• Signed Casol at the bottom right
• 2003
• Authenticity certificate signed by Maryse Casol in 2024 included
• Countersigned, titled and dated on the reverse: Printemps 2003
• 2003 Studio photo of the artwork : Daniel Charpentier
• 2004 Virtual tour photos of the Exhibition : Jean-François Côté
• 2004 Photo of the exhibition : Mickaël Casol
• 2024 Photos : Iegor
Life, nature and health has always been a passion for Maryse Casol.
Painted by Maryse Casol in 2003, using Sennelier oil made in Paris, France at 3 Quai Voltaire facing the Louvre (painting of choice by the greatest artists since 1887, such as Degas, Cézanne and Picasso) , on a custom cotton canvas, mounted on a frame in linden wood made by Bambino Gianfrancesco, owner of Les Cadres et Moulures Majestic, one of the best Italian artisans in the world.
Graduate from the Istituto Tecnico Settore Tecnologico school in Campobasso, Mr. Bambino was also a Track and Field Champion in Europe in the 1960s before coming to Canada!
2024
On the Tuesday November 5, 2024, the Maryse Casol paintings, Arbre Symbolique (2003), Pays Catalan (2004), and Tempête en Pays Catalan (2004) were purchased at the Iegor Auction House in Montreal, Canada! Thank you to the new collectors!
Part of their Canadian Paintings art sale, the auction took place in North America, on the exciting day of the USA Presidential elections, where Mr. Donald Trump won vs Kamala Harris.
Three significant pieces from the early days of Maryse Casol's career : These artworks were first showcased in a solo exhibition two decades ago on rue Côte des Neiges, just steps from the University of Montreal.
Each piece reflects Maryse Casol's rich inspirations from her travels in the 1990s, blending her experiences from the South of France with the serene beauty of Sainte-Dorothée, Quebec. Owning these paintings means inviting a sense of freedom and tranquility into your life, a journey to a peaceful space and time that only art can provide.
2020
May 2020, Maryse Casol writes the text (Philosophy and Theory) on her painting Arbre Symbolique.
2006
On the 31st of May, 2006, Maryse Casol exhibited her paintings at the 65th Edition of the Réseau HEC Montreal Charity Golf Tournament at le Golf Les Quatre Domaines, 18400 Chemin Notre-Dame, Mirabel, Québec, Canada!
The painting Géranium et Fruits by Maryse Casol was exhibited and given to a gentleman as a draw, and 4 other paintings were also exhibited at the entrance of the restaurant. Amongs those : Arbre Symbolique and Passion Immortelle. Casol was proud to be a sponsor of this event to raise funds for the HEC Montreal students!
2004
The painting Arbre Symbolique is part of the Maryse Casol art exhibition, "Empreintes, effets d'impressions" at the Sidev Building, 5216 Chemin Côte des Neiges, in Montreal, Canada, from the November 29 - December 12, 2004, organized by the Casol family.
2003
2003 was an amazing year! Maryse Casol completed her studies in arts in December in Canada at l'Académie des Arts et Beaux-Arts de Varennes, published her first book for $12,000 with texts written by Sam Aberg for les Éditions Renaissance, had built a collection of over 15 paintings, and showed some of them at 3 exhibitions at the Novotel Hotel, Marriott Chateau Champlain Hotel and the Mount Stephen Club. It is also the year that her son, Mickaël Casol, started the HEC Montreal business school in September.
Trees are an integral part of the universe and of ourselves. They are for me a great source of inspiration and vitality. The tree symbolizes freedom, the flowers of the Earth, life, eloquence, transcendence and elevation up to the Light.
My desire for spiritual and mystical transcendence is expressed by the representation of the tree and its symbolism. The tree symbolizes my ontological reality. By dematerializing its shapes (flat shapes) and using pure colors without shades, I express my quest of ontological elevation for an evolution to the mystical transcendence. The refinement of matter to the spiritual allows us to evolve towards spiritual transcendence through knowledge, reason and reflection.
The entelechy of self-fulfillment then manifests itself through light, simplicity, beauty, harmony, virtue, love, joy, knowledge, eloquence and greatness of the soul.
In classical-modern art, the artwork is subject to a composition-rhetoric. There are several forms of compositions, the main ones being 1) the horizontal, 2) the classic diagonal, 3) the frontal diagonal, 4) the pyramidal, 5) the vertical, 6) the narrative, 7) the horizontal narrative, 8) the narrative horizontal and 9) the frontal horizontal, each carrying a deep iconographic sense.
The composition of the artwork shown here, Arbre Symbolique, is a frontal horizontal, made in post-Fauvism.
In a frontal horizontal composition, the protagonist element is placed at the edge of the composition, preceded by a minimal spatial entry. The elements are positioned vertically, but expand horizontally. When you want to express something of importance, you use the horizontal frontal. In this case, it's the symbol of the tree that is important : the freedom, knowledge and intellectual transcendence.
Fauvism is an art movement whose evolution spread out only from 1903 to 1910, but which is the substrate of modern art. The word "fauve" is used for the first time by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles, during the Salon d'Automne of 1905 at the Grand Palais in Paris, who exclaimed: "Donatello among the wild beasts!" (with reference to the 2 sculptures in marble by Albert Marque in Renaissance style, standing among these Fauvist paintings), seeing the works of the painters, in pure and vivid colors on exhibition by Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees Van Dongen, Charles Camoin and Jean Puy.
Fauvism expresses the sense of looking at oneself : ontos. (ref. definition of onto: Element, from the Greek ôn, ontos "being". Color translates into a search for oneself. It is ontocolorism.
Fauvism art deconstructs nature to mould it according to the individuality of the painter. It is symbolized and exalted by colors. The space is combined by the chromatic exaltation and the eradication of perspective.
The eradication of perspective by raising the horizon line in the work is a way of expressing the present time (presentism). The truncation of some elements is a very important parameter, allowing to express the kinetics-temporal (movement in time), and kinetics-light effects (movement of light which becomes the subject). Hence, in the Maryse Casol painting Arbre Symbolique the combination of movement, time and light, is the principal subject of the work.
The expressive power is created by the purification of the flat shapes, the exuberance of color, and the simplicity of large deconstructed spaces.
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