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GUYSEL, master of the Art of Figuration as Abstraction.
When one observes carefully the works of this artist, one notes that she displays a real talent with regard to her creations of oil on canvas. Indeed, whether in her compositions or in her abstract ones, she always applies herself to wooing the observer’s vision by the intrinsic qualities of her pictures.
If one studies in a technical and artistic way the work representing Pelicans on the surface of the water, one stands in admiration of the visual result. The palette of colours, pleasing to the eye, exactly provides all the shades that such a subject must suggest. The chiaroscuros are magnificently transcribed to best combine with the outlines that form the principal volume of the picture. These winged creatures as subject matter, represented in the centre, could have shocked, but this is not the case for the contrasts associated with the forms remain indisputably pleasant to admire. The posture of these birds adds a qualitative element to better impress a living spirit upon the composition as a whole.
Concerning Guysel’s abstract creations, the picture Ways elevates her talent significantly. The juxtaposition of the circular, triangular and linear forms present in the drawing, associated with the pyramid effect of the central axis of the picture, accurately predestines the meaning of the title of the work, Ways, letting us better understand the artist’s symbolic message. Human existence leads to a certain elevation that can be spiritual, intellectual or social; this picture expresses in its variety of forms and colours the entirety of these ways of elevation. Earthly life consists of many ways, sometimes pleasant, sometimes treacherous. When analysing this picture, one easily understands the artist’s message: the triangular forms on the left remind us of the constraints and the troubles of our existence, while the circular forms situated on the right suggest its sweet happiness.
The central pyramid of the work, embellished with a dark arabesque, increases the intensity of the composition, while implying that this wished for elevation can sometimes encounter unpredictable difficulties. The palette of colours, chosen with a rigorous precision, again adds to this eloquent composition; the shades of the greens, and of the oranges, the yellows and the blues, assert the artist’s message, hinting at the symbolic differentiation that a slice of life can represent. Guysel remains an artist; she will always know how to offer our curious eye works of great pictorial sensitivity.
Alain Vermont - Critique d’Art.