luxure et envie 2014

'Luxure et envie’ by Cricorps is a bold statement rendered with stark lines and a color palette that feels both warm and unsettling. The figure sits surrounded by falling bank notes, a scene painted with a sense of unease and a very direct line. I wonder, what was Cricorps thinking, layering the personal, the intimate, with such blatant symbols of value and desire? There’s an undercurrent of anxiety here, isn’t there? It's like seeing a conversation between Francis Bacon and Alice Neel, the distortion of form meeting the rawness of emotion. The linear quality reminds me of comics but imbued with a painterly sensibility, a kind of brutal honesty in its simplicity. Maybe that is the point: money doesn't hide the human underneath. Painting is a form of expression that thrives on ambiguity, inviting us to question, to feel, and to connect with the artist’s vision, even when it’s uncomfortable.