Astre-bleu 1991

Jean-Paul Jerome made 'Astre-bleu' with paint, likely in 1991. The colours are flat and distinct, but those black outlines really make them sing! The surface is super smooth, you can tell he wasn't messing around with texture. It's not about the brushstrokes here, it's about the shapes, these rhythmic curves all interacting with each other. Look at that teal arc at the bottom, how it snuggles into the yellow, like they're sharing a secret. Those colours shouldn’t work, but somehow, they do. It's got this playful but serious vibe. It reminds me a little of early Mondrian, but with a folksier touch. Ultimately, it's the ambiguity that makes it so engaging. It doesn't tell you what to think or feel, it just invites you to play along with its visual game.