Crystal amoureux 1934

Jacques Hérold made this painting, Crystal amoureux, with oil on canvas. There’s a mysterious dreamscape here, a landscape that feels like both earth and otherworld. I imagine Hérold layering these dark, earthy colors, scraping back, then building up again, creating this strange place. I sympathize with him, trying to create this world out of color and feeling. The white figure stretches across the painting, a smooth contrast to the textures around it. And look at that dark sky, a heavy presence looming above! I wonder what he was thinking when he brushed that in. I see echoes of surrealist painters like Tanguy, but with a uniquely personal twist. Like a conversation across time, artists build on what’s come before, transforming and responding in their own way. Painting is like that, an ongoing, embodied expression, never fixed, always open to new ways of seeing and feeling.