Luxury - a synonym for magnificence
"Do not try to understand what was painted there, listen to your feelings, which the picture causes" - experienced in art person addressed the author of these lines.
Probably.
Or - it is impossible, because the horse's head remains the same with any perception of reality, even if this reality is pretty bored.
"Why not?" - Pablo Picasso inquired in his aphorisms, and he had a reason for it.
The artist is entitled to an unconditional "yes" at the very moment when his soul is illuminated by creative revelation.
There are people who are constantly, sincerely and completely faced with the similar state of affairs.
De Gournay was able to get these people "under its wing" and gave us all a chance to abandon reality, which is "pretty bored." And - to create different, more precisely, change own perception of reality to harmonious and peaceful. A picture fascinates and tries to form mood. We have to admit that it did it, and that means that the artist was able to find that invisible thread stretched from his impulse to the viewer’s heart. The formula is a bit complicated, but universal, allowing get closer to understanding the masterpiece nature.
To argue about whether the picture by De Gournay is masterpiece is not worth it. Not worth it, that is all.
Enthusiastic breathing, like a kind of contrasting douche, is replaced by calm enumeration of great achievements, with the help of which the company masters easily fascinate connoisseurs of beauty.
Wallpapers and fabrics, on which drawing gets special charm thanks to material texture, can be viewed unacceptably long. However, let, let yourself enjoy it, enjoy leisurely, and without worrying about passing time. Time has a habit to pass, so what to spend it for, if not for that? ..
Usual and wonderful, soothing the eyes and extending the perception of reality (yes-yes, the same!) articles of porcelain, decorated by De Gournay, most certainly will not impress. - But only those who stubbornly refuses to be surprised by anything. Let us leave these gloomy skeptics with slight regret. And surely look at the drawings on porcelain, for this enjoyment is incredible and pleasure is indescribable.
Fairytale allows to touch itself, to feel itself, and even - to own itself. All this is fully applied to furniture, which has experienced the beneficial effects of De Gournay wizards. The combination of tenderness and passion, excitement and elegance, fine work and bold flight of thought forces to admire and desire greater.
In life. In creation. In love.
Finally, in its reflection that remembers a lot and can tell a lot. However - it is better to listen and hear. Hear how tremulous sounds fancily shimmer, playing with light, sounds which were taken from the heart at the moment when you see how picture and mirror are combined.
New York, Paris, Moscow, Istanbul, Shanghai, London - exhibition spaces around the world - only part of a huge iceberg, which is designed to surprise and delight.
Luxury - a synonym for magnificence. Magnificence cannot deny itself the pleasure to flow out of harmony.
De Gournay does not deny itself the pleasure and the pleasure for us.
Dmitriy Chuburkov.