Ceramic Signed Dominique Beaudart Representing A Stylized Solar Face

Glazed ceramic tile depicting a large stylized sun with an anthropomorphic face, signed Dominique Beaudart, active in Die (Drôme). The speckled blue-grey background contrasts with the brightness of the yellow and orange, highlighting the graphic and abstract features of the face.

The clean contours, rounded shapes and bright colors give the whole a dimension that is both playful and symbolic. This style is part of a neo-figurative vein of the 1980s to 1990s, mixing influences from Libre Figuration, late pop art and a certain modern primitivism. The inspiration recalls in places the graphic approaches of Picasso or Basquiat, with a desire for dialogue between scholarly art and spontaneous expression.