Fanfaron

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Admired for strength and beauty across the ages, the peacock becomes the dramatic focal point of French National Leopold Clouvel’s impasto Fanfaron painting. Capturing the bird’s extravagantly bold colors and symbolic all-seeing eyes, Clouvel reveals his mastery of Van Gogh’s use of thick, swirling strokes of paint that create texture and dimension.

Clouvel’s artistic mastery of impasto captures the brilliance of his eloquent Fanfaron and seems to bring it to life. Impasto painting brings a level of energy and vitality to a canvas that flat surfaces cannot deliver. With layers of paint so thick that palette knife or brush strokes become visible and contribute to the overall effect, it creates a dramatic three-dimensional quality.

The technique that Clouvel uses on Fanfaron reflects his intensity and emotions, creating the expressive impact that appeals to select collectors. The peaks and valleys of the thick layers catch the light and seem to bring movement to the impasto painting.

An eccentric and unconventional artist, Clouvel paints in all mediums on any material to achieve the depth of emotional expression that characterizes his work. With no formal art education, he uses his God-given talent to create avant-garde masterpieces that have satisfied discerning collectors since the 1980s.