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PHILIPPE BOSIO - OIL PAINTING L'OPIUMAN AU SOLEIL
PHILIPPE BOSIO. Oil painting.
Title: L’Opiomane au Soleil
Artist: Philippe Bosio (French, b. 20th c.)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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French artist Philippe Bosio presents a surrealist tableau of a man in the throes of an opium-induced reverie. The composition centers on a semi-reclined figure, whose fragmented form is composed of radiating cylinders and mechanical motifs, suggesting both euphoria and disintegration. This psychedelic abstraction imbues the subject with a hallucinatory aura, reflecting the inner landscape of altered consciousness.
Bosio’s bold palette—rich in primary reds, blues, and yellows—intensifies the psychological charge of the work, while the crisp outlines and flattened perspective lend it a modernist clarity. This painting evokes themes of escapism, solitude, and the seductive peril of narcotic indulgence.
This work exemplifies Philippe Bosio’s distinctive fusion of figurative surrealism with social commentary. Through abstraction and symbolic distortion, L’Opiomane au Soleil probes the complex relationship between intoxication and identity, inviting the viewer into a meditative space where perception is both heightened and obscured.
PHILIPPE BOSIO. Oil painting.
Title: L’Opiomane au Soleil
Artist: Philippe Bosio (French, b. 20th c.)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:
Description:
French artist Philippe Bosio presents a surrealist tableau of a man in the throes of an opium-induced reverie. The composition centers on a semi-reclined figure, whose fragmented form is composed of radiating cylinders and mechanical motifs, suggesting both euphoria and disintegration. This psychedelic abstraction imbues the subject with a hallucinatory aura, reflecting the inner landscape of altered consciousness.
Bosio’s bold palette—rich in primary reds, blues, and yellows—intensifies the psychological charge of the work, while the crisp outlines and flattened perspective lend it a modernist clarity. This painting evokes themes of escapism, solitude, and the seductive peril of narcotic indulgence.
This work exemplifies Philippe Bosio’s distinctive fusion of figurative surrealism with social commentary. Through abstraction and symbolic distortion, L’Opiomane au Soleil probes the complex relationship between intoxication and identity, inviting the viewer into a meditative space where perception is both heightened and obscured.
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