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The eighteenth century in the development of French painting characterized by the emergence of amazing artists who depicted the fantasy world of the ruins of ancient civilizations. Among them was, for example, Robert Hubert, who created similar paintings so realistic and at the same time mystically exciting that his contemporaries seriously believed: he just spied it all in some parallel dimension, or having been there firsthand, or moving there in a dream.
Almost the same can be said about the fantastic paintings by Clerisso Charles Louis, who, like Hubert, studied painting in Italy, was amazed and admired by its ancient structures, dilapidated by time, for example, the Pantheon, the Colosseum, the pyramid Cestius, who played a fundamental, almost fatal role …
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On the canvases of Charles Louis, all this is embodied in a bizarre world, full of grandiose ruins of past highly developed civilizations. And among these fragments of a great past live the most ordinary peasants, artisans, officials, military, having adapted the former architectural magnificence to your immediate needs. Like Robert Hubert, Charles Louis was not a mystic, he was more likely to be a romantic. But where is this painter was able to spy completely unusual for our reality a life?
To some extent, these paintings are similar to a fairy tale, but this fairy tale too realistic not to believe in her, she too attractive and recognizable. Take a look at these pictures (photo and video), do not you think that you have already met all this somewhere? Not whether in a dream or in a past life? But assuming we are nothing we can’t come up with ourselves, as the wise say, but only draw thoughts, images, knowledge, finally, memories from the world treasury then it is possible that artists such as Clerisso Charles Louis, just able to look into another world. Peep, marvel at him strange beauty and be able to convey in the paintings his delight from what you’ve seen, your surge of emotions bordering the music of celestial harps, to all of us – living in such a boring and gray stretch of space and time …
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