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Jean Dassonval's art combines anguished visions and a learned sense of composition. Often densely populated with dark or chalk-white shades, with anonymous, sometimes sexless revenants, Dassonval’s highly-ordered canvases also depict tantalizing faces, limbs, bodily contours obviously scrutinized in the past, or feared, or cherished: a distant or intimidated look in the eyes, a naked shoulder turned away, an arm lifted as if to signal or entice.... Telltale exactitudes, unforgettable gestures, which appear alongside other unsettling vestiges: snapshots, letters of the alphabet, arrows, rods, poles, crisscrossed barriers, fences. Usually no names remain, only puzzling ciphers, like former telephone numbers, addresses, or measurements that suddenly, from time to time and for no apparent reason, we seek to remember whether intimate to the artist or common to us all, such remnants are gathered, indeed foraged: vantage points, ambiences, anecdotes, souvenirs, appurtenances.
Approximate Word count = 391
Approximate Pages = 1.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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