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Art Deco Style Cubist Oil Painting "Fractured" by Pascal Jarrion
Art Deco Style Cubist Oil Painting "Fractured" by Pascal Jarrion
"Fractured" is an original oil on wood panel painting by French artist Pascal Jarrion, created in 2025. The composition is a classic Cubist still life, built around a guitar rendered in warm wood tones, a tall green bottle, and a pale figural form, all overlapping within a shallow, tightly organized picture plane.
Pascal's distinctive visual language draws on the still life tradition of early Cubism, breaking familiar objects into interlocking planes and reassembling them with a strong sense of pattern and texture. Passages of faux wood grain and plaid sit alongside flat fields of color, giving the painting a tactile, collage-like quality despite being entirely painted.
The guitar anchors the composition, its curved body, dark sound hole, and taut strings rendered with careful attention to texture and material. Around it, a green glass bottle and a simplified white figure introduce contrasting shapes and cooler tones, while warm reds, ochres, and browns keep the eye moving across the canvas.
This kind of still life, gathering musical instruments and everyday objects into a single fractured composition, connects directly to the language of early twentieth-century Cubism, a tradition Pascal continues to draw from and reinterpret in his own contemporary work. The layered planes and varied surface textures reward close, extended viewing.
Measuring 20 by 16 inches, "Fractured" is a well-proportioned painting suited to a study, music room, or gallery wall, and is presented in a silver frame. The painting is signed by Pascal Jarrion at the lower right.
