By playing with elements of scale and perspective, Poire (The Pear) by the Québec based artist Philippe Lareau aims to start a dialogue with the viewer. A warm but subdued backdrop of peach and warm grey allow the central sliced pear to control the composition from a vantage point that is neither close nor distant. Lareau’s deliberate use of cropping and skewed perspective draws in the viewer,...
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Philippe Lareau is an artist living and working in Québec City, Canada. He graduated in visual arts at the University of Sherbrooke, and in Television Production at the Cégep de Jonquière. Philippe's work is closely linked to everyday objects, those that we use without paying attention to them but that accompany us on a daily basis. His work experiments with shape, color and texture through simple compositions and everyday motifs.
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