Farah Atassi is a 38-year-old artist who was born in Belgium and today lives in Paris, France. Her art is a perfect blend of realistic and abstract and in a big way inspired by famous artists like Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, and Auguste Herbin.
“I do figurative paintings with an abstract painter’s language: the foundation of my work is geometric shapes,” she said in an interview for Consortium Museum. “From a strictly formal point of view, I acknowledge cubism as a source. I’m obviously not alone in admiring Picasso. His models, wives or mistresses, were also influenced by the desire he had for them.”
“For my part, I try to paint models as objects without the libidinous aspect. I try to make the figures come true but without the pathos. Matter, however, is vibrant: it embraces its own repentance, sometimes its thickened impasto. The painterly substance is what drives emotion,” the artist continued.
See her work below.
