South Beach,
Espanola-Way, February 2005:
On
the sidewalk in front of the Marcel Gallery,
Pierre Marcel completes
7 paintings .
Coast
Guard painting day 2 : sand beach morphes to corks. It is still
a little dull. I will bring more life, see the progress
The preparations, layout
and background colors were done in my studio in Saint Clair
Sur Epte, France. I brought the canvases rolled, and upon
my arrival on South Beach, I restreched them and set my temporary
art studio on the sidewalk and start to paint immediatly.
The
largest piece is this play on Coast Guard and my favorite
MUMM Champagne. (Cordon
Rouge)
I thought that the MUMM
logo (a red stripe, the famous "Cordon Rouge") looks like the U.S.A.
Coast Guard one.
I was always intrigued by the beautiful sight of Coast Gard clippers
or helicopters blazing over the Miami coast line. A good drug bust
would certainly deserve some good champagne popping among the crew,
right? And in the context of a difficult time between the French
and the Bush administration recently, I intended to bring in my
painting a salvator peace gesture. (Salvator
Doily style, precisely) The sand of
the beach morphs in champagne corks all over, sea rises majestically
on a doily shape, very much for the proper setting of a apaising
peace-cake, and Mumm champagne joyfully pops in the aqua blue Miami
sky to celebrate the American-French reconciliation.
Coast Guard painting day 4 : Corks
start to pop...
and then day 8 : more corks pops happily...
Coast Guard, completed February 2005 in Miami Beach. Acrylique on canvas.
The other paintings done that season in Miami and in France :
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