The Mathematician
The plastic rupture of natural images, their semi-formal introduction, is articulated in a unitary way. These are the characteristic elements of the painter's new language in his black period.
Détail central d' Au fil de la nuit, deux personnages masqués, à gauche, la femme crapaud et à droite le bourgeois raté.
In this painting, exteriority loses its value in order to better bring out other, more secret aspects that are captured in the eyes of the layman. Who is the being hidden behind the mask?
Rochez builds a plastic ensemble that, without imitating the model, adheres closely to the feeling of concern.
Masked character scrolling through the night.
Masked character defiant in the night.
Female mask
Painting being part of a series entitled (black period) or Rochez highlights the crazy matter, it makes us discover a language that strives to give the image cognitive content. ;Masque de Toulouse Lautrec 1989.;(Oil on canvas )