Roger Chapelain-Midy - Untitled

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s, encompassing all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

Roger Chapelain-Midy is an artist with an extremely multifaceted personality. A traditionalist painter, his work as an engraver and illustrator allows him to unleash his creativity, as we see in this lithograph with a surreal subject. Figuration is his fundamental language, from which he never strays. However, Chapelain-Midy is capable of various expressive modes, managing to move from a more terse and objectifying style to a more synthetic and painterly brushstroke, as in this lithograph.

Roger Chapelain-Midy, Paris 1904–1992, was a French painter, lithographer, illustrator, and set designer. Passionate about the Renaissance, Poussin, and the 17th-century, he championed a classical tradition in the age of contemporary art. He painted primarily still lifes and landscapes. He received the Carnegie Award in 1938. He created murals for the fourth arrondissement of Paris, the Théâtre National de Chaillot, and the Institut Agronomique de Paris, as well as decorations for cruise ships. As a decorator and costume designer from 1944, he worked on Rameau's Les Indes Galantes in 1952 and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Paris Opera in 1954. The success of his work led to him working for the Cologne Opera. He received the main theater prize at the São Paulo International Biennial in 1962.

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