Guided by his intuition, steering well clear of the influences of fad and fashion Maurice DOUARD's creative imagination has at last found itself in this mirror-play out of which emerge his vibrant, multifaceted subjects.
"Intimist" light illuminates the large, flat surfaces shattered as though by flintstone with the vitality of his powerfully rhythmic subjects.
Here we are perhaps in the presence of a certain tradition of French painting, that of VILLON, Roger de LA FRESNAYE...
Henceforth the everyday is invested by an ever present "intimisme".
Elements which fit into or penetrate one another are self-lighted by the use of pure colour. Thus comes into being an entirely new organisation of the canvas in which the subject itself becomes the source of dynamisme in a individualistic style of painting which regards itself free by "instinct".
It is from this point that DOUARD's work has made its logical progression toward the paintings he shows us today.
The desire to extract from his compositions the maximum aesthetic emotion possible by choosing and unadulterated surfaces of colour opposes two contrary, even dissonant methods of expression.
Whereas the relationship between volume, line and colour has been the inspiration and origin of his recent work, DOUARD has today reached a sort of "Purisme" where a certain treatment of light, tone and colour competes with the vibrations of his off-centred, realistic subjects obtained by purely dynamic means.
The signifiance of his designs holds its own with that of his paintings - they are totally at one; luminiferous they take on their own presence and intensity inserting themselves into the compositions, not as simple back - up value, but justifying the animation of the subjects in a general atmosphere of tranquillity and peace.
Maurice DOUARD is one of those rare people who has the courage of his conviction
Translated by Elizabeth KRAUSE DOUMEN Paris, Gilbert FERUCH