Flow | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

FLOW painting alias Arnaud Florentin, is a visual artist from Nancy, where he lives and works. Attracted by the field of plastic arts from a very young age, the young man practiced drawing, painting and sculpture with passion. When he left high school, his predispositions naturally led him to an education dedicated to the practice of arts. He then joined the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in his native town, from which he graduated in 2004. A fan of graffiti and spray painting, FLOW creates his works using the dripping technique, a specific way of applying the material to its support that was made famous by the American painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). Armed with a brush or a brush coated with acrylic, FLOW projects the material onto his canvas without ever touching it, thus creating a composition that is both original and spontaneous, made up of a superposition of fine, resolutely colored lines. "My painting is simple [he writes]: I paint feelings and emotions to transmit. This admirer of the work of the Franco-Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960), conceives each of his works as a pictorial performance, whether it is realized in the tranquility of his studio or live, on the occasion of live paintings. Also avid of music, FLOW likes to bathe in a stimulating sound universe to execute his portraits, which increases tenfold the painter's gestures, and, by the same token, accentuates the dynamism and the expressiveness of the represented subject.\n