096AT2025
Artist : Nicolas Monjo
Oil and acrylic on canvas
h39.4x31.9x0.8inch
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Artwork | painting |
Size in inch (Height/Lenght/Width) | 39.4x31.9x0.8 |
Medium | Acrylic and oil on canvas |
Type | Unique work |
Signature | Signed artwork |
certificate of authenticity | Work sold with a certificate of authenticity |
Availability | Only sold on the internet |
Packaging | We pack it ourselves with care |
Insurance | The artwork is insured during delivery |
Delivery | delivery within 8 days |
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In Bleu Trafic, Nicolas Monjo presents a dense and compelling work that lies at the crossroads of narrative painting and contemporary satire. Created with acrylic and oil on canvas, this 100 x 81 cm composition unfolds as a visual theatre where human figures, trapped in a confined space, struggle between reality and illusion.
The French artist, true to his symbolic universe and masterful sense of color, plays here with the contrast between blue—the color of calm and dreams—and the tension that permeates the scene. The viewer faces a vehicle overloaded with faces, bodies, and anxious gazes, crammed together in a tight enclosure. The inside of this bus becomes a powerful metaphor for modern life: a humanity compressed, suffocated by its own social and technological illusions.
In the foreground, a young girl stares straight ahead, gripping handlebars with determination. Her pale face and turquoise mask evoke both purity and disillusionment. Beside her stands a strange rabbit wearing a gas mask—a recurring figure in Monjo’s work—symbolizing the loss of innocence and the need to shield oneself from a toxic world. The entire scene breathes with bittersweet irony: the machine moves forward, but where to?
The background is brimming with detail: a blue dog, a character wearing a virtual reality headset, another with 3D glasses… All these elements point toward a reflection on digital alienation and the fracture between perception and reality. Nicolas Monjo paints, with both humor and gravity, our dependence on images and our need to escape reality through screens and illusions of control.
The omnipresent blue acts as an emotional thread—it is the blue of transport, of networks, of dreams, but also of distance and coldness. The title Bleu Trafic thus takes on multiple meanings: it suggests both the flow of traffic and the traffic of images, emotions, and data that circulate endlessly through our modern lives.
Monjo’s pictorial language—immediately recognizable—combines expressive drawing with rich, vibrant texture. His faces, both grotesque and tender, evoke the tradition of humanist grotesque art, somewhere between Bosch and Dubuffet, yet reimagined for our overstimulated era.
For collectors of contemporary art seeking an original, striking, and symbolic work, Bleu Trafic is a powerful choice for online art acquisition. It is a painting that demands attention: it questions, disturbs, and ultimately transforms the viewer’s gaze—on crowds, on progress, and on ourselves.
Owning a painting like Bleu Trafic means inviting into one’s space a fragment of humanity—caught between chaos and poetry. Each of Nicolas Monjo’s works tells a story that is both intimate and collective. Buying a painting from this artist is to support an engaged artistic vision, one that is both critical and deeply humanistic.
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