"Canticle of the Sun" modern 4-piece painting, by Donnay

• Title of work: "Sonnengesang" four-part painting (complete work)
• Artist: Etienne Donnay
• Dimensions (format): approx. 150 x 90 x 2.5 cm
• Individual dimensions: 1 part 40x40cm, 1 part 20x50cm, 1 part 30x90cm, 1 part 60x40cm
• Technique/material: acrylic painting on canvas
• four ready-stretched real wood stretcher frames
• including gallery certificate of authenticity
• signed on the front with ED
• Framing on request

The artist Etienne Donnay

Etienne Donnay is a persistent and unwavering contemporary artist who does not want to be pinned down stylistically. He visualizes his impressions in free, expressionistic interpretations, whereby his path also leads to Pop Art. In this way, he inspires with avant-garde works that find buyers all over Europe. His works show that he basically prefers a strong and luminous palette. Etienne justifies this with the fact that colours can have a great influence on a person's mood, which he wants the viewer to feel incessantly.

Donnay is tireless. While he explains his work and approach to visitors in his studio, his thoughts keep wandering. For example, to his next project, a large-format mural, a commissioned work in a highly reduced color scheme. Donnay needs the psychological challenge of painting, the smell of fresh paint and the feeling of brushes in his hand as an elixir of life. His otherwise rather shrill, color-intensive and expressive abstract motifs brought Donnay not only admiration from the beginning. Critics were also irritated by his background: the Dresden artist had not trained his painting talent at the art academy, but entirely self-taught. Although Donnay had developed it from time to time in various painting courses and lessons by renowned painters, he always emphasized that his own school had influenced him more strongly.
His pictorial language is powerful and multi-layered. In addition to the brush, he uses various utensils with which he experiments in a controllable manner when applying the colors. His bare hands are also frequently used. Thus Donnay finally balances the colors in the right position, which happens directly on the canvas. The combination of different painting techniques is characteristic of his pictorial experiments. Released from the guidelines of the past, Donnay's paintings also reveal what the artist has always been about: "controlled explosion of color and form. His pictorial design is subject to its very own demands: Donnay places particular emphasis on the balance of elements in his work, bringing about a purposeful harmony in the overall composition. For some months now, Donnay has also been painting and drawing in small format on paper. Some of these works are black-and-white experiments, others organic-looking pictorial inventions, ripe for transfer to the large canvas.