This animal side
The recent paintings of Blaise Schwartz may disconcert the average city dweller, cut for too long from any real contact with nature, since he depicts a dog sleeping in the grass or waiting for its master, perhaps waiting for an order. This dog is alone, but only in appearance, for the painting implies that the viewer, most likely a human, is confronted with a form of dog-being, this «animal side» recently analyzed by Jean-Christophe Bailly.
This is not the only theme of this painting that explores the broader relationship of man to the world through, inter alia, the link between nature and culture. […]
To realize his paintings, Blaise Schwartz starts as much from a thing seen as from a sensation, which unfolds on all planes, from the physical to the psychic. After loosely determining it, he tries to shape it through painting. Therefore, there are likely no univocal explanation for what he shows, but rather an invitation to project oneself into this universe that he creates, to explore it and to let growing the questions that come to light, starting with this one: what has one gained, or lost, in cutting oneself off from nature and the animal world?
2013