Painting description

You can see a procession of slender figures in historical costumes, fanned out before a brick palace with pointed arches. The palette is subdued, with lots of rust, orange, and honey, cut through by navy and olive green, forming a dense carpet of color. The shapes are balloon-like, the necks improbably long, the contours soft, as if blurred by a play of light. These figures wear very long dresses and look like towers. You can feel the carnival, but also the calm after it—a bit of the “after,” and then “so what.” Brushstrokes leave texture, glazes mute the shine, and the ornamentation of the fabrics carries the eye in a wave. A mannerist style with a hint of surrealism; the artist gently skews the perspective, staging the scene like a theater. It awakens melancholy in me, but also a playful curiosity, because they are mysteriously elegant. Their silence has a charm, period.