French Painting, Mixed Media on Paper by Michel Haas: The Lovers

Two shadows lean together. That is all, and it turns out to be plenty.

The Lovers is a mixed media painting on paper by Michel Haas, from France, ca. 1989. Lovers are among the oldest subjects in art, and reducing them to silhouette lets a painter keep the feeling while leaving out the faces. Two dark forms rise side by side, heads tilted toward one another, their bodies merging at the lower right. Black and deep brown grain spreads outward and breaks up against a mottled, pale ground. A fine vertical seam runs down the center. It measures 37 inches wide and 68 high.

Not a feature in sight, and you know exactly what is going on.