Harold Ancart: Soft Places Painting the whimsical character inspired by

the whimsical character inspired by anime and manga that became Murakami’s first signature creation

his paintings and drawings explore the natural landscape and the built environment

“cerveau bien ordonné” (well-ordered brain)

and drawings produced during the last decade of Paik’s life

Harold Ancart: Soft Places Painting the whimsical character inspired byIn his atmospheric images and objects, Harold Ancart manipulates color and texture, allowing the operation of chance to inflect a distinctive style of painterly application and blur the boundary between observation and imagination. Combining figurative and abstract passages, his paintings and drawings explore the natural landscape and the built environment, transcending simple representation to reveal moments of unexpected poetry in otherwise familiar