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In the boldly colorful original artwork of the French artist Prince Ulrik Poniatowski, we find an interesting mix of a street art style and intricate pointillism. He fills his canvas with vibrant, hot colors using Posca –paint pens in water-based pigment ink –a medium often used in street art and Tags. These pens provide Poniatowski with bright opaque paint color along with the excellent precision found in an ordinary marker. Poniatowski works with this distinct medium while he explores a few different styles and themes.   

The Power of the Elements best represents his canvases in pointillism.  The four elements are layered in loose horizontal stripes across the canvas with a fiery sky and blue flame-like waves encompassing black, gray and white wind and earth patterns.  It is as if the fire and water contain the earth and wind, and yet each of the four is powerful in and of itself, as Poniatowski skillfully has composed a pattern and style for each one.  The red and orange fire tones used in the top layer take sweeping, striped forms, blending into the black, white and gray cut-out patterned wind below, which rests upon the zigzag figures of the earth, and finally bright blue waves take the bottom layer of the canvas.  The four elements not only contrast each other but also seem to fit together like puzzle pieces, both in their distinct patterns and in their all being composed of pointillist dots.  A strong sense of movement runs throughout the canvas.


                                 

    Ulrik Poniatowski, The Great Apple