2 Chevaux et Tintin

Medium: oil in canvas Size: 16" x 20" x 1.5" Miguel Podolsky had a simple, fun idea with this one: take two icons of French culture and put them on the same street. There's Tintin, the skinny red-headed hero from the French comic strip that ran through the '40s, '50s, and '60s, walking his little white dog Milou past a parked Citroën 2CV, that unmistakable rounded little car everyone in France seems to recognize on sight. The blue of the 2CV pops against the warm yellow light spilling out of the shop windows behind it. Podolsky works in loose, confident brushstrokes, letting the cool blues and grays of the street play off the oranges and warm tones of the storefronts, so the whole scene feels lit from within even as the evening comes on. It's a small, affectionate joke of a painting, really, one beloved character next to another, both thoroughly and happily French.