The Tea Time Sonata,
2025
Natalya Mougenot
Painting : acrylic
100 x 70 x 0.1 cm 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
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100 x 70 x 0.1 cm 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: France
This French contemporary still life, “The Tea Time Sonata," by artist Natalya Mougenot, is a vibrant colorful painting in large format that captures the poetry of everyday life through the lens of modern expressionism. In this joyful and emotionally charged composition, flowers, fruits, and tea objects become living symbols of warmth, beauty, and connection.
Born in Kazakhstan and living in France since 2003, Natalya often weaves both cultures into her art. In her native country, tea time is a cherished ritual — a special moment when family and friends gather to talk, share stories, and simply be together. Here, she bridges her heritage with her French life, including a croissant and two macarons — gentle tributes to the country that inspires her.
Working in her distinctive style often described as dopamine art, Mougenot channels joy and emotional honesty through her palette. Her brushstrokes are instinctive and musical, echoing the spontaneity of Matisse and the structural sensitivity of Cézanne. The heritage of modern French painting is tangible here — from Fauvism's fearless color to Expressionism's emotional depth — yet fully reinterpreted through her own authenticity and inner coherence.
The artist's choice to work on heavyweight, acid-free professional paper reflects her desire for immediacy and freedom:
“Paper gives me the liberty to paint with speed and emotion," Natalya explains. “It absorbs my gestures, allowing color and energy to remain alive, unfiltered."
Each composition is then varnished with a special gloss finish, heightening the luminosity of pigments and preserving the tactile vibrancy of the paint surface.
In The Tea Time Sonata, the dialogue between warm ochres, luminous blues, and exuberant reds creates a visual melody — a sonata in color celebrating the poetry of daily life.
“Authenticity is not a style — it's a presence," says the artist. “A painting can't lie — it always reveals the truth of its creator."
Through this work, Mougenot invites the viewer to pause, breathe, and rediscover joy in the ordinary — transforming an afternoon tea into a radiant meditation on presence and gratitude.
This expressive and harmonious artwork would enhance modern, eclectic, or contemporary interiors, adding warmth, vibrancy, and a touch of poetic sophistication to any living or dining space.
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Acrylic on heavyweight professional acid-free paper, varnished with gloss finish
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Certificate of the Authenticity is included
Note: Sold unframed - Although this is a large-format work on paper, it comes unframed, and its standard dimensions make it easy to find a suitable frame to match any interior style.
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Natalya is a contemporary french artist living in Lyon.
She was born and grew up in Kazakhstan, the country known for its spacious steppes.
She arrived in France 2003. Since that moment she loves her adoptive country.
She started painting in 2017 and used it as a therapeutic and emotional release during times of crisis. She incorporates this therapeutic approach in her artistic creative process till now.
In her artistic practice she refers to the terms of metamodernism, which proposes to look at the world from the position of the inner adult.
As an artist and as a woman she translates the experience of her personal search for balance based on harmony between mind, soul and body. This balance, in her opinion, is the pillar for the inner adult.
Important components of her work are authenticity, soulfulness, sincerity, emotionality and honesty. She immerses the objects and the characters in the world where there is no falsity, rudeness, loneliness and indifference.
She works rapidly and is constantly sensitive to the details.
Her artistic process is a fine balance between a pre-meditation and spontantainty which helps her to create her expressive atmospheric artworks with a modern touch of impressionism by cultivating a naive art approach.
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