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Rustic Emperor, 2026
Natalya Mougenot

Name: Rustic Emperor
Brand: Natalya Mougenot
SKU: 2438519
Price: 1300 EUR
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Painting : acrylic

80 x 80 x 1.5 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch

€1,300

Secure delivery : France + €52

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Unique artwork

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

Authenticity

Invoice from the gallery

Medium

Painting: acrylic

Dimensions cm • inch

80 x 80 x 1.5 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch Height x Width x Depth

Support

Painting on canvas on stretcher

Framing

Not framed

Rooster

Expressionism

Green

Red

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

"Rustic Emperor" by French contemporary artist Natalya Mougenot is a contemporary animal painting created with acrylic paint and acrylic pens on stretched cotton canvas (80 × 80 × 1.5 cm), ready to hang. Part of her ongoing animal series, the work explores instinct, vitality, and emotional truth through expressive gesture, intuitive composition, and a fully embodied painting process.

In "Rustic Emperor", the rooster is not treated as a realistic depiction but as a symbolic, almost archetypal presence — a figure of alertness, renewal, and raw life force.

The title "Rustic Emperor" reinforces this duality: something rooted and earthly, yet sovereign in its energy.

Mougenot's practice is fundamentally spontaneous and intuitive. She does not work from strict rules or academic realism, but from gesture, emotion, and immediate response to color and movement. Her surfaces are built through visible brushstrokes, layered textures, and free-flowing acrylic pen marks that preserve the trace of the creative act.

Her approach is deeply physical. She paints standing, never seated, allowing the entire body to participate in the creation of the work. The painting is not constructed in a controlled, linear way, but emerges through rhythm, instinct, and continuous motion.

As the artist explains:

“I don't want to control everything — I want the painting to breathe."

“I paint standing, never sitting. My whole body is involved in the gesture."

“There is no separation between thought, movement, and emotion when I work."

“I believe authenticity comes from allowing imperfection to remain visible."

“When I paint animals, I try to let their energy guide my hand."

In "Rustic Emperor", this philosophy becomes tangible. The work carries the imprint of a state of liberated focus — a balance between joy, spontaneity, and an almost uncontrolled concentration where gesture becomes immediate and irreversible. Each mark feels like a direct transmission of energy from body to canvas.

Rather than seeking perfection, Mougenot embraces expressive imperfection and emotional honesty.

For collectors and curators, the work speaks to a contemporary language of painting that prioritizes authenticity over polish, process over finish, and emotional presence over formal control. It resonates strongly with viewers drawn to expressive figurative abstraction, contemporary animal symbolism, and gestural painting practices where the artist's physical involvement remains visible.

"Rustic Emperor" fits naturally within modern, contemporary, eclectic, and design-led interiors, where it functions as a strong focal point and a source of dynamic energy. It is suited to living spaces, creative studios, offices, boutique hospitality environments, and curated collector interiors seeking works with presence and emotional depth.

Details:

Medium: Acrylic paint and acrylic pens on stretched cotton canvas

Dimensions: 80 × 80 × 1.5 cm (31.5 × 31.5 × 0.6 inches)

Ready to hang

Original contemporary artwork

Part of the artist's ongoing animal series

Signed on the front and on the back

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Natalya Mougenot

France • 1981

Presentation

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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