Nicolas Vial is a well-known cartoonist and painter exhibited in many museums, he is a painter of the Navy since 2008; his work is marked by an imaginary world where a sharp surrealism is combined with a kind of contemporary romanticism and satire. He brings to life a dreamlike world inhabited by stranded ships, chained fish, urban cats, men in hats, Venetian villas, and more recently a mocking illustration calling out Vladmir Putin.   In 1982, he joined La Monde – a French newspaper, and became a permanent illustrator; but in 2014 he was dismissed for a drawing deemed too unfavourable to François … Continue reading Artworks That Question The Present-Day Reality Of War, Capitalism & Environment – Artist Nicolas Vial