Le bonheur juste pour cible

🖼️ Artistic Description

This piece, styled as poetic urban wall art, blends street graffiti, handwritten messages, symbolic imagery, and bold typography to deliver a powerful emotional and philosophical statement.

🔍 Visual Composition:

• Central Message (in bold black text):
  ➤ “LE BONHEUR JUSTE POUR CIBLE” ("Happiness Just as a Target") is placed in the center of a brightly painted target — composed of red, white, blue, and yellow. It turns the idea of happiness into something one must aim at, chase, or long for — perhaps always out of reach.

• Surrounding Graffiti (scribbled in red, black, and colored ink):
  ➤ Frantic, layered handwritten phrases burst across the canvas like scattered thoughts or diary entries:

  • “Je suis en trance” (I’m in a trance)

  • “Et l’amour me veut?” (Does love want me?)

  • “La joie dans le viseur” (Joy in the scope)

  • “J’ai le bonheur sur ordonnance” (I have happiness by prescription)

  • “Je suis sous même écrou à chance” (I’m under the same lock of luck)
    ➤ These phrases reflect a fractured inner dialogue — full of longing, confusion, irony, and vulnerability.

• Figures and Symbols:

  • On the left: a silhouette of a young girl, reminiscent of Banksy’s style, reaching toward the bullseye — a visual metaphor for childhood innocence striving for happiness.

  • On the right: a faceless man in a hat, painted in cool tones with a spiral target drawn over his head, suggesting obsession, mental chaos, or inner fragmentation.

🎨 Artistic Influences

• Banksy & Political Street Art:

  • The stencil girl and urban wall medium clearly echo Banksy, especially his use of innocent figures as social critique — here pointing to the loss of simple joys.

• Poetic Graffiti & Art Brut:

  • The raw, scribbled handwriting suggests Art Brut and the expressive chaos of Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as the conceptual language play of Ben Vautier.

• Psychological Pop Art:

  • The target motif recalls Jasper Johns, but is recontextualized here as a symbol of emotional pressure and existential aiming — turning a formal shape into a metaphor for psychological tension.

• French Urban Philosophy:

  • The layering of phrases in French touches on themes common in French contemporary poetry and street thought: identity, alienation, love, and the commodification of happiness.