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Belgium
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in
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Portrait of Otomè Efira, an 18-year-old Japanese girl. My life as a portrait painter is a permanent struggle for life in the invention of a lively relationship with myself, with others and with the world, a relationship that makes a story and influences the course of things. It is up to me to evaluate what I do with Otomè, to validate my work and to complete it with her. It is also up to me to undo my own destiny to redo it every morning, to enrich it with the human depth that this Japanese woman brings me. “Resume work with Otomè, Awa's exquisite little sister now lying on her back with bare breasts shyly pointing to the sky! Paint all the human sweetness of these two doves of which I am forever the thirdcelet. "Extract from the workshop journal of Friday, October 1, 1976). Amber painting on canvas mounted on panel. Varnished and ready to hang. Signature on the back. Portrait d’Otomè Efira, une jeune japonaise de 18 ans. Ma vie de peintre portraitiste est un combat permanent pour la vie dans l’invention d’un rapport vif à moi-même, aux autres et au monde, un rapport qui fait une histoire et influe sur le cours des choses. A moi d’évaluer ce que je fais avec Otomè, de valider mon travail et de l’achever avec elle. A moi aussi de défaire mon propre destin pour le refaire tous les matins, l’enrichir de la profondeur humaine que m’apporte cette Japonaise. “Reprendre le travail avec Otomè, l’exquise petite sœur d’Awa couchée maintenant sur le dos les seins nus pointant timidement vers le ciel ! Peindre toute la douceur humaine de ces deux colombes dont je suis à jamais le tiercelet.“ Extrait du journal de l’atelier du vendredi 1er octobre 1976). Peinture à l’ambre sur toile marouflée sur panneau. Vernie et prête à accrocher. Signature au dos.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Born in 1948 in Belgium, Daniel Moline de Saint-Yon is a Belgian writer and portraitist living and working in the countryside near Spa. He graduated as an philosopher from FUNDP in Namur and lived as an artist 16 years in Japan (until 1990). His work has been regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Belgium and Japan. Staying receptive to the history and the cultural interaction between Europe and Japan is one of his main concern. Moline’s creative process starts with sketches and drawing from life on the canvas. He paints mostly portraits (mainly women), spending a great deal of time with each subject, a rapport with his model being necessary to work. He tried several mediums but somehow always returns to amber as he finds it the ideal and enigmatic partner adapted to his needs of expression. This light oily substance of rare purity and beautiful transparency takes some days to dry out, but brightens tonnes and offers remarkable elasticity. Several thin layers of extra-fine paint will sustain for ever the ardour an bloom of color fields with strong visual impact. A patient process for a unique result ! Moline’s artistic career ( by Emmanuelle Dubuisson, in french) : « Peintre de figures, de portraits et de grandes compositions dans un style fortement graphique. Formation à Namur en Belgique avec Luc Perot, puis au Japon où il étudie la décoration et devient l'élève du Maître Ryû Oda. Il pratique ensuite la calligraphie avec le moine zen Tainin Yukimura dans un temple à Shobara. Lauréat en 1984 du concours du Kansaï à Kyoto, il participe à plusieurs expositions à Tokyo, Kyoto et Kobe, où il séjournera seize ans (1973-1990). Conjuguant les approches orientales et occidentales, sa démarche picturale sʼinscrit alors en de larges compositions volcaniques où trônent dʼépais personnages au graphisme vigoureux et dont lʼénergie vitale fait ressortir une violence expressive. Lʼœuvre porte aussi les traces dʼune calligraphie pratiquée chez les moines bouddhistes, qui se mêlent aux formes nues dans un foisonnement de taches de couleur, de courbes douces et dʼentrelacements surprenants. On y retrouve aussi des traits communs avec lʼœuvre du peintre japonais Shôhaku. Les sujets, liés au corps, souvent nus, évoquent accouchements, accouplements ou corps doubles, et allient, dans un mélange de tout et de néant, tendresse et cruauté. Comme si la violence de ces figures s'accompagnait toujours dʼune bienveillance retenue envers la vie.
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