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Daniel Moline de Saint-Yon

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, a young Japanese girl of 18, one of those wonderful Japanese girls who are always huge questions for me! Amber painting on canvas mounted on panel. Varnished and ready to hang. Signature on the back. "I needed naked bodies to make a fresh start. It was very difficult in winter, because of the cold. I waited for spring to make the girls feel comfortable, so that they will no longer be afraid of getting naked. Otomè will have been more reluctant than his sister. She finally accepted but put her conditions: we will not see her breasts nor her belly nor her sex." letter to my cousin François, June 17, 1976 ambre dur toile il me fallait des corps nus pour prendre un nouveau départ c’était très difficile en hiver, à cause du froid j’ai attendu que le printemps revienne que les filles se sentent à l’aise qu’elles n’aient plus peur de se mettre à poil Otomè aura été plus réticente que sa soeur elle a finalement accepté mais a mis ses conditions : on ne verra ni ses seins ni son ventre ni son sexe lettre à mon cousin François, du 17 juin 1976

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in

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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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