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Chile
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 43.3 W x 21.3 H x 0.8 D in
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Coquimbo is located a bit like Valparaiso, it goes up to the highest hills. I saw this city as a wall in front of me, I painted it like that, without it being possible to see the sky or the top of the hill. I applied the technique of Venetian painters of the Renaissance: first painted in sepia (a mixture of burnt umber, orange and natural Sienna), with all its details, then color glazes gradually applied to dry cloth for two months. Some customers have criticized me for having gone to color, because the canvas pleased them in sepia. I loved this technique, even though it takes twice as much work.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:43.3 W x 21.3 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Chile.
Customs:Shipments from Chile may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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I'm a French painter and engraver, born 1954, living en Chile for 12 years. The required level of skill to make good etchings allowed me to become a more demanding paintor. I like the technical challenges of painting and engraving. I have been teaching painting in Chile for 10 years. Figuration for etching, hyperrealism and expressionist abstraction for painting are what I prefer to do. Engraving: My work is done in at least two stages: a plate for the image support, and another for tattoos. This superposition allows me to create encounters between cultures that have never met (example: the mask of Tutankamon with Ashentis tattoos). My goal tends to renew the view that the viewer has on the various elements. Abstract painting: The Chilean culture made me know runes, which have lost their original meanings and acquired here a magical dimension. I abstractly report the magical meaning of these runes. Hyperrealism: In my landscape paintings (I fell in love with pampas and Chilean deserts) I try to erase the effects specific to photography rather than trying to approach a photographic rendering. I do not want people saying "it looks like a picture" but "it looks like reality". But as nature does not care much about pictorial rendering, the reality is rarely as it appears on the painting. Especially since I usually add a detail denoting the human presence.
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