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The oak and the reed Painting

Valérie Auriel

France

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 23.6 W x 28.7 H x 0.8 D in

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Mixed media, with oil painting and colored paper collages. This artwork is inspired by the Jean de la Fontaine fables. Valerie Auriel interprets engravings of the famous french artiste, Gustave Doré, with fantaisy...

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Oil on Canvas

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23.6 W x 28.7 H x 0.8 D in

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My painting follows in the footsteps of oneiric and poetic figuration. The world I paint is that of dreams, of the subconscious and of archetypes. My pictorial approach revolves around creating pictures that can be read in many ways, and provoking uncertainty. I may create figurative paintings, but they are certainly not illustrative. I aim to shape an atmosphere that can be interpreted in different ways. On canvas or on paper, I explore the ambiguities inherent to representation. I intertwine different techniques to reveal the complexity of the visible world and evoke the invisible. I use acrylic, oil, charcoal, pastel, collage… I mix the script, leaving some areas only alluded to by light touches, unexpected spots of colour, superimposed layers of glazes, or on the contrary, drawing with deliberate precision a hand, a face, a small detail… A painting for me must not be obvious or straightforward. It should instead incite discovery. Just like a dream also can…

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