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Tragic characters : The woman politician. Painting

Romain Héjé

France

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 38.2 W x 51.2 H x 1.2 D in

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These days as an artist I fell I have to meet in some ways easy to read "real images", representational images, newspaper photographs for instance and to try to paint them as if in themselves they had enough qualities to become a model. A little like exorcism... The painted reproduction of images printed on pulp paper with its poorness was to me the obvious choice to meet this aim. The woman in this image is an ex-minister in a french government. Since then she ran for presidency but did not win. The newspaper 'photography shows her remote, lost in her thoughts as if she had lost her compass in politic: a tragic character. The painting has a soft satin varnish.

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38.2 W x 51.2 H x 1.2 D in

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"Dyslexie, dysorthographie, dyscalculie..." was what i used to hear when i was a child, which drove me to a "Libre école Rudolf Steiner" where i had a very good time learning and dealing with drawing, painting, wood working, knitting...in a very genuine way. It was never called :"ART", but who cares ? The topic back then had more to do with the Cosmos, vitality, energetic fields, rythm, grows, states of minds, of evolution, self-control, harmony and balance, elements that i kept in mind as i became an artist. Later, i got a BA and a MA of art from the royal College of Arts and design London (1989) but getting "on the ball" is another story. My first commitment was with sculpture in free open spaces. I moved then to abstract painting bringing this habit of "making things" in the process of painting. Recently i got acquainted to figurative painting for its political aspect, the need to respond in a more concrete way to our troubled times.

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