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cuir rouge et ajourés bleus - 赤い革と青い透かし彫り Painting

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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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Portrait of Otomè Efira, a 25-year-old Japanese woman who became my partner in 1980. “I am now working on two large portraits at the same time, the portraits of Otomè and Ponko. The first is painted in profile, with a red leather collar around the neck and a blue openwork dress that combines charm and nobility.” (Extract from my workshop journal of Friday May 13, 1983). The installation session took place at her home, in her living room in Kobè, in front of the windows overlooking the garden, to the west. Amber painting on canvas mounted on panel. Varnished and ready to hang. Signature on the back. journal du vendredi 13 mai 1983 je travaille maintenant sur deux grands portraits en même temps, les portraits d'Otomè et de Ponko la première est peinte de profil avec un collier de cuir rouge autour du cou et une robe en ajourés bleus qui allie charme et noblesse quant à Ponko, elle est vue de face avec un chapeau en mousse polyuréthane moulée qui lui donne un air grave et assuré tout cela été soigneusement choisi pour mettre en valeur la perfection de ses traits et faire briller davantage la profondeur de ses yeux

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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 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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