Christopher Lavenair





Photographe d'art - Artiste peintre

Si la couleur est sa signature, l ternel f minin reste sa qu te. Ce grand romantique d cide en 2001 de commencer un travail sur la femme. Modelant, estompant, caressant sa guise ses mod les de beaut , son imaginaire amoureux s empare de ces cr atures sublimes qui le toisent du haut de leurs catwalk . Gouache, gesso, acrylique et crayons gras, parfois rehauss es d huile ou frott es la brosse, les images sont travaill es jusqu l effacement. Le regard est essentiel, c est lui qui me donne la musique, l nergie subtile et la beaut de la femme dit-il. Kate Moss, Isabella Rossellini, Cate Blanchett, ses muses iconiques pr tent leur silhouette son exaltation artistique dans un romantisme pictural assez peu explor aujourd hui. (lire la suite...)

If colour is his signature, the feminine essence is his quest. In 2001, this great romantic artist decided to start a project featuring the woman. He moulds, blurs and adds tenderness to his models without restriction; his imaginary love seizes itself from these sublime creatures that look down on him from the heights of their catwalks. Gouache, Gesso, acrylic and oil pastels, sometimes boosted by oil or scrubbed by a brush, the images are worked until eradication. The look is essential, it s the look that gives me the music, the subtle energy and the woman s beauty he says. Kate Moss, Isabella Rossellini and Cate Blanchett are some of his iconic muses that lend their silhouettes to his artistic jubilation in a pictorial romanticism which remains rather unexplored today. (read more...)





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