Lucie Duban
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Sure . So about Promenade au pays du Mandala and Tout Là Haut , I wanted to create compositions which would recall walks in the Nature , if we can say it this way . And it ' s always pretty much my intention with my works . But for those two paintings I wanted to paint some elements which would seem taken out of the biologic world . And I would distort their proportions to make some bigger and other smaller , so to avoid any obviousness or reality in the image . Even if , while doing it , I don ' t think about it in those terms . I just do it and then I realize what I have just done . My aim is to make the viewer to take a plunge into the composition and to feel like he or she is looking at a landscape or an image which is embedded in Nature . But in a playful and dreamlike way . Because we ' re talking about Art and for me , Art should always lead us , little humans we are , to dream and escape from our materialistic reality . It ' s the idea to reenchant the reality . My major inspiration is Nature . The biologic one from which we are totally disconnected in the modern societies ( because of the materialistic shift taken since the industrial revolution ) and also the more cosmic Nature , which is where all Life comes from .
You draw a lot from natural environment that in your paintings never play the mere role of background : how would you define the relationship between natural surrouding and your work ?
Well Nature plays the lead role in my work as a matter of fact . And my work
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