French artist
DEWAILLY Anne
Born in Roubaix in 1964, Anne Dewailly is a French painter, specialist in portraits and genre scenes.
No less proud to represent her now, her talent has already seduced people beyond our borders, whether in Europe, the United States or the Middle East.
Yet without academic training, his pictorial technique manages to make us feel powerful emotions. Brush, cloth, knife, fingers, the variety of means used is of equal importance. His painting, in oil, is the sincere expression of a passion for the Dutch masters of the Golden Age, the Gulden/Gouden Eeuw.
She seeks to mix the realism of tronie – its original meaning is understood – and the idealism of certain people such as Vermeer. Women, men or children, when her models are not close friends, she meets them unexpectedly, it is her real gallery.
Modern chiaroscuro
A sensual light
As an admirer of Vemeer, the play of chiaroscuro is essential in the work of Anne Dewailly.
His mimetic work, favored by oil, always tries to find the balance between the sources of light.
The light speaks and the silence of the subject is all the less heavy. Varying in intensity, light and contours are always diffused, and the soul seems to fly away with the persistence of the spectator's gaze. In fact, the subject emits it as much as he receives it, bathed in a halo, playing the role of psychopomp Charon.
The business of rendering on the skins detaches them from this world. For Anne, faces and bodies must be bathed in a soft and tranquil light, which exalts exalts their model, much more than the pose or the look.
Choices are made on the canvas, as in life, between the real and the uspeakable.
Anne Dewailly
