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Les révélations
A first series that marks the beginning of an exploration of feelings
Some of the works that make up this series
No name
60 x 80 cm
2024
No name
110 x 75 cm
2019
golden hours
110 x 75 cm
2022
gratitude
70 x 80 cm
2022
In this first series, "Les Révélations," from the Abstract Expressionist movement, Anaïs LF completely covers the canvases with paint, a technique commonly called "All over." It is a transcription of feelings, often extreme.
Painting thus becomes, with this first series, a new reference point, a return to oneself. This first series of paintings marks the starting point towards a means of expressing (and not illustrating) the feelings and experiences that run through her, in their contrasts and depths. A means also of expressing this global, affective, hypersensitive, intuitive, dazzling thought that has often been rejected, but that she ends up accepting thanks to her art.
L'expressionnisme abstrait
For freedom of expression of feelings, of heightened sensitivity, like intimate and personal writing. Abstract expressionism is based on movement, encounters, and color contrasts. In complete rupture with figuration, abstract expressionism reveals an intensity that is as concrete as it is psychic and spiritual.
Creative process
Unable to paint on an easel, Anaïs LF places her canvases directly on the ground: this is the dripping technique. On the ground, she felt more comfortable, with a need for anchoring and reference points. Like most of the artists who have influenced this movement, she does not use brushes or a palette. She paints with her hands, a stick, a knife from time to time, but above all a very fluid painting. Her pictorial technique in this series refers more to action painting (or sometimes gestural abstraction). The action, the powerful gesture, the intensity of the brushstroke and the squirts of paint evoke the impulsive charge necessary to create the works. The work of the motif is characteristic of her works, which are intended to be profound, as a means of externalizing.
The importance of fluidity
It is common to say that fluid paints often require a certain level of mastery and technique to be successfully manipulated. For Anaïs LF, it is fluidity that called her. She will experience the reaction of colors between them, the meeting of colors, textures, their pigments and their nuances… Water thus occupies an important place in her creative process within this series of works. The fluidity of water mixes with that of paint, sometimes ink, to offer unparalleled creative freedom, since it allows to play with the effects of transparency, superposition, unique contrasts. Some also observe effects of flow and marbling, thus giving an organic and dynamic character to the works.
