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Les révélations
2019 - 2024
Inspirations
Related music
Fortunate Son, (Creedence Clearwater Revival), I'm a Beliver (The Monkees), Glitter & Gold ( Rebecca Ferguson), Open Book (José González), You Gotta Be (Des'ree),
It's All Over Now Baby blue (feat Van Morrison), Tonight Will Be FIne (Leonard Cohen), To Love Somebody (Nina Simone), Need Your Love (Curtis Harding), Holocene (Bon Iver), death bed.
Artistes
Alchemy, de Pollock
Franz Kline
Lee Krasner
Associated emotions
Estime de soi, amour, conscience, vulnérabilité, optimisme, repli sur soi, énergie, tourment, consternation.
A first series that marks the start of the exploration of feelings
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.
Mainstream: Abstract Expressionism for the freedom of expression of feelings, of heightened sensitivity, like intimate and personal writing.
Abstract Expressionism is based on movement, encounters, and color contrasts. In a complete break with figuration, Abstract Expressionism reveals an intensity that is both concrete and psychic and spiritual.
Creative process
Instead of painting on an easel, Anaïs LF places her canvases directly on the floor: this is the dripping technique. On the floor, 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 the creation of the works. The work of the motif is characteristic of her works, which are intended to be profound, as a means of externalizing.
Anaïs LF, Granville, October 2022
Each of the works from this series is an experiment whose unfolding and outcome are unpredictable. It often begins with an initial layer that covers the canvas. Then, this proposition, capable of multiple potential developments, leads to a dialogue, an encounter. The successive choices gradually give birth to the poetry of the painting. These choices depend on and respond to a certain way of being in this world.
"I learn what I am looking for by painting" (Soulages)
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.
Some works making 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