Thursday, February 4, 2010

Art of Diane Tremblay

http://www.dianeart.com/surrealism_paintings.html

I'm beginning to think that perhaps I should have elected to do surrealism for my concentration, but alas, that takes too much planning for me to work quickly. There's that, and I'm always short on ideas. Meaning that self portraits were probably a good idea.
Anyway, so above I have the link to the surrealist artist Diane Tremblay up above. Half the website is in French, so I'm assuming she lives in France, or caters to the French. I'm not sure.
Anyway, her paintings are typically done in acrylics, and she paints a lot of women. While her paintings are very colorful, the hues are muted and gentle, giving her paintings a slightly eerie feel. Typical themes I've noted are life, death, birth, various aspects of feminism, nature, and religion. There are probably others but I've yet to figure them out/notice them.
The paintings I found most notable were: Peace at the Intensive Care, Balancing on the Edge, Superman, Evolution, Jungle Urbaine, The Sea (love the bird people), and Pleine Lune.
I found the use of birds as angels (I think) particularly interesting in Peace at the Intensive Care, and also quite liked their appearance in The Sea as well. What the represent I'm unsure of, but they have an intriguing prescence in her art. Loved the nature theme and how she used it to portray the woman's body in Pleine Lune, the colors in Balancing on the Edge, and the robot in Superman.
Anyway, it was interesting for me to look at. I'd recommend browsing through the site.

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