S’extraire du tumulte du monde, ralentir, retrouver un lien sensible avec la nature : en tant qu’artiste et créatrice, la retraite créative est une nécessité.Read more
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Blog de l'artiste Veronique Egloff
Experiments in artistic creativity
Plant are silent and offer themself to the world. Our superficial daily glances, let us show it motionless and inertOf Read more
Life in plants puzzles me as much as it inspires me! We see only in plants, a frame in which Read more
Can art inspire change? This is a recurrent question for me. Lately, I was invited by the media library of Read more
Enjoy and get free to create, challenge yourself. Everyone knows that creatives are usually generous people. We do not hesitate Read more
Sometimes in small villages, initiatives of love of art and culture raise up. What a delight! Originally, there is a Read more
As soon as you get some skills with a paint-brush, people ask you a portrait. But this is an extremely Read more
why this blog
"Always imagine your work as an opening to the world." Léonard de Vinci
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For who?
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why ?
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who ?
How can we talk about somebody who is fond of artistic creation?
Here is an attempt of portraits from people I have met:Cheerful,
Benevolent,
Enlightened,
Unselfish,
Solidary,
Compassionate…beings.In short, this blog tries to track down all kinds of artistic surprises with greediness.
It collects them patiently ...and attempts to make them sparkleThose creative tastings are realized solo but more often with others and always face to face. Young people and adults regularly follow me in those exciting journeys.
At first, we enjoy Art. But then, why not experiment it ourself?
But alone, it is not always easy!
Where to start?
How to do it?
How to be more creative?
Daring to take this path is easier alongside an already seasoned traveler in the matter.
Follow him/her in all kinds of creative writings and soon you will be aware of the relevance of artistic creation in general, but especially of your own creations.
It is an unstoppable way to feel alive.There are so many alternatives, so no hesitation, get inspired and create.
few notes about the author
1962
I was born in Paris
First Rolling Stones’ live show in London, appearance ////// mini-skirt !!! ??? !!!!
it was a fair period ... Véronique Egloff chooses to show the tip of her nose.
1967-1982: intensive education to get a better assessment of her time
1983-1985: very intensive education to get a better assessment of the globalization of the world economy1986-1990: jobs for a living
1990-2000: major crisis, loses her foothold, has two babies and naively begins many other creations at once
2000 ADMITTED TO THE UNLIKELY HOUSE OF ARTISTS,
start with colored pencils to land ...for a while... digital
>>> since has been experimenting all artistic fields that comes to her mind with an unstoppable patience
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The free portrait
As soon as you get some skills with a paint-brush, people ask you a portrait. But this is an extremely challenging exercise which requires a daily practice. I am not skilled in this work. And I would even say that I never do this exercise spontaneously. It is why I have opted for what I call the free portrait. However, when someone asks me a portrait, I meet this challenge because I know that through this exercise I learn more … on myself!
The art of portraiture is a practice which got soon mandatory in the history of humanity.
Since ancient times, men have got the habit to mold the face of the deceased to remember. The aim was to make an accurate replica so as to fill their absence.
Later on, in some religions, the portrait of a holy being was used to worship one’s wisdom.
Then came portraits of people in high places, burning incense to the “noble blood” of some in the eyes of others, even propelling them higher by presumptuous stagings.
Still later, some anonymous faces became more famous than kings as “girl with a pearl earring” by Vermeer.
And over time, artists have broken away from all similarities stuck on reality.
After all, why just drawing a head, as André Breton said with malice : “But everyone knows what is a head.”
Artists are more concerned by the representation of human nature and history rather than by a portrait- reality..
As the matters vary, creativity is released and thus renderings and desired outcomes as well.
I am upset by some portraits because, by freezing a moment, they have caught the character in one’s temporal entirety. I am thinking of the portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire by his friend, the painter Giorgio de Chirico (whose paint is described as metaphysical). In 1916 he chose to depict him as shadows plays with a circle drawn on the left temple. Apollinaire was wounded two years later during the First World War by a piece of shrapnel in the centre of the same circle.
Andy Warhol made a disturbing portrait of Jackie Kennedy, cold and violently contrasting, in blue and black, on the day of the attack.
He represented the key moment, when smiling, she is still the pop icon and when the beginning of a tragedy is already announced by the fugitive representation of her husband in the background.
The art of portraiture is obviously an insight in the privacy of the model, conscious or not, whether we like it or not. Representing a person is always a disturbing moment. As well, presenting one’s work to the model is a tricky moment, as the acceptance of the other is not guaranteed!
Do not draw what you are thinking this person is. Rather dive in one’s mystery with candor as simply as possible. With the eyes of a child dazzled by the discovery of something never met before.
Who is there ?
the free portrait
With a free portrait we do not seek to achieve an accurate photo-copy. So take the opportunity to make an interpretation of the person at a given time. I often start with a sketch from life as appetizer to feel this character. Avoid being classic as the first example above, because the rise is tough and seriously slippery.
Thanks to a sunbeam, with paint-brushes for buildings like that at one go, with sand, as a complex fabric, minimalist with wire… Here are some ideas. And invent some and let me know all your finds!
Anyway, pay a great benevolent attention to your subject, and feel convinced that inspiration should arise. This strong consideration for this character will drive you to express in a certain way the beauty of one’s human nature. Be original, go on! And if you are not pleased with the outcome do not give it! But if a sensible impression gets free, give it as a gift.
It is always a huge surprise to be seen through the eyes of another.
