artist/ Dewailly
FRANCE
As an admirer of Vermeer, the play of chiaroscuro is essential in the work of Anne Dewailly.
Her 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.
