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Au pays des mille et une nuits / The land of 1001 nights (2024) Painting by Émilie Pauly
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Painting,
Acrylic
on Cardboard
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Dimensions
27.6x35.4 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 23.6in, Width 31.5in - Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is framed
- Categories Paintings under $5,000 Naive Art Fantasy
Ce tableau représente un paysage nocturne empli d'étoiles et de créatures merveilleuses. Le clair de lune baigne la forêt dénudée de sa lumière argentée. Cette forêt mystérieuse, inquiétante et ténébreuse, luxuriante et brumeuse, est traversée par une rivière sinueuse sur laquelle se reflète humblement la lune. Au bord de l'eau, sur la rive gauche, une jeune flûtiste joue une mélodie envoûtante. Est-ce cette mélodie qui a attiré le prince-oiseau jusqu'à elle ? Sa présence inattendue semble surprendre la flûtiste, peu disposée à se laisser séduire. Habituée à sa vie champêtre, n'ayant pour seul domicile qu'une hutte de bois modeste, elle regarde, incrédule, cet émir surgi de nulle part et les deux somptueux palais, aux allures spectrales, apparus derrière lui comme par magie. Se laissera-t-elle charmer par le prince aux alouettes ? Cèdera-t-elle aux attraits de la vie luxueuse qu'il semble lui promettre ? Qui sait ? Ce prince ne manque pas d'arguments... Il porte à la ceinture une flûte à bec, qui, à n'en pas douter, s'accorderait harmonieusement avec la flûte traversière de notre demoiselle des champs...
Dans le ciel étoilé, deux oiseaux inséparables et un sultan sur son tapis d'orient se dirigent vers le pharaon volant situé un peu plus haut. Le pharaon - empereur de ce tableau - tente de reprendre les effets personnels que lui a dérobés une libellule malicieuse et entêtée. Sera-t-elle maîtrisée ? À rire de ses espiègleries, elle ne remarque pas que le sultan au tapis volant, muni de son sceptre en plumes de paon, se rapproche d'elle dangereusement. Couronné d'un turban exhalant des parfums somnifères, le sultan aura pourtant tôt fait de la mettre à terre.
Acrylic gouache on cardboard.
This painting depicts a nocturnal landscape filled with stars and marvellous creatures. Moonlight bathes the bare forest in its silvery light. This mysterious forest, disquieting and dark, luxuriant and misty, is crossed by a winding river on which the moon is humbly reflected. At the water's edge, on the left bank, a young flautist plays a haunting melody. Is it this melody that has drawn the prince bird to her? His unexpected presence seems to surprise the flautist, who is reluctant to be seduced. Accustomed to her rural life, with only a modest wooden hut to call home, she stares in disbelief at this emir who has appeared from nowhere, and at the two sumptuous, ghostly-looking palaces that appear behind him as if by magic. Will she allow herself to be charmed by the prince? Will she give in to the allure of the luxurious life he seems to be promising her? Who knows? This prince is not short of arguments... He wears a flute on his belt, which would fit in perfectly with that of our damsel of the field...
In the starry sky, two inseparable birds and a sultan on his oriental carpet are heading towards the flying pharaoh a little higher up. The pharaoh - emperor of this painting - is trying to take back the personal belongings stolen from him by a mischievous and stubborn dragonfly. Will it be subdued? Laughing at its mischief, it fails to notice that the flying carpet sultan, with his peacock-feather sceptre, is getting dangerously close to it. Crowned with a turban that exudes sleep-inducing perfumes, the sultan will soon put it down.
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A self-taught artist, I started painting around ten years ago, shortly after my son was born.
What led me to painting? Essentially the need to escape a boring working life, to reconnect with my childhood dreams at a time when I'd lost my way, and the desire to bring fantasy to everyone (young and old). I was fascinated by the magnificent illustrations I'd discovered in the children's books I'd read to my son, and I'd wanted to create my own images, my own paintings, that would tell the story of my inner world, my dreams, my fantasies, my ideals. I wanted to paint what moved me so that I'd never forget it, so that I'd have a memory of it that I could pass on and communicate.
When I create characters in pencil, I never know in advance what I'm going to draw. I let my hand go and then I see what appears. I like not knowing where my gesture is going to take me. I like to be surprised by what emerges from the first strokes of my pencil. I have the pleasant impression of accessing something of myself that had been lost (in my subconscious or in my distant memories, who knows?).
When I've collected a large enough number of pencil drawings, I look for the ones that could be put together in the same scene, the characters who could have adventures together in the same painting. I spend a lot of time creating these compositions. Once I've worked out which characters have something to say to each other and what setting they could be in, I start painting. I always paint my background first (a natural landscape) and then insert my characters. Everything is done in gouache.
Painting and drawing seemed to me to be more reliable means of expression than texts and speeches. As a linguist by training, I spent a long time working on words and the construction of meaning when I was preparing my doctoral thesis. The polysemy in languages can be so dizzying! Although I'm always sensitive to the poetry of literary works and the beauty of well-crafted arguments, I'm now less moved by them than by the poetry or beauty of images. Words, sometimes misleading or a source of misunderstanding, never colourful enough or on the contrary too saturated, can't do everything. When we no longer know what to say or how to say it, when words fail us, when silence imposes itself, painting, sculpture, music or dance can take over, for the pleasure of all.
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Nationality:
FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1977
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- Groups: Contemporary French Artists
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