 Elise
Rieuf - The artist's techniques |
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The wide range of techniques used by Elise Rieuf is astonishing. Be it oil painting, pastel, pencil, ball-point pen, charcoal pencil, red chalk, watercolor, wash, ink, engraving, she goes from one technique to another without seeming difficulty. Or perhaps the challenge was to master each of them, in order to probe the possibilities it offered. Self-portrait |
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Scandinavia, the gull |
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With Elise Rieuf the idea is always of utmost importance : the technique only serves the composition. Sometimes Elise Rieuf realizes a portrait first in oil painting, then in pastel, thus showing an aspect of her personal research. Chinese with a red shirt |
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It is quite surprising to see how this artist’s works of art keep a unity, while displaying such a large variety of techniques, shapes and subjects. No systematization, but an infinite richness. It is, moreover, a feature common to most of the women artists who gathered around M.J. CarpentierMarion Boyer - Elise Rieuf museum curator
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