Painting titled "Avril à l'intérieur" by Mary Wees, Original Artwork, Pastel

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Avril à l'intérieur (2020) Painting by Mary Wees

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Pastel on Paper, 17.7x11.8 in

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Pastel / Chalk / Conté / Watercolor on Paper

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Dimensions Height 17.7in, Width 11.8in
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Categories Paintings under $500 Conceptual Art

Oeuvre originale. Pastel sur aquarelle. Nature morte de fleurs printanières. Oeuvre de taille moyenne (45 cm x 30 cm). Blues et rouges riches. Les fleurs semblent être à la fois dans et hors du vase. Un reflet du temps passé à l'intérieur pendant la quarantaine. L'intention était de créer une image qui reflète la beauté de la nature que nous essayons de contrôler et de garder autour de nous en période d'isolement ou de confinement.

Original artwork. Pastel over watercolor. Still life of spring flowers. Medium sized artwork (45cm x 30cm). Rich blues and red. The flowers appear to be both in and out of the vase. A reflection of time spent inside during the quarantine. The intent was to create an image that reflects the beauty in nature that we try to control and keep around us in times of isolation or confinement.

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Painting Pastel

Pastel is an instrument widely used in plastic arts. Taking the form of a colored plastic stick, it is composed of pigments, a filler (chalk or plaster) and a binder (gum arabic, oil, wax). We mainly distinguish fatty pastels (oil or wax), dry pastels, whether soft or hard. Invented in Europe at the end of the 15th century, this tool was very quickly used by great portrait painters of French royalty, such as Charles Le Brun, Rosalba Carriera, Jean Siméon Chardin or Maurice Quentin de La Tour, who will be considered the "Prince of pastellists", thanks to a method of fixation of which only he knew the secret.

Pastel

Drawing made with a colored stick. It consists of pigments, a charge and a binder. A distinction is made between dry pastels (soft or hard) and fatty pastels (oil or wax).

Chalk

Drawing made with chalk, a white marine rock that is traditionally white in colour and can sometimes be coloured.

Conté

Colored drawing made with colored pencil, an instrument made of a small wooden stick used as a sheath for a colored mine of the same length.

Watercolor

Watercolor is a painting in which gum arabic binds transparent pigments revealing the support of the painting. The gouache, of identical composition, is opaque. A watercolor is a water-based painting on paper. We rarely speak of a painting for a work painted in watercolor. Watercolor paintings are considered to be a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotions and luminous feelings using water soluble pigments. However, painting with watercolors can be difficult. It's a difficult medium to master, in large part because it can be ruthless and unpredictable. Mistakes are difficult to correct and its fluid nature makes it difficult to control. Yet it is these very qualities that give the medium its undeniable charm.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Mary Wees

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Mary Wees was born in 1986 in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States of America. In 2009 she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts and Bachelors of Philosophy at Creighton University where she was awarded Excellence in Painting from the department of fine arts. While living in the United States, Wees had three solo expositions at Bellwether Boutique (Omaha, NE), The Bancroft Street Gallery (Omaha, NE), and The Hallway Gallery (Jamaica Plain, MA). In 2009 she was awarded a residency at Empty Room (Omaha, NE) where Wees created and managed an experimental art project called 25 Days of Building; in which she built a space for 25 invited artists to create collaborative work for 25 days. Wees also took part in an art residency program in Chicago Illinois in 2011 called project 7002. In 2012 she moved to France and has continued to work on her art, having a solo show in the village of Sévérac le Château in 2015. Most recently, in October of 2020, Wees was invited to show as part of La Balade D’Ateliers in Nantes, France.

My goal as an artist is to create work representing the space between the objective sense of the world, and the subjective inner understanding of it. My process from untouched paper to finished piece is crucial to reaching this aim. The reason I create my paintings is to represent the ideas and inner realities that connect us but are not easily put into words.

I begin each series with an abstract ink or watercolor painting. I saturate my mind with images and ideas that attract me at the moment of preparation. From there I go to the abstract markings and search for images in the way the pigment has settled. Once images start to emerge, the piece becomes a conversation between the unintentional marks and my well of mental images and ideas. The series becomes a composite of these extracted images, where certain forms and themes persist.