Anne de Giry

Anne de Giry graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1972, engraving section. Bachelor of Arts and Sciences of Art, Censier / Sorbonne, 1972. Master of Arts History and in-depth study diploma, Panthéon / Sorbonne 1981. Professor of Visual Arts in the schools of the City of Paris, retired since 2007. My work involves the pursuit of several objectives: - To create compositions with complex structures, by subtle networks of lines which intersect and then express rays or light beams striking the objects which are there. Minerals, giant precious stones or landscape elements (for example the song crystal canvas). The internal structure of these objects, even internal ones, however proceeds from the rest of the composition as a whole. - Obtaining a beautiful pictorial material, Anne de Giry works the old-fashioned way by different superimposing layers, dry, semi-dry, semi-oily to oily and numerous glazes. The artist sometimes incorporates glitter and glued paper or other elements. -Finally, when characters invite themselves into the paintings, it is not their physical-bodily reality but the embodiment of a psychological, surreal or phantasmatic reality. The characters in the works of Anne de Giry rather express a feeling or an idea, rather than an allegory, a question or a state of being Anne draws very many sketches and sketches of different sizes then proceeds by elimination in the choice what she is going to paint when it comes to characters or anecdotal objects. Celtic Mythology Celtic mythology has the particularity of having only one feminine divine principle. In mythical literature and in toponymy, various important deities are its emanations. As in Greek mythology (Jason and Medea, the matricide of Orestes ...), Celtic legends often relate the conflicts and tragedies resulting from the passage from the “primitive” matriarchy to the patriarchy of “progress”, from maternal rights (sexual freedom and love) ) paternal rights (marriage, virginity, and sexual repression). They testify to this nostalgia for an old bygone era, paradise lost in the guise of the world of Féérie, the Sidh ("the other world", or world of spirits, because there is neither hell nor paradise among the pagans. ), parallel universe or under water, and beyond the oceans, kingdoms where powerful fairies reign, wonderful islands of women, youth and abundance, where time and suffering are no more. The land of the fairies is fundamentally matriarchal in essence. Evidenced by these many fairies and Ladies of the Lake (who gave the Sword to King Arthur), most often unmarried (supposed and called "virgins" like Diana-Artemis), who seduce and collect valiant mortals. Woe to anyone who dares to reject the advances of these ladies. The lucky ones will see themselves sent to "the other world", during a hunt, pursuing a magic game, a supernatural white animal (doe, deer, wild boar ... a totemic, heraldic, sacred animal), which will attract them through of an invisible door of the Sidh, so that they relearn good loving manners towards women. The Celtic pantheon is populated by many goddesses such as Brigit, mother of all gods. She reigns over the arts, war, magic and medicine. But also Dana, the primordial mother of the ancient elven race of the Tuatha Dé Danann (son of Dana). They are heroes and magicians (Bansidh). They master Druidism, knowledge and the arts. They came from wonderful islands in the north of the world, to reign over Ireland until the Aryan invasions of the Milesians (Celts who came through Spain in 500 BC).