Golden hours N°2, 2023
Anaïs LF

Color pallet :

• The dominant colors are shades of gold, black, brown, and white
• We can also observe subtle touches of yellows and grays.

Composition and Style:

• The painting is done in an abstract style with flowing, swirling movements.
• Colors mix and contrast organically, creating varied shapes and textures.
• The work gives an impression of depth, with some areas darker and others lighter, which gives a three-dimensional effect to the work.

Technique:

• The technique used is a combination of acrylic paint and ink to obtain this marbled and fluid effect.
• Paint movements suggest dynamic application with pours or mixtures directly onto the canvas.

Emotion and Interpretation:

• The work evokes emotional intensity through the use of warm colors and strong contrasts.

Atmosphere :

• The painting creates an atmosphere that is both dramatic and mystical, inviting the viewer to freely interpret the shapes and colors.
• It can evoke feelings of passion, mystery and contemplation.

In summary, this work by Anaïs LF is an abstract painting rich in texture and emotion, using a warm color palette and dynamic blending techniques to create a captivating and expressive composition.

On its history:

This painting comes from the first series of works created by the artist Anaïs LF. With the golden hours, with more golden tones, these works mark a turning point in Anaïs' artistic career. Indeed, in this first series, she first experiments with bright but rather floral, natural colors. With gold and copper, these paintings mark a certain parenthesis with a desire to play with reflections, light, echoes...

A first series which marks the departure towards the exploration of feelings

In this first series "Les Révélations", coming from the movement of abstract expressionism, Anaïs LF completely covers the canvases with paint, a technique commonly called "All over". It is a transcription of feelings, often extreme.

Painting therefore becomes with this first series, a new benchmark, a return to oneself. This first series of paintings marks the starting point towards a means of expressing (and not illustrating) the feelings and experiences that pass through her, in their contrasts and their depths. A means also of expressing this global, affective, hypersensitive, intuitive, dazzling thought that was often rejected from her, but which she ends up accepting thanks to her art.

Main current: Abstract expressionism for the freedom of expression of feelings, of heightened sensitivity, like intimate and personal writing.

Abstract expressionism is based on movement, encounters, color contrasts. In total break with figuration, Abstract Expressionism reveals an intensity that is as concrete as psychic and spiritual.

Instead of painting on an easel, Anaïs LF places her canvases on the floor: this is the dripping technique. On the ground, she felt more at ease, with a need for anchoring and reference Like most artists who have marked this movement, she does not use brushes or palettes.

She paints with her hands, a stick, a knife from time to time, but above all a very fluid painting. His pictorial technique in this series refers more to action painting (or sometimes gestural abstraction). The action, the powerful gesture, the intensity of the brushstroke and the squirts of paint evoke the impulse charge necessary for the creation of the works. The work of the motif is characteristic of his works, which are intended to be profound, as a means of exteriorizing.

Each of the works from this series is an experience of which neither the progress nor the result are predictable. It often starts from a first layer which covers the canvas. Then, this proposal capable of multiple potential developments leads to a dialogue, a meeting. The successive choices gradually give birth to the poetry of the painting. His choices depend and respond to a certain way of being in this world

In this first series "Les Révélations", from the movement of abstract expressionism, Anaïs LF completely covers the canvases with paint, a technique commonly called "All over" It is a transcription of feelings, often extreme.

Painting therefore becomes with this first series, a new benchmark, a return to oneself. This first series of paintings marks the starting point towards a means of expressing (and not illustrating) the feelings and experiences that pass through her, in their contrasts and their depths. A means also of expressing this global, affective, hypersensitive, intuitive, dazzling thought that was often rejected from her, but which she ends up accepting thanks to her art.

Main current: Abstract expressionism for the freedom of expression of feelings, of heightened sensitivity, like intimate and personal writing.

Abstract expressionism is based on movement, encounters, color contrasts. In total break with figuration, Abstract Expressionism reveals an intensity that is as concrete as psychic and spiritual.

Instead of painting on an easel, Anaïs LF places her canvases on the floor: this is the dripping technique. On the ground, she felt more at ease, with a need for anchorage and reference points. Like most artists who have marked this movement, she does not use brushes or palettes.

She paints with her hands, a stick, a knife from time to time, but above all a very fluid painting. His pictorial technique in this series refers more to action painting (or sometimes gestural abstraction). The action, the powerful gesture, the intensity of the brushstroke and the squirts of paint evoke the impulse charge necessary for the creation of the works. The work of the motif is characteristic of his works, which are intended to be profound, as a means of exteriorizing.

Anaïs LF, Granville, October 2022

Each of the works from this series is an experience of which neither the progress nor the result are predictable. It often starts from a first layer which covers the canvas. Then, this proposal capable of multiple potential developments leads to a dialogue, a meeting. The successive choices gradually give birth to the poetry of the painting. His choices depend on and respond to a certain way of being in this world.

It is common to say that fluid paints often require a certain level of mastery and technique to handle successfully. For Anaïs LF, it was fluidity that called her. She will experience the reaction of colors between them, the meeting of colors, textures, their pigments and their nuances... Water thus occupies an important place in her creative process within this series of works. The fluidity of water mixes with that of paint, sometimes ink, to offer unparalleled creative freedom, since it allows you to play with the effects of transparency, superposition and unique contrasts. Some also observe flowing and marbling effects, thus giving an organic and dynamic character to the works.