Tangata Manu - Bird man, 2018

by La Robotte

Painting : acrylic, Indian ink, Pigments, mixed media 100 x 70 x 0.5 cm

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Unique work

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

Authenticity

Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist

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Medium

Painting: acrylic, Indian ink, Pigments, mixed media

Dimensions cm inch

100 x 70 x 0.5 cm Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Black wood frame

Artwork dimensions including frame

100 x 70 x 3 cm


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Fantastic

Landscape

Animal

Anthropomorphism

Bizarre

Flamingos

Jungle

Tropical

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

Tangata Manu is La Robotte's first naturalist work, recently exhibited at the Salon des Beaux Arts at the Carrousel du Louvre with Abd Al Malik and Michel King, godfather and president of the event and under the high patronage of Mr. Emmanuel Macron, president of the French Republic.

According to the explorer Alfred Métraux, the Tangata manu (“bird-man”) is, for one year, the arbiter of conflicts between clans on Easter Island. As such, it is “neutral” and sacred. To become Tangata manu, the Hopu (representative of each clan) must dive into the ocean from the cliff of Orongo, swim with a spray of totora to the uninhabited rocky islet of Motu Nui ("Big rock"), stand there and wait for the first egg of the Manutara tern season to be laid, collect it, swim again to Easter Island and climb the cliff of Rano Kau to bring it back to the ariki nui ("great warrior": the "king" of the island).
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La Robotte, Tangata Manu - Bird man

La Robotte's colorful, lively world drawn in color! This is the artist name of Valérie Chauffour Blémy, who transposes her technique both in her paintings, digital works and in 2D animation. Always attracted by art and science, she engages in scientific studies, but her attraction for art and creation brings her to study applied art in Paris, and then to scientific drawing at the National Museum of Natural History.

Thus, her work is part of a naturalist approach, continually seeking the association of natural sciences with the imagination, in order to make what exists known, in order to better understand and preserve it. Each work allows us to enter a new reality, while remaining anchored to the world around us. The viewer's attention is captured thanks to the artist's technique, which mixes the precision of scientific drawing and the freedom of imaginative drawing in very colorful universes.

She uses colors very precisely, whether with her brushes to deposit her pigments, markers, or in front of her graphics tablet, in order to compose an emotion and a sensation. If her work is very instinctive, she always lets us decipher it by the drawing, which allows her to provide the explanation or the learning, then by the overall composition to consolidate the work in a striking experience.

Thanks to this process, it offers us the experience of a dreamlike journey, while remaining attached to what we know, giving us the opportunity to learn new things and to question ourselves and our relationship to the living world for a few moments.

Her works are usually exhibited in the naturalist section of the Salon des Beaux Arts, which is held every year at the Carroussel du Louvre and soon in the incredible Maison Deyrolle. She has also participated in numerous productions of animated series and documentary films and has also been co-author for a popular medical book in which she has sublimated the human body and its functioning.


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