EDITORIAL 10
Isabelle Maury,
an exceptional painter.
By Christian Morisot
Isabelle Maury is possessed by a passion for painting the French Foreign Legion, and more specifically, the legionnaire.
Her recent visit to Saumur left a particularly delicate and high-quality impression.
She discreetly expresses her position on bullfighting without taking a firm stance, and her paintings can be interpreted by both sides, for and against; everyone finds something to appreciate. However, there is no misunderstanding; Isabelle subtly conveys her message.
Isabelle Maury is possessed by a passion for painting the French Foreign Legion, and more specifically, the legionnaire.
Her recent visit to Saumur left a particularly delicate and high-quality impression.
She discreetly expresses her position on bullfighting without taking a firm stance, and her paintings can be interpreted by both sides, for and against; everyone finds something to appreciate. However, there is no misunderstanding; Isabelle subtly conveys her message.
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Painting is not knowledge. Nor is it pleasure. Before experiencing it, the painter is plunged into darkness. He must emerge from it for the transgression of inventing objective and subjective forms to take place. It is projecting oneself into an inner universe while using the incorruptible world of visual reality.
Painting is about discovering the sensitivity to beauty, the kind that leads to an understanding of art and the uncertainty of the laws and criteria of beauty, which often remain unexplained.
“Isabelle” embodies intellectual beauty, expressed through a skillful blending of multiple color varieties, which a deliberate yet controlled indiscipline transforms into a work of art.
For her, there is no deception, only enthusiasm, accentuated, without resorting to calculated word choices, by a genuine natural talent.
Mother Nature, capricious as ever, offers the “trick” of doing things well; she is beautiful and complex in her simplicity… “Isabelle” instinctively understands the proportions of the body, the naturalness of representation, and perfectly captures the key points of articulation, giving her subjects a silhouette, an attitude. It is the image that everyday life reflects back to us.
Like a fairy godmother, she brings a sense of verisimilitude to her drawings and her choice of motifs, which are in a state of perpetual motion. Her canvases all convey the favorable and essential quality that a guiding thread leads her meticulously constructed, thoughtful, crafted, and refined pictorial creations.
Painting is about discovering the sensitivity to beauty, the kind that leads to an understanding of art and the uncertainty of the laws and criteria of beauty, which often remain unexplained.
“Isabelle” embodies intellectual beauty, expressed through a skillful blending of multiple color varieties, which a deliberate yet controlled indiscipline transforms into a work of art.
For her, there is no deception, only enthusiasm, accentuated, without resorting to calculated word choices, by a genuine natural talent.
Mother Nature, capricious as ever, offers the “trick” of doing things well; she is beautiful and complex in her simplicity… “Isabelle” instinctively understands the proportions of the body, the naturalness of representation, and perfectly captures the key points of articulation, giving her subjects a silhouette, an attitude. It is the image that everyday life reflects back to us.
Like a fairy godmother, she brings a sense of verisimilitude to her drawings and her choice of motifs, which are in a state of perpetual motion. Her canvases all convey the favorable and essential quality that a guiding thread leads her meticulously constructed, thoughtful, crafted, and refined pictorial creations.
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Without compromise, she is driven by a formidable professionalism, a quest for perfect color accuracy—a delicate exercise serving to express the elegance of a situation, an event, an emotion.
Painting not the thing itself, but the effect it produces, an enchanting act of creation.
“Isabelle Maury,” a unique and original style of painting, a signature that will inevitably lead to recognition, a necessary consequence for passionate and talented painters, those who directly evoke a powerful emotional response.
A well-deserved tribute to an artist who lives her painting intimately and with purity, and who manages to share her emotions with us, to make us see the world and images with a perspective from another dimension, one that touches the soul.
Isabelle Maury is an "Army Painter" - Honfleur (Lower Normandy) 14600
Painting not the thing itself, but the effect it produces, an enchanting act of creation.
“Isabelle Maury,” a unique and original style of painting, a signature that will inevitably lead to recognition, a necessary consequence for passionate and talented painters, those who directly evoke a powerful emotional response.
A well-deserved tribute to an artist who lives her painting intimately and with purity, and who manages to share her emotions with us, to make us see the world and images with a perspective from another dimension, one that touches the soul.
Isabelle Maury is an "Army Painter" - Honfleur (Lower Normandy) 14600