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 BORN tO BE cIRcuMcISED?,2009 OIL ON CANvAS 27,5x41 IN. /70x105 CM.
Jette Van Der lenDe  thE NORNES wEB, 2009 OIL ON CANvAS 27,5X27,5 IN. /70X70 CM.
 tRANSFORMED INtO whAt?, 2009 OIL ON CANvAS 27,5X27,5 IN. /70X70 CM.
Lives and works in Oppegaard, Norway

THE ARTIST ONLINE www.jette.nu The lucidity and control through which Jette van der Lende paints her
seemingly modest objects and spaces create a deeply saturating aural
experience for the viewer. What might this aura cling to? It is clearly given
over to the sensed experience of the artist. This experience triangulates
between several aspects of creative activity of giving form and then giving
life to form. The first aspect under scrutiny are her mental, ideational
and ideological responses to the object or objects she depicts (their
representation) as signified. Next are her sensations that are given form
through the handling of her paint along the surface of her pictorial plane,
including the layering and feathering of her collared brush strokes, the
compositional structure, the balancing of hues and shadows. Finally one
might consider the third aspect her emotional responses to herself, her
mental condition and psychic disposition as she pictorially refers to her
subjects as signifiers. This aspect of her vision takes into account the
correspondences that are made as the artist begins and ends the activity
of painting. Call this the Mallarmean aspect (we are referring here to the
poet’s injunction to describe not the thing but the effect of the thing on
the mind). The end result of course is the object that we as viewers see
in its completed form, the finished painting (Excerpt)
D.F. Colman, art writer, Manhattan

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