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 MARIE ANtOINEttE, 2008 CONCEPT MAkEUP & HAIR BY ROUgE LEFEBvRE
16X20 IN. /40X50 CM. MODEL AMANDA NADEAU, PHOTO BY TAMARA FISET
rouge lefeBVre  PhANtOM LADY, 2009 MEDIUM CONCEPT MAkE UP & HAIR 40,5X50,5 CM.
/16X20 IN., MODEL RONDA LAINE DESROCHER, PHOTO BYANDREA hAuSMANN
Lives and works in Montreal, Québec Canada  ZEN GIRL, 2009 BODY INk MAkE UP AND HAIR BY ROUgE LEFEBvRE16X20 IN.
/40X50 CM. MODEL IOANA, PHOTO BY MICHAEL DAvANTES
* INTERIOR FRONT COvER: thE RABBIt, 2006 BODY ART BY ROUgE LEFEBvRE
THE ARTIST ONLINE www.rougeart.ca
16X20 IN. /40X50 CM. MODEL CLOé, PHOTO BY FRANçOIS BONNEAU
Body Art - everlasting peace of illumination: As a conceptual artist in the
aesthetics, my work unifies art with fashion. Rouges’ inspiration comes
from a vision of magic-spiritual of the Orient and Occident. New and Old
worlds. References in belief of renaissance and serenity. Rouge lived her
childhood with impaired hearing. She went to Ballet School in Argenteuil
of the famous Ludmilla Chiriaeff founder of Les grands Ballets Canadiens
which helped to improve balance and knowledge of body language and
opened a new frontier to figurative art. She then studied Fine Arts in
Toronto and make-up artistry and hairstyling in Montreal. She is constantly
recreating herself with ventures in fashion, theater, mime, music, and
dance, through traveling, which is a pilgrimage. She uses esoteric position
and an intuitive approach in creating iconic pictures. “One’s authentic self
is recreated with ornamentation and use of lace masks and macramé.”
Influenced by Haute couture glitter Rock ambient music, Dutch and
Italian paintings masters inspiration and all of this was utilized into using
the body as a canvas. She built workshops in lace make-up and created
exhibitions shown in many countries, making it accessible to wear for
special events, for brides to be, special portraits and linked everything
into a fashion podium. The research is highly crafted into hybrid languages
of design. The body and energy is about hope. The esthetic is the crown.
It is a ritual to immortalize the spirit. Always new and like the historical
content a biography of one’s identity it becomes a celebration. I feel the
impression goes beyond knowing we are Mona Lisa or man of god, an
eternal picture with a painter’s eye and a dancer’s choreography. It is a
constant journey to make one close to the image of which they dream. So
many questions about how we see identity. The body is a sacred temple.

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