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JAcQUELiNE PoLitiS-JoBiN

Lives and works in Andrésy, France
www.jpolitis.fr

Ever since I began painting, late in my life, I have been doing it for my own A face that flies, hides or is revealed behind this resemblance of itself,
pleasure. Complete freedom is the rule: «Surtout pas de pensums » like behind the public, everyday-for-everyone face. Recently I have been carried
Toulouse-Lautrec used to say! away by those privileged moments, when the being transcends itself, when
a genius seems inhabited by the spirit of another. I have chosen to reveal
I could say that I was born with a pencil in hand, and from this pencil always the expressions of my favourite conductors: the artist’s face when he lets
human faces sprang which have ever since constituted my favourite subject. himself go, this moment where he lets us see what he gives to hear, when
The human face fascinates me, and I just cannot bring myself to view it as he instills his inner fire to every one of his musicians.
mere object. That is why I like to paint portraits, and that I always pay special
attention to the faces appearing in my living scenes. I like to capture the But this is far from my only subject. Endeavouring to capture the elusive
expressions as they appear in particular moments and situations, to reveal beauty of natural things, to play with reality, to invent abstract but meaningful
the instant’s uniqueness on a face which sometimes turns it into another. shapes, here lay both my joy and my torment.

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