 Interiors
and landscapes
Monochromatic Charcoal and oils
These monochrome works, oils
and charcoals, have for common root the exploration of the
“chiaroscuro” and the light through the development
of two thematic : the insides (with or without figures) and
the landscape.
This choice is born after having seen the works of the Scandinavian
school of the end of the eighteenth century, in which the
particular treatment of the light, the recurrence of the thematic
of the landscape and the interiors, assumes a particular value.
The "interiors” are intended not only as scenery
of the daily and family life, but above all as receptacle
of the "interior" life and therefore, for extension,
reflected of a state of mind (the thought, the melancholy,
the wait, the memory...). The rooms, the objects, the figures
are shown in their silent intimacy, through a diffused illumination
at times, at times veiled and soft, against-light, or dazzling.
The use of the monochrome with the burnt umber and the grey,
remembers for some aspects the paintings of Eugène
Carrière, (1836 -1905), in which the forms are wound
by the shade with few lights.
In the Maremma's landscapes, Jeanne-Isabelle refers also to
Eugène Atget's photos particularly, to his sights of
the French country and his photos of trees. A choice linked
to her roots, to her infancy spent in the country of the Ile
de France, along the Seine river.
Proceeding her work in negative, that is starting from a dark
base, the search has been to let the forms emerge while caring
out the light. With this technique, the artist's intent is
to get a vibrating effect, sensible to every touch or gesture,
and to focus on the fluid atmosphere rather than on the contour
line of the objects.
Jeanne Isabelle Cornière
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