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HUMAN NATURE

In her latest essay LEARNING TO SEE, the point of view of the living (Editions Actes Sud) , Estelle Zhong Mengual, doctor of art history, offers a reflexion on our relationship to nature, to the living, through our history of art.

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"The western landscape painting would have [...] helped to crystallize our distanced relationship to the living world, representing it as standing in front of us, outside of us, in the form of a view to be contemplated. The use of linear perspective, recurrent in Western landscape painting, would have reinforced this feeling of human exteriority, by proposing an image that unfolds virtually from the eye of the viewer facing the painting, thus giving it a feeling of mastery of the represented space and thus of domination of nature".

 

Estelle Zhong Mengual

 

My "Human Nature" series does not places plants at a distance from humans but inside the faces of my characters.

The question here is the union between several living categories. A living together where relations of domination and exploitation would no longer exist. It is about the conquest of a future of a humanity filled with nature, animality, vegetation, vitality, autonomy and freedom.

Jardin d'Yvoire - Série Human Nature - O

Garden of Yvoire - Acrylic on canvas - 47,2' X 63'

My series "Human Nature" places the vegetation not at a distance from humans but within the faces of my characters. It is a question of the union of the categories of life. A "living together" where relations of domination and exploitation would no longer exist. It is about the conquest of a future of humanity filled with nature, animality, vegetation, vitality, autonomy and freedom.

Abandon - Série Human Nature - Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain
Kiku - Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Kiku - Acrylic on canvas - 23,6' X 23,6'

Abandonment - Acrylic on canvas - 39,4' X 47,2'

Camélia - Artiste Caroline David_edited.

Camélia - Acrylic on canvas - 2 canvas of 23,6' X 31,9'

NINA - Artiste femme peintre contemporaine Caroline David - French contemporary woman painter - French contemporary woman artist Caroline David Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Nina - Acrylic on canvas - 23,6' X 31,9'

MOANA - Artiste femme peintre contemporaine Caroline David - French contemporary woman painter - French contemporary woman artist Caroline David - Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Moana - Acrylic on canvas - 23,6' X 31,9'

Ulys BD Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Ulys - Acrylic on canvas - 47,2' X 47,2'

ROSE - Artiste femme peintre contemporaine Caroline David - French contemporary woman painter - French contemporary woman artist Caroline David Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Rose - Acrylic on canvas - 39,4' X 39,4'

Orchis kiss - Artiste femme peintre contemporaine Caroline David - French contemporary woman painter - French contemporary woman artist Caroline David Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Orchis kiss - Acrylic on canvas - 47,2' X 47,2'

Lotus memories - Artiste femme peintre contemporaine Caroline David - French contemporary woman painter - French contemporary woman artist Caroline David Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Lotus memories - Acrylic on canvas - 47,2' X 47,2'

Palma - Artiste femme peintre contemporaine Caroline David - French contemporary woman painter - French contemporary woman artist Caroline David Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Palma - Acrylic on canvas - 47,2' X 47,2'

Gladiolus femina - Artiste femme peintre contemporaine Caroline David - French contemporary woman painter - French contemporary woman artist Caroline David Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Gladiolus Femina - Acrylic on canvas - 23,6' X 31,9'

Corallium femina - Artiste femme peintre contemporaine Caroline David - French contemporary woman painter - French contemporary woman artist Caroline David Femme Artiste peintre contemporaine Caroline David - Achat de tableau - achat de peinture - Art contemporain

Corallium femina - Acrylic on canvas - 39,4' X 47,2'

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