ANNA CLARET'S STATEMENT
There are often daily scenes in my work. Looking at everything from the optimistic point of view. I would hope my paintings to transmit to the spectator positive feelings, the joy of everyday life. Trying to make people smile and giving them happy impressions.
Thinking about the world we live in, I just can think of making it more enjoyable as we all have enough to worry about.
My work tries to show another way of looking at life. Simple moments; everyday images.
Not a deep philosophical meaning but philosophical anyhow as to the attitude to life.
I don' t wish the observer to go further than what is seen and my work is just what it shows and should be understood from the very first look, without secrets.
The work combines many facets of my own life, the way I try to life it. It plays with pleasure, joy, innocence, jokes, sarcasm, fun, irony...
The human figure plays the most important part in my works and I am using it to explain stories.
I like the beauty of ordinary bodies, almost imperfect ones, rebuilding their anatomy and accentuating features. Figures with a lot of movement that often are situated into water, it gives me an abstract background to situate the personages in the perfect medium to make them feel free, in an open space.
My paintings are the reflection of the effect my environment has on my life, it enables me to become an observer about what's happening around me, that's why, as a Mediterranean, the sea has influenced my work, its light, its extrovert colors, the heat... not just the sea, but Mediterranean culture, my contact with people and its outdoor life.
I explain stories often working in diptics or triptics to make the scenes continuing.
Composition is very important. I take the image which interests me and work the aesthetic composition through the anatomic construction. And I also mix transparency and opacity together with the line, integrating the figure into space and space into figure. I want line and color to be the same dimension.
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