Akari
“Akari, in Japanese, means a glow, a light. The light you carry inside you. This work is my homage to Georges de La Tour, the seventeenth-century painter …
€800 — Popsan
“Akari, in Japanese, means a glow, a light. The light you carry inside you. This work is my homage to Georges de La Tour, the seventeenth-century painter who would set a candle beside a face and let colour do the rest. I wanted to take up that play of light, but within my own world: Japan. I start from an entirely black ground and bring the skin up layer by layer, in transparency — what is called building up in glazes. The lantern I paint last. It decides everything else.” A woman in profile, in a blue kimono with gold motifs, holds a lit paper lantern at chest height. The background is black, with no setting at all: the lantern is the only source of light, picking out the forehead, the che…
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