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CLEM PELTIER
BEHIND THE CANVAS
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First phase: Collecting ideas
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The origin and symbols of script, Akkadian epigraphy and the decypherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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The Old Testament
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Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Attali, ...
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Travel observations
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News and events
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Second phase: Research
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As an artist my thinking process tends to be iterative and recursive rather than linear.
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It includes suprarational as well as rational inputs, creative and uncommon observations, non-searched findings.
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Metaphores and dreams play an important role.
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Third phase: Sketching
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Studio sketching of nude and non-nude models.
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Outdoor sketching of landscapes, horses, ...
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Fourth phase: Painting
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I’ve spend a large part of my life studying and applying a wide variety of techniques. I still experiment with new techniques all the time.
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I’ve always considered myself a pupil of the great Flemish masters; Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Adriaen Brouwer, .... The fact that I live and work in the same region as they did only strengthens that feeling. I use many of their techniques for my oil on canvas paintings.
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Fifth phase: Finished work
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Making abstract thought visible.
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In the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the musical and the dramatic element intertwine. "Orpheus struck such harmonies on his sweet lyre that trees came up the hill and surrounded him."
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