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Andrée Bars
The End of Innocence, Middle Ages Princess with Unicorn Realist Red Oil Painting
2017

$8,207.10

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« The End of Innocence » This unique oil painting by Andrée Bars depicts a Middle Ages young princess (with the face of Jennifer Aniston) in her red wedding dress and a frightened wooden (yet living) unicorn running away. Andrée Bars was shocked to observe that many drawings from the Middle Ages show hunters killing a unicorn attracted by a young virgin. For the artist, this would represent the end of dreams, of magic and of Nature. She constructed this artwork from this idea. She chose as a starting point the famous tapestries « The Lady and the Unicorn » (exposed in the Musée de Cluny, in Paris), which she reproduced on the background. Indeed, the tapestry conveys a duality between the feminine Oak, with its round leaves and its fruits, and the masculine Holly, with its thorns. Furthermore it is full of tiny flowers symbolising Nature itself. Despite the apparent accuracy of the reproduction of the tapestry, watchful spectators will notice that Andrée Bars introduced two additional characters : a soldier with a bow and a smiling hunter with a crossbow. Are they the unicorn killers ? The whole artwork is dominated by the red color, color of the blood and of violence. However the painting is not oppressive at all. The princess and the unicorn are leaving the tapestry, and by such are also leaving the world of imagination to enter reality — the end of innocence. This transition is materialized by the switch of the graphical style. Andrée Bars is a French painter. Having been strictly trained for 4 years by the American hyper-realist painter Mr. Ted Seth Jacobs, who himself inherited 19th century masters’ skills from his own professor, Andrée Bars learned the profession of painting in its purest tradition. She still applies these ancient masters’ technics on her art. Each painting contains at least three layers of oil paint. Andrée Bars applies her skills to hyperrealism on surrealist ideas. Although her paintings copy the reality to the extreme, they can not be qualified in a simple term of hyperrealism nor of trompe-l’oeil style, her artworks distinguish themselves for a kind of mysterious sweetness they convey to the spectator. During her professional painter’s career of more than 20 years, Andrée Bars has been invited by numerous art fairs and salons in France and in Europe to exhibit her artworks, and was awarded numerous prizes, among which the prestigious Golden Great Prize of the Vittel Salon (“Grand Prix de la ville de Vittel, Or”) in 2016 and the Silver Medal awarded by the Society of French Artists in the Grand Palais, also in 2016.

Details

Artist
Andrée Bars (French)
Creation Year
2017
Medium
Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style
American Realist
Condition
Excellent
Period
2010-

Dimensions
H 35.04 in. x W 45.67 in. x D 0.79 in.H 89 cm x W 116 cm x D 2 cm
Gallery Location
Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Reference Number
LU104115716502

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