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Andrée Bars"The Temptation", Dreamscape with Leopard and Gargoyle Symboliste Oil Painting
$1,071.73List Price
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- Dimensions:Height: 10.63 in (27 cm)Width: 18.12 in (46 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Clermont-Ferrand, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1041114560482
Andrée Bars
Andrée Bars is a French painter. Having been strictly trained for four years by the American hyper-realist painter Ted Seth Jacobs, who himself inherited 19th-century master’s skills from his professor, Bars learned the profession of painting in its purest tradition. She still applies these ancient master’s techniques on her art. Each painting contains at least three layers of oil paint. Bars apply her skills of hyper-realism 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'œil style, her artworks distinguish themselves for a kind of mysterious sweetness they convey to the spectator.
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