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by Dominique d'Orange

The creative force of artworks has the power to affect you in such a positive way, as a hunger which needs to be saturated. I love visiting museums to take in a work, experience it, have it penetrate my mind and feelings.

 When a piece truly touches me, it keeps on crossing my mind after the exhibition and genuinely inspires me to start creating myself.

There’s nothing I’d rather do on a slow Sunday morning than examine an impressionist painting, slowly inhaling its pervading atmosphere, reflecting on its age.

From the moment my interest in art was aroused, I felt a need to study certain aspects of art.
The study of  techniques has broadened my view on art. I think one needs to learn to see art, descry void, colour, composition, texture, … Observing in this manner adds to the experience. The same goes for the study of art history.

To me, creating and bringing series to perfection is a valuable way to study and fully grasp a particular subject. When you work on a subject for a longer period of time, both your perception and insight grow. I just finished series on the crucial expressive elements in abstraction, called Man of Sorrow ( MOS). My newest series is called In the Eye of the Beholder.

Be it Mondrian, Rothko, Gauguin, Modigliani, architecture, abstract or Renaissance art, art is a creation I cannot miss. Realism or Abstract Expressionism, as long as art affects my state of mind, it’s a success. Most important of all art fulfills me.

Dominique d'Orange( 1948), an extremely productive Belgian artist, enrolled in the art school in Bruges and studied at the academy of Fine Arts in Ostend.

Her pieces evolved from an early classical to a highly distinctive contemporary and graphic style and render a message of culture, criticism and social commentaries.

Her vast oeuvre consists of acrylic, oil and wall paintings, aluminium, diasec and paper prints, series, installations, mixed media and multimedia work, photography, pastel drawings, gouache, abstract and graphic work, which she exhibited all over the world.

It is to her credit that she studied, taught and created art throughout life.
After a lifetime of studying, teaching and creating art, the inquisitive artist came to a point of having a clear and defined view upon what defines art. Fundamentally her art lays the emphasis on creation, shape, lines, composition and colour. Art is redefining and abstracting.

At the moment the artist is focusing on series. She completed the 45 piece series of the Man of Sorrow in 2009 and is now putting the finishing touches to the newest series “In the eye of the beholder”.

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http://www.dominiquedorange.com/

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