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Rue St Melaine - Rennes

Rue St Melaine - Rennes

France

Nathalie Chapelain

Paint

Style: Figurative

Oil and Knife , Canva, 2024

100 cm x 100 cm

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This painting, dominated by shades of red ochre, offers a bold and contemporary interpretation of Rue Saint-Mélaine in Rennes. The warm tones create an atmosphere that is both lively and welcoming, tinged with a slight melancholy. The chosen perspective draws the viewer into the heart of the scene, as if they could walk down the street and share a moment with passersby. This process creates a real proximity between the work and its audience, making the visual experience all the more immersive. The palette knife painting, with its reliefs and unique texture, breathes vitality into the composition. It almost suggests the movement of the crowd and the bustle of the street, while opening up a depth that irresistibly captures the eye.

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About the artist Nathalie Chapelain

Having just arrived in Rennes, I quickly took the pulse of this organic city – small enough to be affordable, large enough to offer a host of urban panoramas. From the perspective of a newcomer, I observed, for a long time, on foot, the everyday landscapes: squares, intersections, buildings… Far from the timber-framed buildings, the markets and the parks, to see “what makes a city”, to watch its heart beat. To understand its intimacy, what is never shown. Its rains. Its nights. Its asphalt. Its reflections.

It is this alphabet that writes the daily life of Rennes that I wanted to paint in a sharp, knife-like manner. Like Rennes, the lines are vivid, the colors pop, and energy bursts forth from behind the false tranquility of the wise buildings.

At the other end of Rennes, at the very end, other territories: the sea, the ocean, the harbors, the docks... always within train reach. From my platform I set off on an expedition to the port cities with the same approach: to paint the beauty of everyday life at sea, the delicate harshness of the raw port construction sites. The infinity of colors faded by the years. Machines and men, rust and definitive horizons. The majesty of sea vessels that express, in their own way, the power of the ordinary.