Isabelle
Plante
Isabelle
Planté was born in Pau in the southern part of France.
She has been painting for almost all of her lifetime. She
held her first exhibition in TAHITI in 1974. Her painting
has moved over the years in the brilliance of more light,
colours that take on a thousand nuances, moving from figurative
to fantastic. Her art enters a land of mystery as though the
artist has broken through her canvas to a word beyond, to
reveal the unknown.
With
perfect mastery of composition and perspective, Isabelle juggles
with proportion like a magician. In these canvases the artists
and dreamers grow huge and dominate the world.
You
must not merely look at her canvases, you must enter them
. It is our world, the world we live in, but we feel it with
a different perception, we enter it with the intuition of
a painter who reveals hidden truths. Our anguished world has
perhaps too much neglected aesthetic comtemplation, that is
infinitely more revealing than the phoney search for occult
that flourishes to left and right.
Isabelle
is a provocative artist who challenges each of us. Behind
her canvas, her mocking eye looks at us looking at her, laughs
at our reaction, and wonders what we can see in what had only
sensed.
In
our pragmatic world, her work teaches us to dream in a tireless
quest, makes us feel the other side of the scenery, urges
us to see more deeply into people and things. She reveals
the multiple facets of beauty and, in a burst of colour, brings
forth the infinite richess of life. As she said:” When
the eye sees without seeing, when it becomes merely the simple
servant of thought, when all becomes magic, Oh, the fantastic
power of painting”.