How The Dutch Artists Influenced The Contemporary Art…

Online, October 2, 2013 (Newswire.com) - If talking about paintings, still-lives and vanities, you come to the name Laurence Longueville. Visual artist known for her oil paintings, using photographies, mixing different pictures to make a new one, giving us a "photo-landscape" painted on a large canvas, showing both the futility of pleasures, and the obsession with death. A new "Memento Mori" is born, created and painted on a large canvas, as usual for Longueville.

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The Longueville's production combines in a vibrant colorful contemporary interpretation, using the traditional symbols used by Dutch artists in the 16th and 17th centuries, including watches, insects, butterflies, musical instruments, flowers, fruits and skull.
The very creation Longueville achieved a performance of corner-month period, while working and re-working the composition and the achievement of each large canvas, always intriguing us with sometimes hidden, sometimes emerging leitmotiv, our thoughts about the worthless everyday life, the certainty of death and the temporary nature of vanity.

Longueville's artistic evolution is such interdisciplinary connections, close to the community, thinking's, doubts, thoughts, gains and losses from conscience, imaginary, brakes, fear and hope. Through her creations, she asks us to use our deep consciousness, finding souvenirs purporting colors, smells, images, feelings, created by unconscious, all what is stored in our memory.

She lived for many years in Geneva in Switzerland, after a long stay in Germany. 
She achieved DES University of Business Administration, and she learned the art and interior design. Longueville accredited by the Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid, the exhibition of her works in Europe and the United States, and is involved in projects such as the ongoing collaborative art and design and art exhibitions/fairs.

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Oil painting, why oil ? and how is it done ? Discover all the secrets below :
You are a fan of oil paintings. You have read a lot of literature, attended by more than a dozen exhibitions, art combine centralized organization and even buy works of art on canvas a few? Well the first thing you do is to appreciate them, of course, put them in places where you can see and admire the beauty of oil and canvas.


Oil painting is a work of art made by combining color with a medium of drying oil.
The most commonly used medium is linseed oil despite walnut oil, and safflower oil Poppyseed oil is also utilized. Choice of oil depends on its impact on the pigment, the more quickly they dry or cause a yellowish discoloration. Consistency of oil paint may differ depending on the drying oil.