We had, almost 14 years ago and for 6 months (from 01/07/2010 to 01/12/2010), devoted our section "Our Glance at . . .".Tanagra does not have a traditional background and has no art school in the strict sense of the word. In 1966, she met the man who would become her master in the Atelier des Artistes de la Cité Ordener (Montmartre, Paris). She worked for ten years with him, learning, perfecting her techniques, seeking her way of expression. She draws, paints, does not expose herself, favoring...

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  Biography of Tanagra-Raffard

  We had, almost 14 years ago and for 6 months (from 01/07/2010 to 01/12/2010), devoted our section "Our Glance at . . .".
  Tanagra does not have a traditional background and has no art school in the strict sense of the word. In 1966, she met the man who would become her master in the Atelier des Artistes de la Cité Ordener (Montmartre, Paris). She worked for ten years with him, learning, perfecting her techniques, seeking her way of expression. She draws, paints, does not expose herself, favoring research for nearly 15 years. It was during a stay in West Africa, in 1980, that Tanagra truly discovered the mode of expression to which she remains faithful today; black and white are imposed on her (lead mine, charcoal). The artist comes out of the shadows, participating in his first collective exhibitions (Biennale of young Mediterranean painting - Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice) before personal exhibitions are organized. Tanagra’s art has its roots in the history of his own life, education and experience; it draws its vocation from the history of the ancients. His world, an exploration of the interior, bathes in the Mystery (aspect of an infinite reality). “My approach is philosophical and takes inspiration from profane to sacred. It is a painting inhabited by a surrealist spirit,” writes Tanagra.The artist, who is said to be unclassifiable and out of fashion, has drilled his own writing, between classical and contemporary. The foundations of his pictorial practice are chiaroscuro (process developed in the Renaissance), work on shadow and light; glaze (technique that allows to obtain transparencies and depths), a parallel and solitary way, comes to her in the early 2000s. The glacis of Tanagra, sober and of great depth, are of a remarkable intensity; its white or pale yellow gradually emerge from blacks or browns, creating a dimension that oscillates between past and future, between real and unreal.Tanagra lives and works in Vallauris (Alpes-Maritimes, southern France). She loves cats, her life is lonely. Isn’t she used to saying she married painting?“Sanctuary of Chiaroscuro. Theatre of hopes and despair, writing of impulses and a memory that weaves its web through darkness,” writes Tanagra.
  

  

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