The Complementary Experience 3D Render, Digital Artwork by Marcopol

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The Complementary Experience

3D Render by Marcopol

freely inspired by the Edouard Dantan's painting : L'atelier du peintre, 1885.
https://www.meisterdrucke.fr/fine-art-prints/Edouard-Joseph-Dantan/835190/Atelier-du-peintre,-1885.html

The Complementary Experience

It was the end of a beautiful day's work in the studio. While the model, still naked, contemplated her image on the canvas, the painter seemed to be waiting for her answer. She made this unusual suggestion: "What if you posed for me?" His first instinct was to laugh in her face, but something determined in the young woman's gaze stopped him. He found himself replying with an unsure "Okay." "In the same outfit I had on!" she suggested before putting on a bathrobe. "Of course!" he replied, unsure of his ability to extricate himself from behind the screen. Yet that's exactly what he did, sitting down in his Adam's outfit on the model stand. "You won't mind if I keep my painter's trappings!" and skillfully, he placed his palette, unaccustomed to his body being the object of gazes other than his own. The young woman grabbed a chalk and began to sketch out her study. The sun on his skin soothed his doubts, while he was reassured by the rhythm of the regular sound of the drawing's strokes. He didn't dare move, it was the challenge to take up, only his eyes roamed the room and his model, in a way he had never practiced. He told himself that there were many greens in this space, and that he would have to find a counterpoint for his future paintings. It was then that to better draw him, his model leaned over and nonchalantly slipped off her dressing gown, offering her forms to the light again. This involuntary gesture, at this inopportune moment, overwhelmed him with emotion, to the point of making his cheeks flush. He felt in the warmth of this color, more than he saw it, all the complementarity that the presence of his model brought to his practice. In her sensitivity as a model, she must have understood the nature of his painter's disorder, which transformed his skin like the surface of a living canvas, because she then thought to herself: "I did well to take a red chalk, to make this flesh vibrant."

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guy91600Tue, Sep 30

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I wondered whether the female model was correcting the painter's work, or whether, as a painter herself, she was adding her own artistic touch to the painting.
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Je me demandais si le modèle féminin corrigeait le travail du peintre, ou si, elle même peintre ajoutait le peintre au tableau

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