TREES,
São
Paulo,
Brazil
Oil
on
canvas.
Private
collection,
U.S.A.
I
was
very
young
and
living
with
my
parents
in
a suburb
of
São
Paulo
when
I painted
this
. My
favourite
artist
at
the
time
was
Van
Gogh.
I had
taken
drawing
lessons
in
Paris
from
a very
good
but
unknown
painter
and
teacher,
Pierre
Bressoud,
and
in
Brazil
I occasionally
visited
the
studio
of
an
abstract
painter,
Flexor.
But
most
of
all
I was
influenced
and
taught
by
the
intense
tropical
colours
and
vitality
of
everything
I saw
in
South
America.
In
this
landscape
I focused
especially
on
the
shapes
between
and
around
the
trees,
the
way
that
they
fitted
together
like
a jigsaw.
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copyright
Natalie
d'Arbeloff
2002
