Viviane Case-Fox, a contemporary painter
Canadian painter Viviane Case-Fox was born in Hungary in 1950. To hone her technique, she studied at the Ottawa School of Art, the Saïdye Bronfman Centre in Montreal, and the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount. Viviane Case-Fox's acrylic and oil paintings offer a visual pleasure that borders on abstraction. The color and luminosity of this contemporary artist's paintings often transport us to an exuberant world of contrast, emotion, and sensitivity.
A painting inspired by florals
"Viviane Case-Fox is best known for her paintings, which treat floral bouquets in a very free and often bordering on figurative manner. She depicts them with an undeniable visual quality and not without emotion. We are perhaps less familiar with her landscapes. Very suggestive, even discreet, ethereal in a recognizable form. Her very personal approach to the world immerses the viewer in a universe modulated between physical reality and dreams, sometimes energetic, sometimes peaceful..." Robert Bernier
A Quebec painter, Viviane Case-Fox's artwork is featured in numerous private and public collections. Her work is available in galleries in both the United States (New York and Fort Lauderdale) and Canada (Montreal, Toronto).
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE(S):
Viviane Case-Fox (1950)
Today, there is a wide variety of styles and languages in painting that resonate with a broad prism of motivations among art lovers. Not everyone is interested in painting in the same way or is looking for the same thing. Within this wide range of sometimes divergent aesthetic and plastic interest, artists and amateurs alike remain attached to the pictorial tradition, not for the folkloric dimension, but for that very particular feeling, that sudden and intense joy that transports us when a well-executed painting, brushed with passion and nuance, exalts that subtle modulation of forms, colors and textures that seduces and intrigues the eye, then the entire body. Painting enthusiasts all have a classical side, and it is with pleasure, even enthusiasm, that they drink in a painting executed with skill and mastery. The style matters little and, strictly speaking, neither do the theme and the subject, at least at first glance.
Viviane Fox's painting provides this visual pleasure. Her approach reflects both her immense respect for the pictorial act and her equally powerful desire to elevate her subject, to draw it from its apparent banality and lead it into a buffer universe located on the borders of physical reality and the world of emotion. The visible and the invisible rub shoulders in her works in the same way that tradition associates with mystery. In fact, her painting is ageless. It is neither modern nor ancient, yet without suffering from senility or creating a sense of déjà vu. The artist does not seek to renew the practice of painting; rather, she strives to render, in her own way, all the pictorial power with the greatest possible skill and sensitivity. She seeks to translate her own pleasure in painting, and she does so by committing herself entirely, with her whole being. We find in his painting the impulses of the greatest painters, and his only fault is perhaps not seeking complexity, that of the subject or the way of approaching it. Of course, the simplicity of his approach can also have its interest, because it must be admitted that the artist does it rather well. Very well even. And the reason is simple. Everything depends on the quality of his touch, which allows him to paint a picture with anger and restraint, violence and calm. I read somewhere that Viviane Case Fox admired the work of Joan Mitchell. I saw in her paintings the same vitality of gesture carried by a mixture of despair and joy. This sensation that gives certain artists this salutary vertigo, this constant fear of losing the painting. Painting is like diving and each time learning to swim again; at least that is what Édouard Manet said. And what I like most about Viviane Fox's work is the quality of her fights, the incredible energy that emanates from them.
Source: Robert Bernier, La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960, Les Éditions de l’Homme, 2002, Case-Fox Viviane Case-Fox (1950), pages 364-365.
TO LEARN MORE:
- MIXTE MAGAZINE - VIVIANE CASE-FOX, POWER OF GESTURE
- L'EXPRESS - VIVIANE CASE-FOX: AN EXPLOSION OF COLORS AT THE DISTILLERY
