Francoise de felice biography books

Hello friends,

How are you? Spring is blooming all around us here in Oregon and it is truly so beautiful! My kiddos are finally all healthy (knock on wood) and we are looking forward to a trip to Disneyland for Grace&#;s 8th birthday in April! The Claire Bear will stay behind this time with her grandparents, so the trip should be a tad more relaxing.

So, I&#;m still working through my Jeanne Oliver online art course where we focus on one master artist each week. It&#;s been a very inspiring process! One week, our teacher was Kate Thompson and she introduced the artist, Françoise de Felice to us. Oh my! I&#;m in love. (Thank you Kate!) Her dreamy work is amazing&#;see for yourself&#;

Stunning right? I adore the haunting, layered mystery of her work. I could stare at each piece for hours, visually deciphering the meaning behind the expressions and gestures of her subjects. Piecing together the story and admiring the interwoven patterns and textures, the subtly of color&#;sigh. I told you I was in love. Totally enamored.

What do you think of her work? If you LOVE it&#;I dedicated an entire Pinterest board to her. Check it out here to see more of her magical creations.

Hope you having a wonderful week.

xo,

Ivy

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BIOGRAPHY:

Françoise de Felice is of Italian descent through her father. She was born in Paris and spent her first 20 years there. As a young girl, she was introduced to graphic art by her grandmother, who had attended an advertising workshop during the time of Fernand Leger and the Chat Noir cabaret. Concurrently, she studied at the Sorbonne and audited the school of Beaux-Arts.
Françoise&#;s first work was impressionist in style, until Then she left France and settled in Sicily. She was no longer satisfied with the French impressionism style. She developed her personality off the beaten track and created her unique signature. She began to sketch the splendor of Sicilian baroque and the light of the island, in fluid shapes and fine but precise lines.
Her style was born of randomness and will. She turned her painting into an introspective story, as a way of self-analysis. After many trips back and forth between the Mediterranean and France, she settled near Paris in and from her studio, organized a series of international exhibitions in places such as Caracas Padua, Rome, London, Paris, and Geneva.

One could describe her work as a story on femininity, soft, and melancholic. Like in a hologram, we fall into a subliminal and poetic labyrinth. Ambiguities are played out in a complex world where she fights her demons. Nothing is perfectly serene in Françoise&#;s canvas. Hidden streaks of colors and drips reveal a break with the continuity of the dream or the aborted tale. A figure is followed by her double, a green woman poses and glare suspiciously or inquisitively at a group standing there, doing nothing, waiting, or meditating until they disappear as women to symbolize the androgynous nature of our being.

Starting from distinctly female subjects, we are starting to apprehend intimate echoes of the subconscious. Birds or other animals lose their gender and embody symbols found in mythology or stories molded in the collective unconscious. Defining a work&#;s ce

Savoy nobleman, theologian and abolitionist (–)

Guillaume Adam de Félice, 4th Comte de Panzutti (–) was a Savoy nobleman, theologian and abolitionist.

Biography

Early life

Félice was born on 12 March in Otterberg and died on 23 October in Lausanne and was the grandson of Fortunato de Felice, 2nd Comte di Panzutti, by his son Bernard, 3rd Comte di Panzutti. Guillaume grew up in a French environment as the family settled in Lille in , and inherited his grandfather's vigour for radicalism and academia, and the family title, Comte di Panzutti in , aged He studied theology at Strasbourg and Lausanne universities and was accepted into the Church in He became a pastor at the Reformed Church of Bolbec, in NormandySeine-Maritime, then a professor of theology in Montauban, occupying the chair 'de morale et d'éloquence sacrée' (of morality and holy speech). In later life he settled in his family town of Yverdon and married Joséphine Rivier, the daughter of a local aristocrat. They had two children, Sophie de Félice and Théodore de Félice. His daughter Sophie unusually inherited the title suo jure, with her and her husband becoming Count and Countess di Panzutti, Henri François Louis Gabriel Guisan, and thus their grandchildren became cousins of General Henri Guisan, later Commander in Chief of the Swiss Army during WWII. From this branch the family are also second cousins of the baronial family of Stael-Holstein and the ducal family of de Broglie.

Abolitionism

Whilst at Bolbec, it is thought that his interest in abolitionism was heightened due to its proximity to the slave-port of Le Havre. Félice started the movement against the French slave camps in Guadeloupe, at the time a very controversial subje