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Antoine
Gaber is a Canadian painter of international fame. The artwork
he creates is significant as he is fully dedicated to his
passion for nature. One can say that no landscape is beyond
his limits. He paints oceans, snowed forests, grasslands,
rivers, flowers ... everything that can be painted. He is
known to be an impressionist; a present day artist who embraces
a style whose roots have not yet stopped its development.
Even though Gaber's artwork has a lot of common characteristics
with Impressionist painters (such as love for landscapes or
the desire to capture a moment and its ambience), he is a
knowledgeable painter with a personal voice and style.
Manet and other
impressionists had a different moment vision, an immediate
and fleeting vision. This can be perceived, for example, by
the observation of the procedures they used on their drawings
(sketched and very fast), on the colour emphasis and the lack
of dark shadows being replaced by cold blue tones. Impressionists
are known to stop their gaze a few centimetres away from the
selected object creating a certain vagueness of forms in their
artwork. However, beyond similarities and differences, we
should state that Antoine Gaber's artwork defends its own
values with his own personal style and astonishment in front
of nature. From his inner feelings we can feel the need to
create an image, an expression of life; the need to transform
a dead matter into something alive. That is the main desire
beating in a truthful artist of all times.
Antoine Gaber is a tuned colorist who captures the spiritual
ambience of each landscape with its infinite shades and with
his sharp sensibility he is able to invent a world that is
an expression of universal sense. Through fine arts, those
strong feelings he has when he is in front of nature in motion,
are dumped into images filled with life. His style presents
a defined sketching, while his lights and shadows and sometimes
his insinuated "chiaroscuro" reveal the special
nature of each motif. He is an observer who enjoys stopping
with delight in front of a special bush or flower but without
leaving the great sceneries of landscapes.
With his original
and current work, Antoine Gaber, during these times of great
uncertainty, manages to seize the legacy of beauty left to
art by the Impressionists, helping us to keep some values
which are about to disappear. This artist knows that in nature
some extraordinary harmonies are awaiting to be discovered
for those who come close to it with their eyes and their heart
wide opened.
Sarah
Guerra, Member of the Argentine Association of Art Critics
and the International Association of Art Critics
July
2005
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