click images to enlarge Biography Sophie Le Dain’s work is both original and innovative in its concept and its composition. She pays tribute in a very personal manner to the great Italian renaissance masters and to all of the artists for whom they were a great source of inspiration. She has adapted their masterpieces to the modern day using graphic and calligraphic techniques. Her wide range of typographies (English, Gothic, Celtic), from the most ancient to the most modern, is mixed with the precise and neatly detailed examples of classical painting represented by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Ingres or with the more impetuous and fluid compositions of Michelangelo and Rubens. A double interpretation results harmoniously thanks to the subtle play of light and color and the differences nuances of copper, gloss or powder. Sophie’s artwork is full of sensuality and humour. Her favourite themes are the beauty of bodies and faces, love and exoticism. Her favourite pleasure: the diversion of masterpieces through unexpected pairings (the Satyr and the maiden in “Beauty and the Beast”), through improbable meetings (Leonardo da Vinci and Durer in “Wisdom”) or through the meetings of different eras (Eugene Franck and Durer in “Adam and Eve”). Sophie Le Dain mixes several techniques with virtuosity: acrylic resin, oil, pastel.              The backgrounds of her compositions are always dark and thus give an expressive force to the selected masterpiece.  It is done in a way to reflect a perfect balance between light, colors, drawing, expression and composition. A symmetrical composition takes place in a large square format: this size gives more breath to the subject and greater contrast between the diverted masterpiece and the “alphabet series”. www.sophieledain.com