EAN: 9780857059871

PAINTING TIME - MAYLIS DE KERANGAL KARTONIERT (TB)

Behind the ornate doors of 30  rue du Métal in Brussels  twenty students begin their
apprenticeship in the art of decorative painting - an art of tricksters and counterfeiters 
where each knot in a plank of wood hides a secret and every vein in a slab of marble tells a
story.Among these students are Kate  Jonas and Paula Karst. Together  during a relentless year
of study  they will learn the techniques of reproducing materials in paint  whether animal 
vegetable or mineral  and the intensity of their experience - the long hours in the studio  the
late nights  the conversations  arguments  parties  romances  will cement a friendship that
lasts long after their formal studies end.For Paula  her initiation into the art of trompe
l'oeil will take her back through time  from her own childhood memories  to the ancient
formations of the materials whose depiction she strives to master. And from the institute in
Brussels where her studies begin  to her work on the film sets of Cinecittà  and finally the
caves of Lascaux  her experiences will transcend art  gradually revealing something of her own
inner world  and the secret  unspoken  unreachable desires of her heart.A coming-of-age novel
like no other  an atmospheric  imaginative  highly aesthetic portrayal of love  art and
craftsmanship from the acclaimed author of Birth of a Bridge and Mend the Living.

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