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Biography
Daniel Lefèvre is a Belgian artist currently living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. His motto, "Beyond color, there exists another world," is reflected in his black-and-white work. The drawings are created exclusively using Rotring Isograph pens to produce surrealist art inspired by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, and Paul Delvaux.
Daniel Lefèvre is a Belgian artist currently living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. His motto, "Beyond color, there exists another world," is reflected in his black-and-white work. The drawings are created exclusively using Rotring Isograph pens to produce surrealist art inspired by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, and Paul Delvaux.
Artist’s Statement
Traveling around Europe when I was younger I had the opportunity to absorb the culture of many countries and this is reflected in my art. I learned that before starting a portrait, many famous painters first designed their work in black and white. My inspiration comes from artists such as James Ensor, Frans Masereel, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Victor Vasarely and Wassily Kandinsky.
I have always been interested in art and culture since I was a child thanks to the influence of my parents. I also participated in art competitions and won several prizes. Later, at the age of 15, I developed a true passion and total appreciation for art while touring the Frans Masereel museum on a school trip. All the artwork I saw was black and white and very creative. After seeing Masereel's work I went to the library to learn more about black and white art and that's when I discovered the works of Maurits Escher. It was interesting to see how the objects in Escher's work interacted and were put together. I was 16 when I started creating my own designs and developing my technical work based on these styles.
My own work is made with very fine pens and black ink. The idea of using these types of pens came from a course related to architecture and technical development. At first I copied other artists' works until I started making my own pieces and developed a new way of drawing that I had never seen before when I was 18 years old. Over the years I have sold 87 works to collectors around the world and have gone through several artistic phases since then. At first my work was exclusively black and white, but I soon started adding lines that then worked as gray tones; and create depth, texture and contrast. From now on, further deepening and elevating surrealism in my works was inevitable and very experimentally successful.
At the age of 30 I stopped drawing for a while to devote myself to marriage, children and work. Now that my children have grown up, I started drawing again in São Paulo.
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Daniel Lefevre