Artists Magazine - USA (2019-10)

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ForFrenchartist,illustratorandwriterAlainCorbel,


artis a waytoconnectwithotherculturesandimprove


thelivesofyoungpeoplelivinga continentaway.


byStefanieLaufersweiler

LEFT
This watercolor portrait of
a woman from Caála, Angola,
was featured on the cover of
Ilhas de Fogo (Fire Island),
one of several books on which
Corbel collaborated with writer
and friend Pedro Rosa Mendes,
featuring the people of Western
Africa. Corbel painted the
image on Arches hot-pressed
paper and added colored
pencil markings to the hair.

OPPOSITE
Another watercolor portrait for
Ilhas de Fogo features a farmer
from the surrounding area of
Huambo, the main city of the
central Angolan plateau.

Bridge


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