The story is Polina, a girl dreaming of becoming a ballerina, which follows the arduous journey through the hazards and pitfalls forced the world of dance. A gradual evolution nourished sweat and ambition, a lifetime sacrificed to art. Through the course of this girl becoming artist reflects the requirement that requires the search for self in the search for artistic perfection, and that's all the tumult and calm daily which are represented brilliantly.
The virtuoso drawing Vives, a monstrously elegant simplicity, magnifies this artistic adventure. The flexible and perfectly controlled trait, caressing the contours of a slender body, is a sensitivity breathtaking. Graphic delight before this gentle delicacy and harmony. The formal simplicity (without oblique rectangular boxes) coupled to a flattening bichrome (relative neutrality between first and background) confer fluidity clocked at all.
Of this contemporary tale (and former in that it relates the teacher-student relationship and the transmission of knowledge) comes tinged melancholy sweetness of loneliness, feeling the requirement. A feeling exacerbated by the aura somewhat disenchanted heroin. Sadness vague and undefined, unfathomable. The growing involvement with dance she shows is accompanied, from the opening scene, a painfully pleasant emotional detachment. Silence and body movements, faces.
Bastien Vives has captured perfectly the complexity behind the apparent simplicity of the artistic gesture.
"More light, it must seem easy. (...) If you do not show them the grace and lightness, they will see that the effort and difficulty. "
These are the words spoken by the dance teacher to a young Polina grimacing.
The art of drawing, one is tempted to say. At least the one we showed the author. In the manner of a Takehiko Inoue who in his Vagabond series parallels with unparalleled virtuosity the path to the perfection of a young samurai with its own quest for perfection in handling the brush, Bastien Vives suggests ambition .
A star designer.
