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Her
deep love of nature explains why animals and often insects, occur in many
of her paintings, sometimes as a way of catching the eye, sometimes as an
enigmatic detail. We often see strange worlds in the paintings-such as frogs
presented as observers-with lifelike animals in unreal scenery. Sometimes
the spectator\'s eye is deceived by a masterly trompe-l\'oeil. Some pictures
are constructed to include their environment in unexpected ways, for example,
the picture involving a shirt and a clothes hanger. Due to the pinpoint-sharp
detail of the painting, combined with its ingenuity, its originality and
the whimsical nature of the imagination, the artwork of Arlette Steenmans
is highly distinctive.
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