Caroline Chariot-Dayez

Caroline Chariot-Dayez (b. Brussels, 11 September 1958) is a Belgian hyperrealistic painter. Although interested in painting from a very early age, she studied philosophy in order to understand what painting is. She was deeply influenced by the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who wrote extensively on perception, vision, embodiment, and painting. Her life has been an ongoing interaction between philosophy, which she teaches, and pain... more

Caroline Chariot-Dayez (b. Brussels, 11 September 1958) is a Belgian hyperrealistic painter. Although interested in painting from a very early age, she studied philosophy in order to understand what painting is. She was deeply influenced by the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who wrote extensively on perception, vision, embodiment, and painting. Her life has been an ongoing interaction between philosophy, which she teaches, and painting. Until the age of forty, she was reluctant to show her paintings in public (with the exception of an appearance on the Belgian Broadcasting Corporation programme The Arts at Large in 1995). She lives and works in Brussels. Caroline Chariot-Dayez, Editions Art in Belgium, Lasne, 2005. less