Here are some testimonials from prestigious personalities about Martine Brand’s work

Jean-Christophe Ammann, Conceptual Art Curator

“Martine, Martine! Thank you!
In a dream I had a nice talk with your Grandmother. She told me that she will put all her energy in your paintings. I said “Martine certainly did it”. “Oh!” she said, “this is just the beginning”.
Thank you for your visit. You are a tremendous beautiful woman. Sensual and so much gifted. Now in a certain way. You have to start a new life. You have to become an artist. Please do works which are going to the centre of intimacy, all your endless secret obsessions! You can do it! And nobody is doing it. You are able to touch people in their deepest feeling, no self censorship. Your fantasy must explode and be sharp like the best knife. Do it Martine! You will be successful and I am with you.”

Ramiz Haddad, Director of UBS BANK Hamburg, Art Basel Sponsor

“Art is Passion, Art moves People, Art can change moods situations. Art can be romantic and nostalgic. Martine’s creative eye captures a special moment with elegance and style. Her sophisticated oil paintings and dedicated fine art sketches gives art a new meaning.”

Dr. Walter Liedtke, Art Curator

“The painting of Alice Herz Sommer in Dolce & Gabbana Cape remind me of the baroque Dutch Golden age painting. Martine Brand’s innovation is a radical naturalism, that combined emotions with physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro and quintessential dutch in character.”

Dr. Walter Liedtke served for 35 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was known as one of the world’s leading scholars of Dutch and Flemish paintings. Renowned scholar of Vermeer and the Delft School.

Rodolphe Oppenheimer
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

“Les peintures d’Alice Sommer ont immédiatement résonné en moi comme une larme de cristal. J’ai visité au fond de mon cœur ce que pouvait être son atelier, lieu privilégié de l’artiste. Immédiatement subjugué par un panaché de toiles, de peinture, de pinceaux, de chiffons, de chevalets qui s’entremêlent, qui s’entrelacent, qui créent l’alchimie, celle d’une toile, celle de son œuvre. On y retrouve l’athanor, la transformation, la fusion de ces outils en un accomplissement de l’art. Les coups de crayon ne sont pas lancés par hasard. Aucun coup de pinceau finissant les traits que l’artiste imagine ne sont donnés avec violence, ils ne sont que la vérité du visuel posé sur la bâche, empreint de la patte de l’artiste, cette dernière travaille avec une authenticité déconcertante. On retrouve un parfum de femme dans cet atelier, nombres de ses toiles représentent des femmes au milieu de couleurs de plus en plus intenses, au fil de la visite l’épanouissement de ces créatures est immense, à chaque coup d’œil des détails supplémentaires se profilent, on peut y ressentir la culpabilité de l’homme à regarder tant en détail ces toiles mais ce n’est en fait, que trouver ces milliers de petites choses si bien reproduites que fait l’artiste, qui font l’artiste. Cherchant toujours à trouver des lumières et des ombres sacrées. On a rapidement des questions, plus vite encore des interrogations. Mais quelle a été l’inspiration de cette fabuleuse artiste pour faire passer le message de l’émotion, de la justesse de ses toiles? Un don c’est évident, un travail ça se sait, mais une incroyable soif de la vie, au travers de ses œuvres accomplies, une mixité d’origines qui mélanges les cultures et renforce les saveurs naturelles, la connaissance d’un art de vivre, d’un art d’aimer, d’un art de peindre. J’ai regardé ces visages en rêvant et une envie de pleurer soudaine vint en moi. J’ai vibré aux éclipses d’une exposition et je rougis d’un tel émoi. Les émotions qui s’en envolent ressemblent à un rêve dans lequel l’artiste les auraient fait pour moi, l’art me pousse au fond de mes retranchements, ceux dans lesquels on mélange vie et folies et où toutes images commencent toujours par « Pourquoi » ? Il y a l’ombre et la chair, la lumière et le tunnel qui mène à travers l’univers de l’artiste, l’univers d’Alice. Les souvenirs du lion roi de la jungle et roi de notre enfance qui reviennent en bribes de souvenirs comme sur un écran de cinéma où chaque couleurs et coup de pinceau sont comme une larme, où le cœur devient une rivière que l’on aimerait partager avec l’artiste, cette rivière pourrait être faite de petit lac de sa jeunesse, de la mienne voilà ou serait né cet océan d’inspiration. Le temps prend des aspects d’étoiles où les années lumières nous trompent sur l’immortalité de la vision.”

Rodolphe Oppenheimer
Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite,
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Massimilliano Subba,Managing Director of Anthea Art investments AG
Member of the Board of Directors of the Contemporary Art Investment Fund SICAV FIS

“ Before I loved her paintings, I loved her illustrations.”

R.M. Rothschild, Collector

“ The darkness of the Caravaggio, the richness of a dutch painter, no one will say Classism is boring. You feel the vibes of Edith Wharton, the sensuality of  Titiaan, the emotions of Rembrandt captured in the modern world. Martine has an unique vision of making you feel. ” 

Cary Woods, Film Producer
Former Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment

“The work of the gifted painter, combining colour, light and shadow, inspires other artists of many stripes. Perhaps most noble among these are fashion designers and film makers, often combined to create works of art and fashion.

It’s undeniable that we’ve seen film effect the culture of style. Those inspirations can be traced directly back to the imaginations of great painters such as Martine Brand.

Martine’s use of colour and light inspires such reflection, and dare I say the work of others. Her art not only brings great beauty into our world but will inspire the work of others to do as well.”

Dr. Werner van den Belt, Art Curator

“The line

God made the earth and nature and gave it shape. The man made the line. The line does not exist in nature, it is a way to make the world around us organized and useful. The line itself can take any form, from short to long, from thick to thin. Great artists dominate the line, whether they create recognizable art or not. They control the selection of it, and the nuances of the yes and the no in this selection. But knowledge disappears. Every guarantee should again make his new line and development. Martine Brand has picked up the gauntlet and knows surefire lines to organize the world, and there to indicate contents.”

Tom Florio
Former Publisher of Vogue USA (for 25 years)

“Some years ago I sat in a room as the newly appointed publisher of Vogue and asked.. What is Vogue? “Vogue is Vogue”, “ Vogue is the (fashion) Bible”, were the replies.

My next question was.. Is Vogue about fashion or is Vogue about apparel? Is it a clothing magazine?

To my mind fashion was popular currently… It was sociological. The iPhone was fashion, Target was fashion. Fashion to me was brands, ideas or people that did not have typical barriers of entry but enjoyed a universal acceptance by both change agents and the masses. As time went on I began to see fashion not only as an expression of culture but sharing a similar intellectual rigor and creative challenge as art… A Balenciaga sleeve, a Polaire waist, a Chanel jacket. Magazines are unique in their ability to present fashion to the masses through the eye of the editor. Steichen, Penn, Avedon, and many others transformed magazines under the reference point and curatorial eye of the editor. Suddenly we can see it…not a trend, but the artistry and thinking that separates clothes from fashion.

In a world of tweets, crowd coursing and product placement, Martine Brand’s Collections Art captures the artistry and cultural blueprint that we find in fashion. 

Her illustrations and paintings put us at the table of the designer and we experience the character of the women for whom they design. The images in Collections by Martine Brand come to life with intimacy and mobility that are the virtues of magazines. 

In “Collections by Martine Brand” we are minded that creativity, not commerce, drives the value proposition in fashion. Martine’s Talent would translate regardless of the platform.”

Bruno Bisang, Fashion Photographer

“ Go for your passion. Your art Martine. Your oil paintings only. You will fly soon.”

Roel van Dalen
Documentary Film Director

“ One of my walls in my study is decorated with three pieces of amazing art. Powerful and confident strokes, mysterious and enigmatic appearance. One is not always capable to comprehend the wondrous world of Martine Brand. Nevertheless I am thrilled these works of art exist and they are so near. Martine’s overwhelming paintings bring us back to the past times, to the Dutch 17th century Golden Age, the runway of the Netherlands as a country, in which explosion of creativity to place. If we ask ourselves questions about the mystery of human creativity, we are actually touching the very essence of art itself: the (augenblick) is the moment of the glance, the mystery of experiencing in the universe. It is the ultimate moment of notion, the moment of truth. Artists like Martine Brand are impressive, because without even knowing it themselves, they cherish the innocence of the first gaze. Why are the heavens so dark during the night? Why does the light flare during daytime? But most of all the (Augenblick) is the announcement of the impossible. And the impossible is exactly what we recognize in the amazing art of Martine Brand. ”

Michel Haddi
Photographer, Film director and Publisher

“Shall we dance? Painting is a dance. Made of strokes, colour, and pattern. If you look carefully in a painting, you will see your eyes wondering from top to bottom, from left to right. We all want to be a part of this dance. Of this staccato of tones, or theses vibrations of different layers. To be fair. This is what touches me of the work of Martine Brand, I want to jump into the paintings and dance with the characters. Don’t you? 

I suppose it’s my approach. But being an artist myself these are my feelings of Martine Brand. Embark yourself to a journey of grace, depth, sometimes sadness and too very erotic, like dance should be. Look again deep into the paintings of Martine. 

You will see this little flame moving your heart, you will feel all the emotions. That means you are now a part of the painting. Your whole soul will be dancing to the end of time.”

Peter Corn,
Songwriter and Performer for Waylo Records Memphis

“You wake up and watch a painting of a naked female you saw blossom on the wall of your bedroom. You drink your coffee knowing that after your life this painting is likely to colour the walls of a museum. You spend your mornings and afternoons witnessing the birth of new paintings. You see the sun go down and she is with you. She is talented. You know. You knew it always.
Now everybody knows.”

Jerry Brandt
Music Manager

“I love to be your manager! 
Lets start to Illustrate the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali, Carly Simon for the cover of my book: “Legendary manager Jerry Brandt”