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12.06.2018 Key of tales

satprem-et

« The pain of the Earth is not to be the joy, love and life that cover our Rock of Lies. » (Satprem)

11.23.2018 Mirrors

Joseph Edouard Stevens (1819-1892) - Chiens devant un miroir, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque

Mirrors is a tale from the book Contes des sages de l’Inde (Tales of the Indian wise men) by Martine Quentric-Séguy (© éditions du Seuil).

11.09.2018 What’s a fairytale?

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) - illustration du conte La Chanson des fées

A story that starts with the words « Once upon a time… »

10.26.2018 Oblique Strategies

Brian Eno (début des années soixante-dix)

This card game invented by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt changes the rules of the game…

10.22.2018 The rigorous joker

François Morellet (1926-2016) - 10 lignes au hasard (1975) (© ADAGP François Morellet Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris)

Alone or in a collective, French visual artist François Morellet was always affiliated with the partnership of chance.

10.15.2018 Fragrant drawings

Dessin de Desmond Knox-Leet

diptyque’s vocation was to be a perfumer, but a cunning twist of fate made the swirls of perfume pass through the line of drawing.

10.12.2018 The chance or Mr. Proust

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

The author of In Search of Lost Time awaits for chance to show him, once again, a life that was dead to him.

10.08.2018 The promises of chance

Attracteur étrange de Edward Norton Lorenz (1917-2008) - (©Rogilbert - créé avec Chaoscope)

“Nothing is more glorious than to be able to give rules to things, which, being dependent on chance, seem to know none, and thereby escape human reason” (Christiaan Huygens)

09.24.2018 Chance, what chance?

Bas-reliefs mettant en scène le Farvahar, symbole accompagnant les préceptes essentiels du zoroastrisme, dans l'antique ville de Persépolis en Iran (©CC BY-SAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA)

Chance is only “the accidental meeting of two independent causal series” says mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot.

09.14.2018 Pomander

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano, 1503-1572) - Lucrezia de Medici (portrait présumé, 1560)

This ornamental accessory was worn as a necklace, bracelet or attached to a belt (depending on its size) and wasn’t so much a decorative object but worn to protect the wearer.

09.10.2018 Paint tube

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) - Claude Monet peignant à l’orée d'un bois, en 1885 (peinture produite par Miss Emily Sargent et Mrs Ormond grâce au National Art Collections Fund en 1925), Tate Modern, Londres

Although the paint tube appeared three decades before the official date given for the start of Impressionism, it was given a decisive role in the evolution of pictorial art.

09.07.2018 Serendipity

John Giles Eccardt (1720–1779) - portrait of Horace Walpole (1717-1797) vers 1754, National Portrait Gallery, Londres.

Serendipity induces a heuristic method in which failure means success.

08.31.2018 Bernard Hermann – Paris, km 00

Le photographe et grand voyageur Bernard Hermann dans son appartement parisien

Reporter and great traveller Bernard Hermann decided to create a collection of photographs taken exclusively from his flat in Paris.

08.27.2018 Origin of myths

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) - La chimère (1867), Fogg Art Museum de Cambridge, États-Unis

« The myth gives the finite what is missing in infinity, and what it needs from eternity. » (Lucien Jerphagnon)

08.20.2018 The tribulations of the orange

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) - Plat avec citrons, panier avec oranges et tasse avec rose (~1633), Norton Simon Foundation, Los Angeles

For a very long time in Europe, the orange was was a rare fruit for the well-heeled.

08.17.2018 Ithaka

Ulysse et Tirésias (détail sur un vase cratère, (440-390 av. J.C.), conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them unless you bring…

08.13.2018 Gift giving

Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather (1972)

“The beautiful gift has three features that make it stand out amongst thousands of others.” (Jean-Claude Kaufmann)

08.10.2018 The iron mask

Gravure de l'époque de la Révolution française

Over 48 names have been suggested for this mysterious prisoner including Louis XIV’s twin brother, or one of his sons with Louise de La Vallière, or an illegitimate son of Charles II of England, or Count Vermandois who slapped the Dauphin… And even such far-fetched theories as him being disgraced Superintendent Fouquet or D’Artagnan! Or even Molière!

08.06.2018 The origins of tragedy and comedy

Intérieur d'une coupe à boire peinte par Makron : Le culte de Dionysos Satyre jouant de l'Aulos en l'honneur de Dionysos Potier : Hieron environ 480 av. J.C. Kylix, coupe à boire attique à figure rouge Terre cuite Vulci (Italie), Altes Museum, Berlin

What was the origin of Greek theatre that turned classical Athens into the place for expressing the art of tragedy and comedy?

08.03.2018 “The Orange blind”

The Orange Blind (1929) by Francis Campbell Cadell (Scottish, 1884-1937)
memento is a magazine based on the logic of harmonics. A theme, a word, a topic and a past memory evoked by diptyque brings the subject matter of an article to life as a result of familiarity, affinity, analogy and resonance. Orange is harmony personified: a fruit, a colour, a taste, a scent, a burst! And a memory… But now as orange spreads its summertime wings in Eau des Sens…

07.30.2018 Painting: in the eye of the myth

Jean-Baptiste Regnault  (1754–1829) - L'Origine de la peinture.

And what if painting had been, in its mythical origin, the projection of the shadow of a face on a clear surface?

07.27.2018 The mask of Tragedy

Figurine en terre cuite d'un masque de théâtre représentant Dionysos, datant du 1er ou 2ème siècle av. J.C. et excavé à Myrina Musée du Louvre (© base Atlas)

The mask worn by the actor addressed each person in the audience individually, it was grimacing warning.

07.20.2018 Green apples and little grey cells

Illustration du détective Hercula Poirot (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mar)

In the Twelve Labours of Hercules, detective Hercule Poirot hopes to round off his career by solving twelve last cases.

07.16.2018 Hesperia, Hesperides

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) - Hercule au jardin des Hespérides

How many Hesperides sisters are there actually? Who is their father? And where’s this garden that they inhabit?

07.13.2018 The comedy of masks

James Ensor (1860-1949) - L'Intrigue (1890), Musée des Beaux Arts d'Anvers, Belgique

A mask uses an image to convey the constrained expression of social hypocrisy.

07.09.2018 Nymphs

Le Bernin (1598-1680) - Apollon et Daphné (1622-1625), Galerie Borghèse, Rome

Our planet Earth, as far as original Nature still covers it, is only the infinite frolicking of nymphs.

06.29.2018 James Turrell : the matter of colour

James Turrell - The light inside.

American artist James Turrell takes light back to being a sensorial experience .

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