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06.25.2018 The inferno of colours by Yves Klein

Yves Klein réalisant une peinture de feu.

« My aim is to extract and obtain traces of the immediate in natural objects » (Yves Klein) : flames are an immediate phenomenon that will leave a trace on canvas.

06.22.2018 Blue flower

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) - 10 Foot-Flowers (1967) (©Christie’s images, 2018).

The usual French phrase « blue flower », of a soppy romanticism, is the descendant from the blue flower of the poet Novalis (1772-1801).

06.18.2018 The flamboyance of Douglas Sirk

All that Heaven allows (Wyman)

Douglas Sirk’s flamboyant Fifties melodramas signalled the dawn of a Hollywood genre, where an explosion of colour on screen overloaded the eye.

06.11.2018 The history of the colour blue

Yves Klein - L'accord bleu (RE 010) , 1960 (Pigment pur et résine synthétique, éponges naturelles et cailloux sur panneau), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

This article presents a summary of the profound and scholarly work of historian and expert on colour Michel Pastoureau : Blue, History of a colour.

06.01.2018 Paris roof tops

Michael Wolf - Paris roof tops (©Michael Wolf)

Paris roof tops is the name of a series of photographs made by Michael Wolf, presented on memento with his kind permission.

05.21.2018 Colours of the rising sun

Catalogue de l'exposition "L'expérience de la couleur" du musée national de Céramique de Sèvres (p.129 © tous droits réservés)

Over a thousand years and more, Japanese culture has honed a chromatic sensitivity to infinite gradations.

05.18.2018 Oyédo

oyedo

Eau Oyédo merges two diptyque favourites: Japan and a bright citrus scent.

05.14.2018 It takes three colours to trick two eyes

theorie-de-la-couleur-rvb

By using additive synthesis of these three colours in all possible proportions, one can obtain the whole spectrum of copiable colours.

04.30.2018 Love and Psyche

Antonio Canova (1757-1822) - Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour (1787-1793), Musée du Louvre, Paris.

The perfume Fleur de Peau, with its tone of musk comes with the perfume Tempo (with a tone of patchouli) to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of diptque perfumery which dates back to 1968, when psychedelia was in full swing.

03.12.2018 Scientific horizons in the Sixties

Ivan Sutherland met au point le premier logiciel graphique interactif avec stylo optique pour dessiner sur écran des schémas techniques, en 1963 au MIT.

The sixties also remain familiar to us because our current era is still evolving technically, conceptually and culturally as a result of what began back then.

03.05.2018 The hippie and the liberalism

Hippies (source inconnue)

The limiting experience of an LSD trip desired by the wayward teen and the mystical ecstasy experienced by the devout as a result of faith and fasting were readily believed to be of the same nature.

02.23.2018 The fold

Madame Grès - Robe du soir (photographie mma, neg #124256 / scanned and retouched by film and media)

The fold is both the act of divison and a border of reunion.

02.19.2018 The Luddites

Luddisme (illustration)

By breaking the looms to defend noble and well-made work, the Luddites protected their jobs, their skills, their status as well as attacking the control that the mechanisation of labour engendered on their gestures, bodies, rhythms and the links between them, splitting them by dividing their work, on everything that constituted them as a collective body.

02.12.2018 Le Gray, the Egyptian

Gustave Le Gray (1813-1884) - Tombeaux des Califes et types, 1862, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie

There is some mystery surrounding the circumstances that seem to have led Le Gray towards the port of Alexandria…

02.05.2018 Indian cottons

Indienne, Musée du textile de Wesserling, Alsace (source Wikipédia)

The word indiennes refers to cotton fabric, usually thin and lightweight with bright cheerful prints.

02.02.2018 Jean-Baptiste Huet

Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811) - scène champêtre

Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811) was an artist. He excelled at painting animals and nature. His name has gone down in history for the motifs he painted for the Oberkampf factory textiles called toiles de Jouy.

01.29.2018 Turkish Delight

Turkish Delight (1973) de Paul Verhoeven

With the Rose Delight fragrance blending rose and louloum, associations of ideas spread like a sugar trail: Turkish Delight (Loukoum) is the title of a 1973 film by Paul Verhoeven.

01.22.2018 A rose

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886), daguerréotype de 1846-47 (Amherst College).

A poem from American poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

01.19.2018 Rahat loukoum (Turkish delight)

Les loukoums de la Maison Hacı Bekir d'Istambul.

Popular tradition has associated loukoum with lovers.

01.15.2018 Orientalism

Eugène FROMENTIN (1820 - 1876) - Une rue à El-Aghouat. (© Photo RMN-Grand Palais - Droits réservés)

The illustration of Rose Delight, blending the toile de Jouy with oriental images, leads memento to address the theme of “orientalism”…

01.05.2018 Mystical Turkish delight

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - L'Adoration des mages (504), Musée des Offices, Florence.

ould an innocent pistachio loukoum (Turkish delight) conceal the gateway to Divinity?

12.29.2017 Orion

Plusieurs nébuleuses dans Orion, M42, Tête de Cheval et la Flamme.

The constellation of Orion rounds off memento’s starry cycle and reveals the luminous nebulae of blessings that we wish to shower upon you all for the coming new year!

12.15.2017 Constellations

Constellation du Taureau (photographie © Akira Fujii)

A constellation groups together all the stars that are within the perimeters more or less delimited by its symbolic asterism.

11.17.2017 The vanished fresco

Léonard de Vinci (1452-1519) - Tête d'un guerrier ('le chef rouge ') - étude pour la bataille d'Anghiari, 1504-5, Musée des arts fins, Budapest

The battle of Anghiari, an unfinished fresco from Leonardo Da Vinci, dazed those who saw it until it became invisible.

11.13.2017 The Unicorn of stars

Philippe Baudelocque - Licorne

The Unicorn constellation…

11.06.2017 The first of Ovid’s metamorphoses

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) - Chute de Phaéton. Projet de plafond (Paris, musée d'Orsay, conservé au musée du Louvre)

« Hidden for eons under the mass that squashed them suddenly begin to swarm in the night skies » (Ovid)

11.03.2017 The passion of heaven…

Solargraphie de Quentin Lacombe (courteously)

The passion of heaven, a poem of Agrippa d’Aubigné (1552-1630) opens the theme of the constellations on memento.

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