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08.03.2018 “The Orange blind”

The Orange Blind (1929) by Francis Campbell Cadell (Scottish, 1884-1937)
Along the way 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…

06.29.2018 James Turrell : the matter of colour

James Turrell - The light inside.
Along the way

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

06.25.2018 The inferno of colours by Yves Klein

Yves Klein réalisant une peinture de feu.
Along the way

« 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).
Along the way

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)
Along the way

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

06.15.2018 View of Delft

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) - Gezicht op Delft (Vue de Delft, 1659-1660), Musée Mauritshuis, La Haye
Crossed paths

French Writer and art historian Pascal Bonafoux, author of a monography about painter Johannes Vermeer, offers memento his analysis of a famous passage from ‘In Search of Lost Time’ of Marcel Proust.

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
Along the way

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

06.08.2018 Daniel Boudinet : le temps de la couleur

Daniel Boudinet - Réverbère et éclairage nocturne (Ministère de la Culture / Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine / Dist. RMN-GP © Donation Daniel Boudinet)
Crossed paths

Daniel Boudinet : le temps de la couleur. This exhibition of photography will run from 16th June to 10th October 2018 at Jeu de Paume museum in Paris.

05.28.2018 Alfredo Pirri’s colour-landscape

Alfredo Pirri, Arie, 2014, 100 x 100 cm, émaux acryliques sur plumes et plexiglas coloré, photographe Giorgio Benni. 
(courtesy Alfredo Pirri)
Crossed paths

“The landscape of colour is the desire of painting to extend into space by the process of reverberation.” (Soko Phay)

05.25.2018 Listening in colour

Arnold Schönberg - Der rote Blick (1910) (probablement un autoportrait du compositeur)
Crossed paths

« the colour of sound – its timbre – is the vast territory of music » (Arnold Schoenberg)

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)
Along the way

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

05.14.2018 It takes three colours to trick two eyes

theorie-de-la-couleur-rvb
Along the way

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

05.11.2018 diptyque questionnaire: the Carnovsky

Carnovsky - Le jardin des Hespérides de diptyque
Crossed paths

Artists-designers Carnovsky have joined diptyque for the animation of the Garden of the Hesperides.

06.19.2017 Goethe in full colour

Aquarelle de la propre main de Goethe (1808), au Goethemuseum, Hochstift.
Along the way

The universal poet with an immeasurable knowledge bank devoted twenty years to the study of colours.

05.22.2017 Josef Albers’ colours

Josef Albers (1888-1976) - Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken (1969), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Along the way

German-born Josef Albers, professeur at the Bauhaus, a visual arts educator and the author of a theory of colours, had a great impact on post war contemporary American art.

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