06.29.2018 James Turrell : the matter of colour
American artist James Turrell takes light back to being a sensorial experience .
06.25.2018 The inferno of colours by Yves Klein
« 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
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
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
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
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 : 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
“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
« the colour of sound – its timbre – is the vast territory of music » (Arnold Schoenberg)
05.21.2018 Colours of the rising sun
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
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
Artists-designers Carnovsky have joined diptyque for the animation of the Garden of the Hesperides.
06.19.2017 Goethe in full colour
The universal poet with an immeasurable knowledge bank devoted twenty years to the study of colours.
05.22.2017 Josef Albers’ colours
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.