09.10.2018 Paint tube
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.
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.
And what if painting had been, in its mythical origin, the projection of the shadow of a face on a clear surface?
“This is one of the first Surrealist paintings – a word that didn’t exist when the piece of work was painted.” (Paul Nyzam)
Young girl combing her hair (1894) of Auguste Renoir, by writer and exhibition commissioner Pascal Bonafoux, also a Professor Emeritus of History of Art at University Paris VIII.
“Cy Twombly’s work feeds on historical references, literature and art.” (Etienne Sallon)
The battle of Anghiari, an unfinished fresco from Leonardo Da Vinci, dazed those who saw it until it became invisible.
« There is no line, there is no modelling, there are only contrasts » (Lawrence Gowing)
“These dates, that follow each other in succession, paint a picture of a mysterious artist .” (Paul Nyzam)
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.
Art that is both painting and literature, Twombly’s work would remain hush-hush for a long time.
The water lilies appear secondary to the shimmering water…
For sure these painted bouquets are authentic, bloom by bloom.
“Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective…” – David Hockney
A bright red boat glides gently across a lake fringed by dense jungle…
memento is a magazine based on the logic of harmonics…
This is one of Magritte’s most famous paintings, to be read like an enigmatic comic book in six squares…
Expert in contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam presents Mondrian’s painting of trees.
The tree pulses the slow beat of the world.
One day in 1913 Mr. Marcel Duchamp, a painter, chose to display everyday objects industrially produced as works of art – nothing was ever to be quite the same again.
Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.
In the early sixties, Simon Hantaï, of Hungarian origin, did one of the most innovative artistic gestures of the second half of the 20th century.