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.
07.30.2018 Painting: in the eye of the myth
And what if painting had been, in its mythical origin, the projection of the shadow of a face on a clear surface?
07.02.2018 Target man
“This is one of the first Surrealist paintings – a word that didn’t exist when the piece of work was painted.” (Paul Nyzam)
01.12.2018 Young girl combing her hair
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.
12.22.2017 The antic sky of Cy Twombly
“Cy Twombly’s work feeds on historical references, literature and art.” (Etienne Sallon)
11.17.2017 The vanished fresco
The battle of Anghiari, an unfinished fresco from Leonardo Da Vinci, dazed those who saw it until it became invisible.
10.27.2017 The logic of organised sensations of Cezanne
« There is no line, there is no modelling, there are only contrasts » (Lawrence Gowing)
06.16.2017 On Kawara
“These dates, that follow each other in succession, paint a picture of a mysterious artist .” (Paul Nyzam)
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.
04.21.2017 Cy Twombly
Art that is both painting and literature, Twombly’s work would remain hush-hush for a long time.
04.07.2017 Mirrors of water
The water lilies appear secondary to the shimmering water…
03.31.2017 Floral hoax
For sure these painted bouquets are authentic, bloom by bloom.
03.27.2017 David Hockney’s perspective
“Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective…” – David Hockney
05.20.2016 Peter Doig: peaceful eeriness
A bright red boat glides gently across a lake fringed by dense jungle…
03.24.2016 « The Orange Blind »
memento is a magazine based on the logic of harmonics…
02.15.2016 The treachery of images
This is one of Magritte’s most famous paintings, to be read like an enigmatic comic book in six squares…
12.28.2015 Mondrian’s trees
Expert in contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam presents Mondrian’s painting of trees.
11.12.2015 Silva
The tree pulses the slow beat of the world.
10.15.2015 What is a painting?
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.
10.12.2015 Outrenoir
Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.
07.30.2015 Simon Hantaï
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.