X. ‘une sorte d’argot visuel’

“…endowed with a constantly creative imagination. ‘They transpose reality.’ What then do modern poets, artists, and painters do? They do the same thing. Our pictures are our slang; we transpose objects, forms, and colors. Then why don’t we meet each other?”

– Fernand Leger: ‘The Human Body considered as an Object’, Montreal (1945)

[in progress]

16.01.2020

PDF: Early Flemish Painting | Notes

01.03.2020

PDF: van der Weyden | Leger

20.07.2020

PDF: Jean Lurçat et al

Leger / defense of vernacular culture and argot, “the most beautiful and liveliest poetry that exists” / [Valentine Hugo] “I want to advance the destruction of an intolerable order of things and the triumph of its opposite” / as the proper “basis of a new reality that is forever yet becoming”

22.07.2020