Pierre angulaire
1960
Pierre angulaire
1960
"When you want to express something through colour, there is no freedom of form, because colour has its own requirements of form, that of the colour match. There is no colour outside of the match." (Nemours)
After studying at the academy founded by Cubist painter André Lhote, in the late 1950s Aurelie Nemours adopted the vocabulary of a radical abstraction based on the limited use of geometric shapes: squares and rectangles. Pierre angulaire [Corner Stone], which takes its title from architecture, is characteristic of this period and is part of a series that superimposes successive enlargements of a single rectangle. As it changes size, the shape also changes colour, starting off golden yellow becoming violet before darkening to black.
Domain | Peinture |
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Techniques | Huile sur toile |
Dimensions | 89 x 116 cm |
Acquisition | Don de M. et Mme Michel Seuphor, 1968 |
Inventory no. | AM 4482 P |
Detailed description
Artist |
Aurelie Nemours
(1910, France - 2005, France) |
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Main title | Pierre angulaire |
Creation date | 1960 |
Domain | Peinture |
Techniques | Huile sur toile |
Dimensions | 89 x 116 cm |
Inscriptions | S.D.R.DR. : Nemours 1960 |
Acquisition | Don de M. et Mme Michel Seuphor, 1968 |
Collection area | Arts Plastiques - Moderne |
Inventory no. | AM 4482 P |