What the artists said

We know what artists do.  What do they feel, think, say?  The graphics you see here are famous, but nobody knows about them.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable  –  Banksy

We live in a rainbow of chaos  –  Cezanne

A single day is enough to make us a little larger  –  Klee

It is your duty in life to save your dream  –  Modigliani

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steak  –  Renoir

When a mountain doesn’t listen say a prayer to the sea  –  Twombly

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart  –  Roualt

Every good artist paints what he is  –  Pollock

Creativity takes courage  –  Matisse

The pain passes, but the beauty remains  –  Renoir (responding to Matisse on why he painted in spite of his painful arthritis)

Truth is like fire;  to tell the truth is to glow and burn  –  Klimt

There is more power in telling little than telling all  –  Rothko

Art is like ham  – it nourishes people  –  Riviera

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.  Understand them thoroughly  –  Dali

Art should be like a holiday:  something to give you the opportunity to see things differently and to change your point of view  –  Klee

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble,  to live  –  Rodin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution  –  Duchamp

We grow small trying to be great  –  Hockney

Art is the lie through which we learn the truth  –  Picasso

My wish for you is that you explore yourself and find a marvellous view of life during your life  –  Kusama

(c) Will van der Walt

http://www.willwilltravel.wordpress.com

Les Semboules, Antibes

August, 2019

 

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A passing post on Facebook.  I take it at face value.

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Stéphane Mader, photographer

Second in a series of two

From Stéphane’s images, I thought I’d include some of his earlier shots, those done in colour.  They are as striking, I feel, as his black-and-white work.

I think this most unusual angle for a shot was taken at a station somewhere.  Even in the hurry and flurry of things he achieves a remarkable formality in his images.

This atmospheric shot was taken in Boston.

This potent image too, was taken in Boston.

This painting-like photograph was taken in a medieval church in southern Spain.

The coast off the South of France.

 

(c) Will van der Walt

http://www.willwilltravel.wordpress.com 

Les Semboules, Antibes

August, 2019

 

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Many thanks to Stéphane for permission

Images published by Nouvelle Image, Paris 

I wish I could persuade him to stop smoking, but, wow, he makes good images, as well as a good image himself.

Stéphane Mader, photographer

First in a series of two 

Stéph has again given me permission to place some of his images here.  The images that follow are recent.  Some were taken in South Africa, some in the United States, some in Toulon where he lives.

A pleasing composition, well defined

 

So often he captures an intriguing, fleeting moment.

I think this was taken in Boston.

There is something magical about the moment he has captured here.  Somehow the black and white lends a dream-like quality.

Note the jet stream to the right of the lamp post.

Quirky, minimalist.

(c) Will van der Walt

http://www.willwilltravel.wordpress.com

Les Semboules, Antibes

August, 2019

 

Images

Many thanks to Stéphane for permission.

Images published by Nouvelle Image, Paris

Stéph, enjoying himself at a restaurant at Groot Constantia, Western Cape, South Africa.  My pic.

WIndows of light and colour

Second in a series of two

The stained glass windows at Notre-Dame de la Pinède were a revelation for me – in colour and in style.  The Gaudin windows were expressions of depth and creative daring.  I couldn’t establish from the gentleman in attendance, who had designed the other contemporary stained glass windows.  The Baptistry windows though, were signed, proudly naming the artist’s home town.  A pleasing contrast were the windows that had traditional content and form, though it is likely that they were made in the 20^th-century.

The Baptistry windows had abstract designs, objects of meditation.  The artist was J. Bassinot from Nancy.  I am not sure about it, but I imagine that the motif of the cross is present in each design.

The windows of contemporary design were different from those in the Chapelle de la Rosaire, with no obvious figuration, but inviting the morning light through rich colour.

 

 

The windows of traditional design were of specific people, of events and floral motifs.

 

Apart from the remarkable stained glass, Notre-Dame de la Pinède has unusual depictions of the Stations of the Cross, a relief portrayal of the Last Supper on the altar and a dome of striking simplicity above the nave.

© Will van der Walt

www.willwilltravel.wordpress.com

Les Semboules, Antibes

August, 2019

 

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