Bernard Perroud

Umberto Eco

2012-01-30T21:18:00.002-06:00

L'oeuvre d'art contemporaine est un message fondamentalement ambigu, une pluralité de signifiés qui coexistent en un seul signifiant... On verra comment cette ambiguïté devient aujourd'hui une fin explicite de l'oeuvre, une valeur a réaliser de préférence a toute autre, et parfois, comme dans l'oeuvre de Joyce, jusqu'en ses limites extrêmes.

The contemporary work of art is fundamentally an ambiguous message, a plurality of meanings that coexist in a single signifier ... We'll see how this ambiguity is now becoming an explicit aim of the work, a value to be prefered to any other, and sometimes, as in Joyce's work, pushed to its extreme limits.

Umberto Eco, Opera Aperta, 1962

Slippery slope 2

2012-01-30T20:15:00.001-06:00

Slippery slope

2012-01-30T19:41:00.002-06:00

Yoni Gate Fountain

2012-01-30T17:48:00.003-06:00

A fountain in which the water curtain will be seen from both sides.

Josep Maria Subiracs

2012-01-30T12:00:00.003-06:00

Josep Maria Subiracs. Quatre coups de compas. 1971
Encre. 68 x 50 cm
Thanks to Erotyczny Pasjans

Yoni Gate

2012-01-30T11:51:00.002-06:00

Two quickies.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard 5

2012-01-29T16:37:00.003-06:00

Jean-Honoré Fragonard. La Chemise enlevée / The removed shirt. c. 1770.
Oil on canvas, 35 x 42 cm. Louvre, Paris

1, 2, 3, 4.Via Erotyczny Pasjans

Reaction

2012-01-29T16:32:00.003-06:00

Reaction to the excitement of the glimpse into Tantra Song (See post before this one).
Just ordered it too bad it's out of print and I'll have to wait a while.
30 cmx 30 cm on prepared plywood.

From Tantra Song

2012-01-29T11:46:00.003-06:00

The eternal and frenetic race of the feminine principle towards its masculine counterpart. Shakti pursuing Shiva. Motion seeking stillness. The triangle of the Goddess is not presented with point downward, as tradition normally dictates, but in full agitation. In time, the triangle should come to actually tremble, vibrate, hover about its lover, its magnet.
Image and text from Tantra Song by Franck André Jamme, published by Siglio Press, forthcoming October, 2011.
Found this great thread thanks to Le Divan Fumoir Bohemien

Winged creature

2012-01-29T09:44:00.003-06:00

2 Cones 3

2012-01-28T21:33:00.003-06:00

2 Cones 2

2012-01-28T18:54:00.001-06:00

2 Cones

2012-01-28T16:38:00.003-06:00

Sketching an idea.

BlockedOut2.4

2012-01-28T14:18:00.000-06:00

Blocked Out # 2.2

2012-01-27T19:45:00.001-06:00

1 st. papering. Do I like the proportions? Don't know it yet.

Blocked Out # 2.1

2012-01-26T20:55:00.003-06:00

A new version of blocked out that I made in Nice and was not so satisfied with. I have to refine the shape some more.

Lion Grigoryevich Soloviev

2012-01-26T12:27:00.003-06:00

Lion Grigoryevich Soloviev (1836-1919)
Monks. 1870.
Oil painting. Museum of Art, Sumy, Russia

Max Klinger 5

2012-01-26T11:49:00.003-06:00

Max Klinger, The Isle of the Dead. 1890 (after Arnold Böcklin)
Etching and aquatint in black ink on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wove plate paper (chine collé) 676 x 874 mm (sheet).
Via Dark Classics. See Böcklin originals here and here.

François Boucher 4

2012-01-26T09:50:00.003-06:00

François Boucher (1703-70). Venus Playing With Two Doves
28,80 x 44,00 cm. Black chalk, sanguine, pastel on blue-gray paper.
Private collection. Via Erotyczny Pasjans

Praça do Comércio, Lisboa.

2012-01-25T21:14:00.003-06:00

Waves organ, Via flores en el àtico

Murmuration

2012-01-25T19:04:00.001-06:00

A murmuration of starlings.

Thomas Ruff

2012-01-25T13:31:00.003-06:00

Thomas Ruff. Nudes kü 12

Original of Nudes kü 12
Via

Hotesse de l'air

2012-01-25T12:55:00.002-06:00

Flight attendant scratching?
Pulling the back of her blouse down?
Is it enacted? Via FracaStyle

Moebius 2

2012-01-25T09:18:00.002-06:00

Moebius. Via Quenched Consciousness

O.T. 1o.2o 6

2012-01-23T12:03:00.002-06:00

Back on that theme in a rather desertic inspiration period.
The body as a series of hinges.

Moebius

2012-01-22T07:03:00.004-06:00

Moebius. Imaginary Water Landscape. Via butdoesitfloat

Anton Marrast

2012-01-21T10:53:00.003-06:00

Anton Marrast. My Simple Figures: The Triangle

Moving dress

2012-01-20T13:17:00.001-06:00

Ludwig Wittgenstein

2012-01-20T08:35:00.002-06:00

On the flight Nice/Heathrow I found Wittgenstein writing about himself:

"Je pense en fait avec la plume. Car ma tête bien souvent ne sait rien de ce que ma main ecrit."

(In fact I think with my pen. Because, often enough, my mind doesn't know anything about what my hand writes.)

"On pourrait dire: " Le génie, c'est le courage dans le talent."

(One could say: "Genius is courage in the talent.)

Irene Bisang

2012-01-20T08:31:00.003-06:00

Irene Bisang. Triangle. 2010.
Water colour on paper. ca. 14,5x21 cm.

Smoke in the distance

2012-01-19T12:15:00.002-06:00

There, look! Probably human life!

Back in the U.S.A.

2012-01-17T05:53:00.001-06:00

After 9 months in Europe I'm flying back to the USA.

Karl Bryullov

2012-01-14T10:54:00.003-06:00

Karl Bryullov. (1799-1852) Silen, Satyr and Bacchanals.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Ernesto Bertani

2012-01-14T09:38:00.002-06:00

Ernesto Bertani. 62 Lunares dorados

Felicien Rops 2

2012-01-14T08:52:00.002-06:00

Felicien Rops. Passé minuit (le retour fait aimer l'absence)
Nach Mitternacht (erst die Rückkehr läßt einen die Abwesenheit schätzen)
22 × 15 cm (8.7 × 5.9 in). Pencil, pastel, watercolor.

Herbert Dombrowski

2012-01-14T08:02:00.002-06:00

Herbert Dombrowski: Der Kuss, 1956
Gelatin Silver Print, 31 x 46 cm

Eve Arnold

2012-01-14T06:27:00.002-06:00

Eve Arnold. Peasant farmer (in China)
Wonderful glasses design!
Via Couleurs

In 'n Out 15.6

2012-01-11T04:20:00.001-06:00

I feel so undecided about this dress!

Grey

2012-01-11T02:01:00.003-06:00

Spent part of the night, obsessively, on this...
Meaning, no meaning. Hooks!

The Atlanta Naked People

2012-01-06T12:45:00.003-06:00

The Atlanta Naked people in Freedom Park.
Interesting initiative!

Groborne

2012-01-04T08:35:00.003-06:00

Robert Groborne. Projets pour une sculpture 1980-1981
N°06480 I (4 Mars 1980) 57 x 77

N°02880 I (28 Janvier 1980) 57 x 77

Model For Dress 3D.3

2012-01-04T08:29:00.003-06:00

Worked a little more on it today.

Indian shadow puppets

2012-01-03T09:15:00.006-06:00

Shadow puppet from Andhra Pradesh
Hide (goat), Pigment,Bamboo, Metal, String
American Museum of Natural History. Catalog No: 70.2/ 5919

Radio...

2012-01-01T14:03:00.001-06:00

Heard today on the radio:
L'angoisse immobilise, l'inquiétude est motrice, elle fait créer.
Which could be translated in this way:
Anxiety (panic) immobilizes, uneasiness drives (motivates), it makes one create.
I find it very true and illuminating on the subject of what drives artistic creation.

Model For Dress 3D.2

2012-01-01T12:50:00.001-06:00

Worked some more on it.

Model For Dress 3D

2011-12-31T09:05:00.002-06:00

Just started this piece in order to better explore the dress that I have been working on lately.

Alberto Giacometti's hidden leg.

2011-12-24T11:37:00.004-06:00

I was curious to find out how this sculpture on that shrewd photo, that I posted this morning, seemed to rest on two points only.
This video from the National Galleries of Scotland gives us enough views to reveal the third leg of this piece.

Alberto Giacometti,

2011-12-24T02:04:00.005-06:00

Alberto Giacometti, Objet désagréable à jeter (Disagreeable Object to be Thrown away) Wood: 19.60 x 31.00 x 29.00 cm. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
1 2 3 Via Artdaily.org

Couples

2011-12-23T14:23:00.003-06:00

Yoni 4rt6

2011-12-23T13:09:00.001-06:00

Initiation

2011-12-23T02:55:00.003-06:00

A magical moment at the beginning of life.
Via eduNaraS

The Black Keys

2011-12-22T11:14:00.006-06:00

The Black Keys. Lonely Boy, simple but effective guitar gets you simply to move .

2011-12-22T11:14:00.001-06:00

http://youtu.be/a_426RiwST8?hd=1

In 'n Out 15.5

2011-12-22T09:11:00.002-06:00

Can't find the most adequate technique for this idea. Looking...

Cesar Manrique

2011-12-22T06:11:00.003-06:00

Cesar Manrique. Jameos del agua.
Pool in a volcanic cavity. Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
"Jameos" are volcanic tubes that collapsed , leaving openings.
"Jameo" means "cave", "bubble" .

In 'n Out 15.4

2011-12-21T11:56:00.002-06:00

Tackling the idea with minor changes again, after a little break (trip to Germany)

Talonabraxas

2011-12-20T12:10:00.002-06:00

Talonabraxas. Yoni

Sarah Trouche

2011-12-20T06:55:00.003-06:00

Sarah Trouche. Legs UP. Paris, France. 2003.
Photography mounted on aluminium (60 x 45 cm) (30 x 23 cm)

The role of jewelry

2011-12-20T06:13:00.002-06:00

Via Old Erotic Art

Sol LeWitt

2011-12-19T11:54:00.007-06:00

Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007). Muybridge I, 1964. Painted wood, photographs, and flashing lights 24.13 x 243.84 x 26.67 cm (9 1/2 x 96 x 10 1/2 in.). LeWitt Collection, Chester, CT. (C) Artists Rights Society (ARS). Via artattler.

Muybridge II. 1964 Painted wood, photographs, and flashing lights.
9 1/2 in. x 96 in. x 10 1/2 in. (24.13 cm x 243.84 cm x 26.67 cm). Collection SFMOMA

James Lee Byars 3

2011-12-19T11:11:00.003-06:00

James Lee Byars. La figura de la pregunta, 1986. El libro esférico, 1986. El cubo blando, 1986. Mármol de Kavala, madera de roble y cristal. Colección MACBA. Fundació Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona. More in this blog 1, 2.

Padding

2011-12-17T02:32:00.002-06:00

Where the Seine river springs

2011-12-14T11:17:00.008-06:00

A few days ago I drove to the spring of the Seine river.

There is a small park around the fake grotto built above the spring.

The city of Paris owned the area adjacent to the sources of the Seine since 1864. The site includes the remains of the Gallo-Roman sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Sequana (hence the name of the Seine). Thousands of objects have been discovered on this archaeological site. All furniture, stelae, sculptures and a collection of 300 ex-votos are visible in the archaeological museum of Dijon. I tried to visit it but it was Monday, the day in the week in which the museum is closed!

The excavations discovered that the sacred spring was channeled and that two basins were constructed for the ablutions of the pilgrims who came to the shrine to lay their votive offerings. More about it in the Wikipedia (in French).

During the reign of Napoleon III
Emperor of the French
The City Council of Paris,
in conjunction with the General Council of the Seine,
at the proposal of
Baron Haussmann, Senator, Prefect of the Department of the Seine,
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour,
by the decision of 28 August MDCCCLXV (1845)
erected this monument to the sources of the river
which gave its name to the Department of the Seine
and to which Paris owes its ancient prosperity.
MDCCCLXVII (1847)

Grain of sand of Afghani history

2011-12-10T05:48:00.004-06:00

Her eyes are amazing!

Bactrian Aphrodite brooch, from the grave of the princess, c. 100 AD, Gold artifacts from Tillya Tepe find, six tombs of Bactrian nomads; Discovered in 1978 by Soviet archaeologist; Thought lost but discovered in 2003 in Afghan National Bank Vault, at the Presidential Palace; saved from the Mujahadein and Taliban; Elements of Greek, Indian, Asian culture. Photo and text from Kenneth Garrett's website

Look at her face!

This sculpture of a water goddess standing atop a makara—a mythical Hindu water creature—was found at the Begram archaeological site in northern Afghanistan. From Everything Afghanistan. See also about Begram.

Blocked out body

2011-12-10T04:48:00.005-06:00

We need a real change

2011-12-10T01:04:00.003-06:00

Dan Tague folded and photographed it.

Blocked 3

2011-12-08T09:10:00.003-06:00

Blocked out body

2011-12-08T08:29:00.002-06:00

Blocking the body

2011-12-08T07:14:00.001-06:00

Dress from In 'N Out 03

2011-12-07T06:11:00.001-06:00

Piece

2011-12-07T03:06:00.002-06:00

Erected Nipples

2011-12-06T14:03:00.002-06:00

Jerry Uelsmann

2011-12-06T11:41:00.003-06:00

Jerry Uelsmann. Ritual Ground. 1964
@ Yale
It looks to me like a montage, but I would like to know more about the subject(s).

Hip Curve

2011-12-06T07:43:00.004-06:00

Details of the body fascinate me because of the image associations and analogies that they provocate on multiple levels: feelings, architecture, design, etc.

Let's have fun, doesn't it makes one think of an early Porsche?

2 S

2011-12-05T11:05:00.003-06:00

Parallel attitudes.

Brancusi

2011-12-05T09:01:00.002-06:00

Constantin Brancusi. Profil de femme : Etude de fresque.

1923. Ciment, filasse, stuc, vernis. 40,5 x 30,8 cm.

Dress from In 'N Out 02

2011-12-05T07:41:00.005-06:00

While working on this piece (Dress from In 'N Out) other forms come to my mind: among others some computer speakers, the way Brancusi cuts some of his sculptures:

Brancusi: Torso of a Young Girl, 1922.

Renzo Piano. The Cultural Centre of Tjibaou, Noumea,  New Caledonia.

Dominique Perrault

2011-12-05T01:46:00.002-06:00

"Emptiness can give rise to that which is, whereas it itself is not."

"Le vide permet de faire naitre ce qui est, alors que lui n'est pas."

Dominique Perrault about his project . EWHA woman's university. Seoul, Korea. (2004-2008)

Dress from In'N Out 01

2011-12-04T02:19:00.001-06:00

Dress from In'N Out

2011-12-02T10:52:00.001-06:00

Not sure yet but had to be able to see it in 3D. Difficult birth!

Trisha Donnelly

2011-12-01T12:59:00.002-06:00

Trisha Donnelly, Untitled, 2010.
Rose of Portugal marble, 55.4 x 88.9 x 48.3 cm
Refined simplicity... Via Arttattler

More Jean-Honoré Fragonard

2011-11-28T05:01:00.008-06:00

From the British Museum website

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

2011-11-28T04:49:00.004-06:00

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806).
Bacchanal: The Satyr's Family, 1763
Etching. 5 1/4 x 8 3/8 in. (13.4 x 21.3 cm). 2, 3.

Young Woman

2011-11-26T13:40:00.001-06:00

Legs Up retrospective

2011-11-26T09:29:00.001-06:00

J.N.L. Durand

2011-11-25T01:58:00.002-06:00

J.N.L. Durand, Porches, 1802. Via Archive of Affinities
A game that could go much further in the exploration of possible combinations.

Model for dress

2011-11-24T11:24:00.002-06:00

Tathāgatas

2011-11-24T04:19:00.004-06:00

Experiences in mystical light.

In 'n Out 15.5

2011-11-23T14:44:00.001-06:00

Maybe.

In 'n Out 15.4

2011-11-23T09:51:00.002-06:00

Well...

In 'n Out 15.3

2011-11-23T08:59:00.002-06:00

Still searching.

Suspended

2011-11-23T05:49:00.002-06:00

Thanks to NudeState

Addenda

2011-11-22T13:38:00.001-06:00

Just added some information to the post Do you like speed?

In 'n Out 15.2

2011-11-22T11:34:00.002-06:00

Not getting where I want!

In 'n Out 15

2011-11-21T09:17:00.007-06:00

In 'n Out haunts me again.

Hers and His legs

2011-11-19T09:57:00.003-06:00

Musing back on the legs theme.

Courbes tendues

2011-11-19T08:09:00.002-06:00

Taut Curves.

"Astarteïc"

2011-11-17T09:48:00.001-06:00

Rain Hermaïc

2011-11-16T14:04:00.003-06:00

An Hermaic stone to gather (or/and give) rain water.

Tribhanga section # 2

2011-11-16T07:45:00.001-06:00

Tribhanga section # 2