Fabienne Verdier and the Flemish Masters. Notes and Notebooks.
Albin Michel| N° d'inventaire | 22190 |
| Format | 13 x 19 |
| Détails | 143 p. color illustrations, paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782226246554 |
Fabienne Verdier works like a Chinese scholar painter, recording in her notebooks maxims and images that help her think about the world. Reading these notebooks allows us to penetrate the making of the work and observe how the artist's pictorial intuitions are born. Page after page, they constitute a fascinating journey into the profound thought that will translate the painter's gestures. Alexandre Vanautgaerden has transcribed the entirety of the texts of these notebooks, which he presents to the reader as a small treatise of meditation on the painting and mysticism of the Flemish Masters. Here, then, is a modern Book of Hours, where Alexandre Vanautgaerden's essay of commentary mixes with thoughts of wisdom from both East and West, poems, quotations from great painters, and facsimiles of the artist's notebooks.
Fabienne Verdier works like a Chinese scholar painter, recording in her notebooks maxims and images that help her think about the world. Reading these notebooks allows us to penetrate the making of the work and observe how the artist's pictorial intuitions are born. Page after page, they constitute a fascinating journey into the profound thought that will translate the painter's gestures. Alexandre Vanautgaerden has transcribed the entirety of the texts of these notebooks, which he presents to the reader as a small treatise of meditation on the painting and mysticism of the Flemish Masters. Here, then, is a modern Book of Hours, where Alexandre Vanautgaerden's essay of commentary mixes with thoughts of wisdom from both East and West, poems, quotations from great painters, and facsimiles of the artist's notebooks.