Black suns.
Lienart| N° d'inventaire | 23925 |
| Format | 23 x 29 |
| Détails | 384 pages, 220 illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359063110 |
The color of paradox, is black an absence of light, a void, or a joyful sum of all colors, a dazzling effect?
Black Suns immerses the reader in a fascinating exploration of this tone with its multiple symbolism in Western art, from antiquity to the present day. This immersion begins with a familiar experience of black, thanks to artistic representations of themes omnipresent in art history, such as the night and its black sky.
If plunging into darkness is a physiological experience known to everyone, the color black forms a structuring but ambiguous element in the representation of the sacred, at once the color of all beginnings, of infinity, of timelessness, but also that of death and ignorance. There is in this ambiguity as much fear as fascination, both ferments of the melancholic feeling, dear to artists to sublimate in their creations the beauty and sensuality of black.
A codified color in life and fashion, black constitutes in the portraits of modern Europe a social luxury, a mark of elegance or the marker of a function, as much as a pleasure for the painter. Black thus becomes the emblematic color of industrial and aesthetic modernity. It liberates itself to the point of becoming a plastic substance constantly questioned, as evidenced by Pierre Soulages' Outrenoir .
Collective work under the direction of Marie Lavandier, Director, Louvre-Lens Museum, Juliette Guépratte, Director of Strategy, Louvre-Lens Museum, Luc Piralla-Heng Vong, Deputy Director, Louvre-Lens Museum.
With contributions from Vincent Pomarède, Sébastien Allard, Olivier Bonfait, Valérie Sueur-Hermel and Alain Fleischer.
The color of paradox, is black an absence of light, a void, or a joyful sum of all colors, a dazzling effect?
Black Suns immerses the reader in a fascinating exploration of this tone with its multiple symbolism in Western art, from antiquity to the present day. This immersion begins with a familiar experience of black, thanks to artistic representations of themes omnipresent in art history, such as the night and its black sky.
If plunging into darkness is a physiological experience known to everyone, the color black forms a structuring but ambiguous element in the representation of the sacred, at once the color of all beginnings, of infinity, of timelessness, but also that of death and ignorance. There is in this ambiguity as much fear as fascination, both ferments of the melancholic feeling, dear to artists to sublimate in their creations the beauty and sensuality of black.
A codified color in life and fashion, black constitutes in the portraits of modern Europe a social luxury, a mark of elegance or the marker of a function, as much as a pleasure for the painter. Black thus becomes the emblematic color of industrial and aesthetic modernity. It liberates itself to the point of becoming a plastic substance constantly questioned, as evidenced by Pierre Soulages' Outrenoir .
Collective work under the direction of Marie Lavandier, Director, Louvre-Lens Museum, Juliette Guépratte, Director of Strategy, Louvre-Lens Museum, Luc Piralla-Heng Vong, Deputy Director, Louvre-Lens Museum.
With contributions from Vincent Pomarède, Sébastien Allard, Olivier Bonfait, Valérie Sueur-Hermel and Alain Fleischer.