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Jean Lurçat

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Monograph

Structure type:
Monograph
Title:
Jean Lurçat
Subtitle:
Tapestries
17.7. au 16.8.1970
Author:
Laurent, Pierre
Guillemin, Henri
Publication year:
1969
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Place of publication:
[s.l.]
Measurements:
[30] p.
Description:
Art moderne et contemporain

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[Citation]

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  • Jean Lurçat
  • [Jean Lurçat]
  • [Citation]
  • [Jean Lurçat travaillant]
  • [Citation]
  • Sonata
  • Firebrand
  • Lunar Things
  • Porto Alegre
  • Blue of Blue
  • Plant World
  • Bright Hours
  • The Fisherman
  • Shrine of St. Denis
  • To Know
  • Midnight
  • Blue Flames
  • The Green Dog
  • Zapata
  • The Great Neptune
  • The two Muses
  • Wine and grey tobacco
  • Parade-Horse
  • All ablaze
  • The four elements
  • The Great Tropics
  • Man and Plant life
  • List of works presented - Lurçat Tapestries
  • Biography of Jean Lurçat
  • Biographie de Jean Lurçat

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A painting, a tapestry, a sculpture is something more than colours and 
shapes assembled in a certain order. All my life I considered a painting 
a tapestry, in fact the art, as a means of communication with people, 
with our fellow-men, it is a way of exchanging feelings and ideas. 
Art is a language, att is the opposite of a gluttony, of a delicacy, of a 
free game. 
Excerpt from the speech delivered in 1960 by Jean Lur gat at tbe opening of bis 
exhibition at the Wallraf Richariz Museum in Cologne. 
Un tableau, une tapisserie, une sculpture, c’est quelque chose de plus 
que des couleurs et des formes en un certain ordre assemblées. 
J'estime, j'ai estimé toute ma vie, qu'un tableau, qu'une tapisserie, 
l'art en un mot, c'est une facon de prendre contact avec des humains, 
prendre contact avec nos semblables, c'est une facon d'échanger des 
sentiments, des idées. L'art c'est donc un langage, l'art c'est le 
contraire d’une gourmandise, d’une délicatesse, d’un jeu gratuit. 
Extrait de l’allocution prononcée par Jean Lur gat, à l'inauguration de son 
exposition au Wallraf. Richariz Museum de Cologne en 1960.
	        

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