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The Secret Language of Flowers – ENGLISCH

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Louvre pyramid, Jean-Michel Othoniel was invited to create a work relating the importance of flowers in the Museums eight art departments.

Beschreibung

Seitenanzahl: 208 Seiten

Masse: 13,6 x 21,8 x 1,9cm

Verlag: Actes Sud

Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2019

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN-Nummer: 978-2-330-12016-0

Klappentext

A follow-up to The Secret Language of Flowers: Notes on the Hidden Meanings of Flowers in Art.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Louvre pyramid, Jean-Michel Othoniel was invited to create a work relating the importance of flowers in the Museum s eight art departments. The artist photographed the floral wealth concealed in the masterpieces of the Museum s painting, drawing, sculpture, embroidery and enamel collections. Using this, Othoniel composes his own original herbarium, accompanied with notes on the secret language of flowers and their symbolism in the history of art.

Among the seventy details of flowers, you will find the thistle in Dürer s selfportrait, the poppy in the Paros funerary stele, the apple sitting on a stool in The Lock by Fragonard, or the peony attached to the unfastened blouse of the young woman in Greuze s Broken Pitcher. The work also introduces us to lesser-known details in works, offering a magnificent treasure hunt for visitors of the museum.

Amid this vast prairie spangled with symbolic flowers, the artist asks this question: If there could be only one, which would be the Louvre s flower? A question to which the artist himself offers his own response.

Zum Autor

Jean-Michel Othoniel lives and works in Paris. From drawing to sculpture, installation to photography and writing to performance, he has invented a world with multiple contours. Early in his artistic career he explored materials with reversible qualities, such as sulfur and wax, before moving onto glass in 1993. Today his works have an architectural dimension and are frequently commissioned for exhibition in public or private gardens around the world.
 

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