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Jean-Paul Riopelle at his studio in Saint-Cyren-Arthies, photograph by Jacqueline Hyde (1977) |
The Charcoals from 1976: Back to Drawing In the mid-1970s, after the polychrome seduction of his experience with pastel, Riopelle yielded to the temptation of charcoal’s black-and-white austerity, a discipline that allowed him to establish a distance from the ‘real world’, to make more analytical reading of it, lingering over the structures of space. The 1976 charcoals are a looser group, and somewhat wild (in the best sense of the world). They also offer the freshness of quick sketches, studies of landscape details, variations on polysemic motifs. Riopelle, Mémoires d’ateliers, |
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JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE Mémoires d’ateliers catalogue New bilingual exhibition catalogue with text by Yseult Riopelle and Gilles Daigneault available |
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