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 To Honor The Art Of Research And Black And White, We Have Chosen This Painting By Louis Mendrisse Which Powerfully Evokes The Goal Of A Contemporary Artist. It Highlights The Painter's Unfailing View Of Today's World.

“Ballade In The Corner Of A Chair : This Is The Humorous Title That We Are Submitting To You For Review. Your Thoughts.

From A Technical Point Of View, In An Apparent Instability, In A Sort Of Imbalance, Suspended In Weightlessness, It Is A Perfectly Composed Painting. Whose Space Is Masterfully Organized So That Everything Is In Order. That Is To Say, In The Motionless Expectation Of A Fall Maintained On The Last Point Of Balance By The Sole Will Of God. Of The Author. From A Compositional Point Of View, It Is A Peak Reached By Louis Mendrisse.

In This Confinement, A Ship Or Spacecraft (or Current Life) Still Opening Its Portholes Onto The Cosmos, In A Stylization Touching On Line Drawing, A Woman Or Perhaps An Asexual Being, Holds, In The Center All The Light. Final Spiritualization Of A World Where Relegated, Or Hidden, Men Are No Longer Anything But Voyeurs, Behind Closed Doors. Unless They Are The Watchers.

The Threat Comes From The Shadows, From The Carefully Measured Black, And From An Indefinable Metallic Form Concretizing The Final Attack Which Is Being Prepared. Violence Is A Prisoner Here, But Danger Also Comes From Outside. Can This Space Ship Still Reach A Haven Of Happiness And Security? The Expression On The Faces Seems To No Longer Believe It. The Sun Is Only The Figure Of A Geometric Indifference, Foreign To Itself. Humanity.

This Disturbing Painting Carries A Very Powerful Philosophical Message That Can Be Extended

Deep Deeper Will. He Opposes Materialism To The Hope Of An Eternity, The Enjoyment Of Life Spirituality.

Perhaps Also A Freudian Feeling Would Struggle With Pure Love.

We Can Dream Endlessly About This Painting By Louis Mendrisse. The Painter Did Not Give Us The Key And His Work Remains A Permanent Mystery, Both In Reality And Figuratively, It Is Research And Beauty Of Nature. Without Limit, Without Concession To Prettiness, Nor Traditional Picturesqueness. It’s A Fresh Look At The Service Of A Hand Without Any Attachment.

A State Of Soul In The Face Of Nothingness? Or Towards Which Stranger?

May The Thought Remain And Life Would Be Saved? Could Women Be The Last Hope?

                        ;                         Bsp ;                         Bsp ;    Irène De St Christol For Intermusées 1983