P I C A S S O
The Demolishing

By the age of 16 he has absorbed the basic techniques of traditional painting. At 19, he produces admirable pastiches of the works of the leading lights of Montmartre. After the scandal provoked by the Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon), he imperturbably alternates his oddly-shaped women with beautiful haughty creatures, an arrangement of triangles with a sprinkling of pointillism dubbed La jeune fille devant la cheminée (Young Girl in front of the chimney), and a wonderful Spanish beauty, also given a touch of pointillism La Salchichona (The Salami Seller).

After years of sentimental aesthetics, after his blue and rose periods, he suddenly abandons his pensive fairground entertainers, his melancholy nudes and his dreamy harlequins to play a truly dirty trick on Art, on an art that has remained within bounds despite all the previous daring innovations, a dirty trick from which he has not yet recovered. It is, of course, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

There was one taboo that no painter either wished to nor could infringe: that of the female body. Female nudity has always been an object of worship, or rather that of a tacit convention between the painter who reveals and the aesthete who regards. Does there exist an aesthetic object of contemplation more rich in signification and connotation than a woman's body?

PICASSO  dehumanizes,  YATRIDES  transfigures :

Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Museum of Modern Art - New York 1907

 

PICASSO

- Lives amidst scandal and provocation
- Does not wish to prostitute himself (seek the easy path)
- Considers that the painter is greater than the painting
- Discredits traditional techniques to dispel the public's illusions
- Rejects all theorizing
- Scorns those who must research
- Dissects and appropriates other painters' work
- Claims that art is a lie which enables one to arrive at the truth
- Kills desire through nightmare
- Amuses, excites, but disappoints through the incompleteness of his work.

 

 

 

 

 

Georges Yatridès Voici je fais toute chose nouvelle, 116x81 cm Collection privée France 1978

YATRIDES

- Lives outside the tumult (René Char: "Yatridès, painter outside the tumult").
- Does not wish to prostitute his work
- Considers that the painter is less than his work
- Renounces unfamiliar techniques to develop those of his own
- Is a theoretician
- Respects the research required to attain perfection
- Respects the work of his precursors, but wishes to raise it to a higher point
- Proposes art as being a fiction wherein truth is realized Transfigures desire.
- Disturbs through his perfection, but fulfils those who are won over.

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Extracts from following documents and works :
Official Authorities : "Administrative biography"

Arthur Conte : "Yatridès master of time" SGL 04.03.1991
Sacha Bourmeyster : "Yatridès and his century" , "Yatridès the painter of the invisible reality" , "Yatridès, l'anti-Picasso" SGL 24.03.1994
"The Interstellars Icons" SGL 31.03.1994 - "Yatridès and the Bible" SGL 30.10.96
Monographic catalogues 1954-1993 : Exhibitions and Retrospectives YATRIDES
Monographic catalogues : "International Biennials art festivals" Canada-France from 1987 to 1993 (Great Master guest of honour -Grand Maître invité d'honneur)
Events, Schools of painting 1900-1959, 1910-1960, 1910-1965 : USA Events achievment held with works, of which Yatridès ' paintings, lent by US important prominent Private Collections of the United States (See "His work" and in "His life" : "Bibliography")
Films, Videos, University theses : YATRIDES ' work has fascinated film-makers, movie-directors, semiologists, among the best of our time.
See in this website "His life" : "Entourage" in which appear "Jean DELANNOY", "Marcel CARNE" famed movie Directors,
film-Makers and in "His work" :
"YATRIDES - KUBRICK".

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