There again, we need time for things to become clearer.

Yatridès himself had already noticed it a long time ago. He saw there the unexpected, but constant, effect of a line resulting from the inevitable movement of his hand as it would mercilessly join battle with the canvas.

And now so perfect a sphere, first purple, then copper-coloured, suddenly appears in some inexplicable manner in front of the central figure. Js it merely a virtual image? The replica of his own Self? Or else, has he made it rise up from the bowels of the earth using superhuman, scientific or post-scientific powers? Perhaps he has only sensed its irresistible ascent?

Asking these questions is not just a matter of a simple game of wits concerning the 'wild imaginings of a painter', for these questions involve the very credibility of his work. Yatridès does not paint as his mood or fancy directs him.

In the first instance, the painter would share his own uncertainties with us. Over and above the questionings that are now possible, because expressed in pictorial language within the framework of the third abode, attempts to find answers will emerge. Is this a mere artefact? A satanic temptation? Or the real beginnings of a dialogue with the Invisible beneath appearances and symbols?

In the second, the standing Man, more than the enigmatic sphere, would be the bearer of meaning. Let us go back to the ironic questions we posed at the outset :

This is the initial phrase of the long quotation from Albert EINSTEIN that YATRIDES wanted to figure as introduction to the book devoted to his work: "Yatridès and His Century".

The Sphere is not a new Idol announced by a prophet. It is the depiction by a painter of this MYSTERIOUS thing about which a scholar addresses us. The whole of YATRIDES '  work bears witness to the same exclusive attachment to the questioning of this mystery, questioning based on an expectation.

In order to undertake an experience, a known object, a mystery, must have previously been designated and named, a real object, though invisible, for Hope has shed light on it. This Expectation expresses itself pictorially in the work of Georges YATRIDES by means of the LIGHT; it reigns supreme, disrupting and rearranging Time as well as Space. It invites us on a spiritual journey, reconciles order and freedom, value and truth, because the painter has known how to pictorially reconcile the irreconcilable; allowed the light to shine freely on all the sides of a volume, without this volume needing shadow to exist in the nature of things.

"My faith in the order of the world, confides Yatridès, has made me discover order in my work".

 What we call miracle, is the fruit of a hope born of faith. Of the miracles worked by the SAVIOUR, we no longer remember in particular, as in times past, the physical healing of lepers, the blind and the halt. CHRIST saved those who were lost and restored hope to men in enjoining them to get up and walk.

Such miracles alone have, up until now, prevented humanity from sinking into despair and self destruction. The Standing Man in "Essential Vibration" (The Experience, Final Phase) contemplates and names by its name the mysterious object of knowledge. His faith in the order of the world made possible this invocation. The end of the world as depicted by erstwhile figurative painting is behind us. A new renaissance is heralded. YATRIDES , '  paintings bear witness to it.

For the act of faith does not limit itself to a depiction, however perfect, of the miracle of the standing Man:

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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 Yatridès
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's paintings, lent by US important prominent Private Collections of the United States (See in "His work" and
in "His life" : "Bibliography")
Films, Videos, University theses : YATRIDES 's  work has fascinated film-makers, movie-directors, semiologists, among
the best of our time.
See in this website in "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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