CLARKE-KUBRICK 1968

The analysis which follows in no way aims, with mercenary ulterior motives, at claiming paternity rights in his own interest. YATRIDES has shown clearly enough in his life as a painter the little importance he attached to that kind of preoccupation.

It is evident that his slabs came first.

Did these Interstellar Icons have a direct influence on the work of the film-maker and the novelist? It hardly matters. The comparison between the different approaches: pictorial, literary, and cinematic shall, I hope, allow devotees of Yatridès' works a better understanding of the slabs' importance and of their significance in the painter's very creative process. A painter whose constant ambition is to push back the boundaries of his art.

"2001, A SPACE ODYSSEE" is not merely a particularly evocative title, the very stuff of dreams for millions of human beings at the dawn of a space age that promised so much in the way of technical achievements and scientific discoveries. The creative adventure that Arthur C. CLARKE and Stanley KUBRICK, novelist and film-maker respectively, lived through together, working on a common script, is also most instructive in so far as, starting with an original idea , two such contrasting modes of writing as printed text and audio-visual montage compete with each other.

Together, for in 1968, two works were simultaneously proposed to the public, which were respectively neither the film version of a novel, nor a novel inspired by a successful film.

Yatridès Nude in a life 60x92cm, 1962	Yatridès Masterminded regeneration 35x54cm, Graphite 1959	Yatridès The screen of an other reality 34x52cm, Graphite 1961
Yatridès Revival 92x65cm, détrempe 1962	Yatridès The Theorem 41x31.8cm, sanguine 1960	Yatridès Eternity makers 65x48cm, Etude 1959

Yatridès Compilation purpose: Eternity 24x31cm, Etude 1957

Yatridès L'oreille et l'univers anti-stochastique 45.5x63cm, Graphite 1965

Yatridès Chrysler and the futur US advertising campaign Prototype model 24x31cm, 1957

In KUBRICK's - CLARKE's famous "2001: a space Odyssee" (1968), Yatrides's Slab monolith was the argument, driving force of the movie.   We found again the Slab in PETER HYAMS's and CLARKE's "2010: Odyssee Two" (1985).   With  SPIELBERG's and KUBRICK's "A.I" Artificial Intelligence (2001- anniversary, "birthday" of "2001: a space Odyssee"!), appear Yatrides's Slabs towards the end :   they compose, without to be in contact, the cube-like space-craft which carries the translucent electronic humanoïds.  The free Slabs collected together to form this cube-shaped space-craft, break up and move away to liberate the humanoïds who discovered and met DAVID, Spielberg's Hero.

YATRIDES's Slabs, star argument of "2001 and 2010 : space Odyssees", becomes in "A.I. Atificial Intelligence" an object endowed with "cooperative autonomy". Anyway, with these three movies, even the first and third have traces of genius, they don't reach the capabilities of the metaphysical dimensions of YATRIDES's Slabs, as he gave to them from 1957. Nevertheless, one is forced to the conclusion that Yatrides's work shows and demonstrates the quality and weakness of Kubrick's sources.

While his slabs were used from 1968, already Yatrides had but one ambition : to apply his theory he demonstrated in 1972 at C.E.N.G. (Grenoble Centre of Atomic Studies) concerning a new property of time and his influence in various fields including that of light, like the one stemming from certain incandescent phases of different solid bodies. Paul Perroud immediately recognized the scientific value of his discoveries and enabled Yatridès to obtain patents delivered by the Washington D.C. Patent office (1974). (Paul Perroud, eminent specialist, Doctor of Knowledge at Berkeley, Director of the Offices for Special Application of Physics at the C.E.N.G. (Grenoble Centre of Atomic Studies).

As Yatrides said :  "In a way, to go farther, find the sublime Mathematician, Physics Master, the one that men name God". To apply on a plane some properties of this authentic new light.

[ Yatridès' Slabs in his Painting ] [ The Third Dwelling Place ]

Important Note :  This page "Yatrides 1960 - Clarke, Kubrick 1968" is extracted from the book "Interstellar Icons" of the great Professor Alexander Sacha Bourmester, Ph. D, Doctor in semiology. His numerous books are devoted to Yatrides's painting and incidentally to Kubrick's work in relation with a part of Yatrides' creation.

Since Kubrick appears in this semiotic analysis, we have to mention the other quite inspired American Talents in Science-Fiction. (Characters, manners, situation, comic or musical comedies, cartoons, the film-makers and directors of these admirable movies are cited on "yatrides.com" in "His life" : Entourage).

In homage to these science-fiction talents who cannot be overlooked, sublime concerning the Veterans, elders or precursors who stimulated a lot of real new talents.:

Adams (Marcus), Ahearne (Joe), Altmann (Robert), Andersen, Anderson (Michael), Anderson (Paul), Apted (Michael), Badham (John), Baker (Roy Ward), Barker (Clive), Bay (Michael), Berlinger (Joe), Bowman (Rob), Brambilla (Marco), Bruckheimer (Jerry), Burton (Tim), Cameron (Crowe), Cameron (James), Carison (Richard), Carpenter (John), Carter (Chris), Caton-Jones (Michael), Cimono (Michael), Cohen (Larry), Columbus (Chris), Costner (Kevin), Coteau (David De), Michael Crichton, Cronenberg (David), Dante (Joe), Darabont (Frank), Davis (Andrew), Dear (William), Douglas (Gordon), Driver (Sara), Edlund (Richard), Emmerich (Roland), Fincher (David), Forster (Sam), Frears (Stephen), Friedkin (William), Fuller (Samuel), Furie (Sidney F.), Gilliam (Terry), Globus (Moram), Golan (Menahem), Gordon (Stuart), Guest (Val), Hackford (Taylor), Haskin (B.), Hill (Walter), Hoblit (Gregory), Hooper (Tom), Hopkins (Stephen), Howard (Ron), Hurd (Gale Ann), Hurlin (Renny), Jackson (Donald G.), Jackson (Peter), Jewison (Norman), Joffé (Roland), Johnston (Joe), Jones (Marc), Kershner (Irvin), King (Stephen), Kottcheff (Ted), Lain (Softley), Laven (Arnold), LLosa (Luis), Lucas (George), Lynch (David), Lynn (Jonathan), McCord Jonas, Mann (Michael), Medak (Peter), Miller (George), Nicholson (Mike), Nimoy ((Leonard), Norrington (Stephen), O'Connelly (Jim), Pal (George), Pellington (Mark), Pope (Tim), Raimi (Sam), Reynolds (Kevin), Richardson (John), Richter (W.D.), Robinson (Aldon), Romero (George A.), Ross (Gary), Russel (Charles), Sasdy (Peter), Schaffner (Franklin J.), Schlöndorff (Volker), Scott (Jake), Scott (Ridley), Silberling (Brad), Shatner (William), Sheridan (Jim), Schulman (Tom), Schumacher (Joel), Night Schyamalan, Silver (Joel), Smithee (Alan), Sommers (Stephen), Sonnenfeld (Barry), Spielberg (Steven), Spottiswoode (Roger), Stone (Oliver), Tippett, (Phil), Toro (Guillermo del), Tourneur (Jacques), Underwood (Ron), Walas (Chris), Ward Baker (Roy), Wedge (Chris), Weir (Peter), Wells (Simon), West (Simon), Wiley (Ethan), Wilcox F.M.), Kevin Williamson, Winders (Win), Wood (Edward D.), Wright (Geoffrey), Zemeckis (Robert), Zucker (Jerry).

Impossible to name all of them despite their worth we appreciate.

It is evident that really great creative film-makers and movies directors from other countries are an object of wonder. But we took into account American movies-Makers only, because Kubrick is not the only one science-fiction film-maker in this country. We are forced to the conclusion that Yatrides's work demonstrates the "frailty" of Kubrick's sources.

Englsh translation by Penelope Hamilton

Extracts from following documents and works :
Official Authorities : "Yatrides : Administrative Biography"

Arthur Conte : "Yatridès master of time" SGL 04.03.1991
Sacha Bourmeyster : "Yatridès and his century" , "Yatridès the painter of invisible reality" , "Yatridès anti-Picasso"SGL24.03.1994, "Interstellars Icons" SGL 31.03.1994, "Yatridès and the Bible" SGL 30.10.96
Samuel E. Johnson : Biographic notes (International Galleries USA)
Monographic catalogues, Yatridès 1954-1993 : Exhibitions (USA permanently, Latin America, Switzerland, Greece, Paris, Provincial France) and Rétrospectives
Monographic catalogues, Yatridès in International Art Festivals :"Great Master Guest of honour" ("International Biennials Canada-France 1987-1989"), "Main Master Guest of honour" ("International Biennials Canada 1988"), "Great Master Guest of Honour" ("International Biennials Vichy, Riom Mozac (Duke's cities), Quebec 1991-1993"), Grand Maître invité d'Honneur
Monographic catalogues, Yatridès : "Main Master guest of Honour" (France, specially Montmorency residential City)
Schools of Painting Events, USA : "Masters of Modern Art 1910-1960" (Special mention in "Watercolors, Gouaches, Pastels and Drawings from the Cubist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Surrealist Schools 1910-1960"), "Drawings and Watercolors 1900-1959" (Art Event following this held by the American Ambassy in Paris (Musée de l'Orangerie, winter 1958-1959 : "From Clouet to Matisse" - Drawings in American Private Collections"), "Specialists in XXth Century Masters" (Special mention in "Collector's Choice").
University theses "The painter outside the tumult" (Sciences et Télécommunications Masters', MSTC Universities Grenoble III 1981), "Public Relations and communications techniques in the service of Painting -Yatridès" (Lehodey-Dissertation mémoire 402 pages, 1983 - School of Press Attachés, Founder and Managing director : Denis Huismans)
Films and videos : "Yatridès, paintings rails of sky" (Sacré-Coeur Montmartre Paris, Provideo S.A. 1981), "Yatridès the painter outside the tumult" ("René Char" Provideo S.A. 1983), " Yatridès' Art" (Version Originale S.A. 1985), "Germany, Poland, Russia" 1984.

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 "YATRIDES - KUBRICK".