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François Morellet

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François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary painter, sculptor, and light artist. [1]

43 relations: Abstract art, Alhambra, Annely Juda, Catherine Millet, Centre for International Light Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Chatou, Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, Cholet, Conceptual art, Ellsworth Kelly, Environmental art, Francisco Sobrino, Frank Stella, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Gallery Hyundai, Geometry, Great Britain, Grenada, Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, Installation art, Italy, Jean-Pierre Yvaral, John Cage, Julio Le Parc, Light art, Loire Valley, Minimalism (visual arts), Neon lighting, Netherlands, Oulipo, Paris, Philippe Méaille, Pi, Randomness, Representation (arts), Saumur, Sol LeWitt, Switzerland, United States, Unna, Vera Molnár, Victor Vasarely.

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Alhambra

The Alhambra (الْحَمْرَاء, Al-Ḥamrā, lit. "The Red One",The "Al-" in "Alhambra" means "the" in Arabic, but this is ignored in general usage in both English and Spanish, where the name is normally given the definite articleالْحَمْرَاء, trans.; literally "the red one", feminine; in colloquial Arabic: the complete Arabic form of which was Qalat Al-Hamra)الْقَلْعَةُ ٱلْحَمْرَاءُ, trans.

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Annely Juda

Annely Juda CBE (born Anneliese Emily Brauer; September 23, 1914 – August 13, 2006) was a German art dealer known for founding the Annely Juda Fine Arts gallery in London.

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Catherine Millet

Catherine Millet (born 1 April 1948 in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer, art critic, curator, and founder and editor of the magazine Art Press, which focuses on modern art and contemporary art.

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Centre for International Light Art

The Centre for International Light Art (CILA, German: Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst) is an art museum in Unna, Germany.

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Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou, commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou and also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.

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Chatou

Chatou is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art

The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, situated in the Loire valley,is a private museum open to the public.

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Cholet

Cholet (locally, probably from Latin cauletum, "cabbage") is a commune of western France in the Maine-et-Loire department.

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Conceptual art

Conceptual art, sometimes simply called conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

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Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism.

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Environmental art

Environmental art is a range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works.

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Francisco Sobrino

Francisco Sobrino (1932 – 11 May 2014) was a Spanish sculptor.

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Frank Stella

Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.

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Galerie Kamel Mennour

Galerie Kamel Mennour is a Parisian contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Kamel Mennour.

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Gallery Hyundai

Gallery Hyundai was founded in 1970, initially located in Insadong, South Korea.

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Geometry

Geometry (from the γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Grenada

Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.

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Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel

Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) (Research Art Group) was a collaborative artists group in Paris that consisted of eleven opto-kinetic artists, like François Morellet, Julio Le Parc, Francisco Sobrino, Horacio Garcia Rossi, Yvaral, Joël Stein and Vera Molnár, who picked up on Victor Vasarely's concept that the sole artist was outdated and which, according to its 1963 manifesto, appealed to the direct participation of the public with an influence on its behavior, notably through the use of interactive labyrinths.

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Installation art

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jean-Pierre Yvaral

Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934–2002), professionally known as Yvaral, was a French artist working in the fields of op-art and kinetic art from 1954 onwards.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc (born September 23, 1928) is an Argentina-born artist who focuses on both modern op art and kinetic art.

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Light art

Light art or luminism is an applied art form in which light is the main medium of expression.

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Loire Valley

The Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire), spanning, is located in the middle stretch of the Loire River in central France, in both the administrative regions Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire.

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Minimalism (visual arts)

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts.

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Neon lighting

Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Oulipo

Oulipo (short for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature") is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Philippe Méaille

Philippe Méaille (French; born 27 April 1973) is a French Contemporary Art Collector.

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Pi

The number is a mathematical constant.

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Randomness

Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.

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Representation (arts)

Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else.

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Saumur

Saumur is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.

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Sol LeWitt

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Unna

Unna is a city of around 59,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the seat of the Unna district.

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Vera Molnár

Vera Molnár (born 1924) is a French media artist of Hungarian origin.

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Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely (born Győző Vásárhelyi,; –), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leaderThe New York Times obituary https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/18/arts/victor-vasarely-op-art-patriarch-dies-at-90.html of the op art movement.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Morellet

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