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When the Work Leaves the Canvas
ARTICLE 5 — EXPLORING ABSTRACTION What happens when the frame is no longer enough? A study by Marie Dernoncourt — 2026 For decades, abstraction had transformed what could appear on a canvas. It had liberated colour, fragmented form, asserted gesture, explored material, and at times chosen silence and…
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Removing to Breathe
ARTICLE 4 — EXPLORING ABSTRACTION Monochrome, repetition, emptiness, light and space A study by Marie Dernoncourt — 2026 After the intensity of gesture and the thickness of material, some artists took the opposite direction. They no longer sought to add, but to reduce. A single colour, a repeated form, an almost empty surface or a…
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After the War: Gesture, Material and Silence
ARTICLE 3 — EXPLORING ABSTRACTION When the work becomes a presence A study by Marie Dernoncourt — 2026 After the first inventions came a period of expansion and rupture. The Second World War did not alone explain the transformations of art, but it profoundly altered their context: European certainties had been wounded,…
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The First Paths of Abstraction
Colour, geometry, spirituality, movement and material A study by Marie Dernoncourt — 2026 As the recognisable object recedes, relationship comes forward. But this advance does not follow a single route. At the dawn of modern abstraction, several paths opened almost simultaneously: some sought the vibration of colour, others the order of geometry, a spiritual reality, the energy…
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Before Abstraction: When Representing the World Is No Longer Enough
A study by Marie Dernoncourt — 2026 Abstract art did not appear on the day a painter suddenly decided to stop representing the world. It formed more slowly, like a crack in the obvious: what if seeing did not consist solely in recognising? What if a colour, a line, a rhythm…
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Kandinsky — Hearing Colour
Kandinsky, the music of colour and inner necessity: three works through which to understand what connects his abstraction to my own artistic research.