{"id":3012,"date":"2013-10-21T17:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:05:48","slug":"at-the-met-visiting-balthus-cats-and-girls-paintings-and-provocations-with-a-college-of-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/10\/21\/at-the-met-visiting-balthus-cats-and-girls-paintings-and-provocations-with-a-college-of-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Balthus at the Met, thanks to a sensitive colleague of the artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Balthus, Cats and Girls\u2014Paintings and Provocations. Ph. Arianna Carossa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski),Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, 1938. Oil on cardboard mounted on wood, 39 \u00bd x 32 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Emil, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1987. \u00a9 Balthus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski), Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Dreaming Balthus,1938. Oil on canvas, 59 x 51 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998. \u00a9 Balthus <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski), Girl at a Window, 1955. Oil on canvas, 77 1\/8 x 51 3\/8 in. Private collection. \u00a9 Balthus <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski), Mitsou, 1919. Black ink on paper, 6 x 4 \u00be in. Private collection. \u00a9 Balthus <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Balthus, Cats and Girls\u2014Paintings and Provocations. Ph. Arianna Carossa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An interesting perspective on the exhibition on Balthus<\/a> now at the Met (until January 12, 2014) is given by the New York based artist Arianna Carossa<\/a>, who last week visited the show for cfa. Arianna links Balthus to the French poet Francis Ponge and his way to understanding reality. Ponge was indeed able to see beyond the object and grasp its \u201cintelligence\u201d. In the same way, as Arianna points out, the works by Balthus turn from being the objects of the show to being its actual subjects. \u201cWhile walking around the rooms – she notices – I had the feelings that the paintings were looking at me. I was perceiving their strength. I told myself that it wasn’t the painting itself that actually created Balthus but viceversa\u201d. If art that talks about other art is most of the time an art loss, we wouldn’t say the same about artists who talk about other artists…<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les arbres se d\u00e9font \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur d’une sph\u00e8re de brouillard<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans le brouillard qui entoure les arbres, les feuilles leur sont<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

d\u00e9rob\u00e9es; qui d\u00e9j\u00e0, d\u00e9contenanc\u00e9es par une lente oxydation,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

et mortifi\u00e9es par le retrait de la s\u00e8ve au profit<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

des fleurs e fruits, depuis les grosses chaleurs d\u2019ao\u00fbt<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

tenaient moins \u00e0 eux.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l\u2019\u00e9corce des rigoles verticales se creusent par<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

o\u00f9 l\u2019humidit\u00e9 jusqu\u2019au sol est conduite \u00e0 se d\u00e9sint\u00e9resser des<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

parties vives du tronc.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les fleurs sont dispers\u00e9es, le fruits sont d\u00e9pos\u00e9s. Depuis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

la plus jeune \u00e2ge, la r\u00e9signation de leurs qualit\u00e9s vives e de partie de leur<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

corps est devenue pour les arbres un exercise familier.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis Ponge<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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