Exhibition
« Magic of colour »
From January 13th to May 2nd 2004 |
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About 70 paintings and sculptures
are structured into a coloured tour,
based on primary and secondary colours, concluding with
a multicoloured harmony. The international origin of the
works offers the opportunity to get a global idea on how
naïve artists use colour. |
The exhibition is hung in
a way that secondary colours come in between the primary
colours composing them : from blue to red the visitor
passes through purple ; from red to yellow, through
orange ; from yellow to blue, through green. Thus
are formed three colour triads : blue-purple-red,
red-orange-yellow, yellow-green-blue.
Outside this loop, the Museum's upper floor offers fifteen
multicoloured pictures. |
| Colour
in the place of honour. Why ? |
| Naïve art is most often
considered as a purely descriptive art, depicting everyday
life, simply and innocently. Nevertheless, this poetry of
the narrative masks a meticulous elaboration of forms :
Naïve artists defy verisimilitude, by stylizing reality,
in the means of colours, purified volumes, flattened perspectives
and anatomies which pretend to be unskilled ; they
create what Robert Thilmany designates as an « image
other than reality, equivalent and parallel to it ». |
| Naïve Art ingeniously marries
narrative and pictorial, manipulating the visible. As opposed
to the Fauvist or the Expressionist « shouting »
juxtapositions of colours, which show a definite disengagement
from objective reality, Naïve Art opposes coloured
harmony, which clouds the limits of real and ideal.
Naïve Art does not surprise : it dazzles. The
viewer is convinced of the simplicity of this art, whose
biggest deception is its own name : "naïve".
Imagery of the subconscious or deception of the ordinary ? |
| The exhibition " Magic
of Colour " is - as said by the name -
an attempt to study this "charmer" side of Naïve
Art, i.e. its capacity to be taken for a descriptive and
lyric imagery, by bewitching the viewer. "Magic of
Colour" studies Naïve Art through a new perspective,
in an aim to bring it back its ingenuity. A quality that
History of Arts would have often taken away... |
And
children, can they visit the exhibition "Magic of
Colour" ? |
| For scolars and preschool children, the MIDAN
proposes an educative booklet and a discovery tour in the
Museum's rooms. This playpack
needs about one hour and a half. Four is the minimal age
required. |
| Learning objectives : |
 the
sensibilization to art (learning to well observe the details
of an art work), the familiarization with the Museum space
(by associating visiting museums with having fun) |
| the
discovery of forms and colours (association of shapes, observation
games) |
| for
the 7-12 year-olds, an introduction to the theory of colour,
and a familiarization with the notions
of primary and secondary colour, warm and cold colour,
pigment mix... |
| the
improvement of communicational abilities (express their
opinion on the works) |
| the
stimulation of creativity |
