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| Rene Laubies |
The naturalist non-figurative and abstract impressions of Rene Laubies, the spiritual head of 'Nuagisme'; that vague appellation coined by his critics, who overlooked his exteriorized plasmas, spreading like windblown ash over arid terrains — anonymous transparencies of loosened stain on torrid earthen walls.
The light of quiescent colour, his tableaux, shade without tension toneless shade, texturous shade with warmth rubbed patchy under fine-scratched brushings, sun-blanched mauve.
'Just chase the thoughts away from your mind,' he said in Puri. His subtle changes in gait and laughter marked the culmination of modernist trends dating back to the ancient China's Tang dynasty.
Odorous strains, fecund terseness, disarming in their paucity, stoic in sheer purity. Each new tablet outflanking its precursor, a pure abstraction retaining no interpreters, inwardly comporting, devoid of gnostic footnotes, unsolicited ramps precipitating ends.
His winters in Palakunnu village, stunning, amazing, salubrious, calm, alert. Cessative tinctures of jissom diluted and dried, peeling in the morning sun. Winters in Palakunnu village stunning amazing salubrious calm alert cessative tinctures of jissom diluted dried and peeling in morning sun.
Spring exhibitions in Paris and Milan, then returning through the Greater and Lesser Sundas. Hunger, loss, tabulation and thirst in patterned stains of sweat-laced breezes. Setting off alone when the turpentine has finished, alive and transparent in a pan-Islamic silence.
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See Nuagisme / Cloudism.
