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Rene Laubies, Untitled, 1959, mixed media on paper; signed and dated lower right, 38x35cm How is one to crack its liminal appe...

On Cloudist Methodology

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Cloudist methodology may tersely be defined as a natural reflective calligraphic tendency of literati colour-field non-figuration whose outc...

Rene Laubies, an abstract thesis

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Laubies, ca 1995, Paris Welcome to our ongoing research project, an abstract thesis not on or about, but   very close to  the life an...

Laubies, Aphorism No. 9

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A painter who claims to paint what he wants is mistaken. The painting is imposed on us, changes its course, goes left and right, and then s...

Guo Xi as cultural toponym

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"Early Spring" (1072) by Guo Xi (c. 1020–90) GUO XI, the distant eleventh-century cultural figure, wafts as a buoyant toponym...

Photo of Laubies (ca. 1960)

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Colonial French painter Rene Laubies (ca. 1960)

Laubies, Aphorism No. 6

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The conservators in France are like all the French, they detest the painting and the painters that live. Deaths reassure them, but be on ...

Paul Facchetti

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His flair is inexplicable; if not for that, it would be too easy and everyone would have some! When seeing a painting for the first time ...

On Laubies' work

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Rene Laubies The "naturalist non-figurative" abstract impressions of René Laubiès, spiritual tête of "nuagisme,...

Nuagisme / Cloudism

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Nuagisme (literally "cloudism") is a French art-historical-critical term advanced in the mid-1950s by art critic Julien Alvard (1...

Italo Magliano

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Rene Laubies (1924 - 2006) "Sky," 1967 Oil on paper, 50 x 55 cm Greek National Gallery, Athens (inv. no: Π.4090) Donated by...

Guido Le Noci

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He discovered my painting at Facchetti 's gallery when I was in the United States. He had opened his gallery in via Brera [in Milan] w...

Japanese skinship, food and communion with kami

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I have ardent dietary, emotional and other featured "skinship" bonds with Japanese customs and formalities. My mother died when ...

Laubiès on Pound

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Ezra Pound «I don't remember having any difficulties returning to visit Pound at St. Elisabeth's  Asylum . I asked him whethe...

Palma Bucarelli

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Palma Bucarelli At a dinner in Rome where Ione [Graziani], fiery inspirer of Ungaretti, praised physical love, Palma turned to me and ...

Fautrier, Seibel, Facchetti, Le Noci, Magliano

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We find it interesting (correct us if we're wrong) that Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) did not have a solo post-mortem show until 26 years a...

Assembling notes around Paul Facchetti

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We would like to assemble some scattered notes in homage to Paul Facchetti (b. 1912). The spur of our account is very recent news that this...

Not for your amusement but your edification: boomtown ports

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How do such instances of vital sensibility sustain themselves in an ambiance of memory? Why do they impel us, call attention to themselves ...

I first met Rene on the beach at Puri (draft)

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Rene Laubies, "Composition" (before 1975, oil on paper glued to stretched linen) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Côte d'...

Tipped into sheer prefiguration

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René Laubies (French, 1924–2006) Mykonos, 1958. Oil on paper laid on canvas, 65 x 100 cm. (25.6 x 39.4 in.) On learning of the p...

Paul Facchetti has passed away

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Photographer and gallery owner Paul Facchetti died on 27 November 2010. He was 98 years old. Facchetti was the consummate mid-20 to ear...

Interiorising Southeast Asian Histories

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Of the tropical agricultural and horticultural goods that stimulated 15th century Southeast Asian sea trade both among herself as well as...

Eurasian artist René Laubiès (a draft note)

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In many ways a product of South-South trade, its culture exchanges, African-Asian capital flows including peripheral hybridizaiton (Verges ...

Laubies on Nuagiste procedure

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Rene Laubies, 1981, oil on coated paper mounted on stretched Belgian linen   "When a Chinese painter of the ancient high perio...

Rene Laubies: tracing the non-figurative

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We came across Pan Da'an (潘大安) and his valuable essay "Tracing the traceless antelope: Toward an interartistic semiotics of the Ch...

Art Informel

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In its 1950s French art critical context, Art Informel (alternately spelled Art informal ) indicated little in the sense of "informal ...

Rene Laubies: Aesthetic matters: likes & dislikes

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Rene Laubies, it occurs to us, kept mysteriously silent on matters of aesthetics, formal or informal, vis-à-vis his literal performance (é...

Rene Laubies, new bio blurb

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Rene Laubies was a painter, translator, traveler and writer. He was born in Cholon in the Imperial French Colony of Cochin-china to a well-...

Proviso

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Our area of focus may be cautiously expressed as "ascetic-arts research methodology" with a strong infiltrative-cum-ethnographic ...

Rene's last walk to the beach

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And passed through morning palm groves tall golden grasses bent by breeze bordered everything bathed in diaphanous sunbeams, dissipating m...

Pound, Laubies, Alvard, Facchetti

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1. Someone had written me inquiring about the Colonial French nonfigurative painter Rene Laubies who presumably passed away sometime at the...

Waterlines and Nuagiste archeology; Laubies, Literati and non-figuration

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Distillations from an ongoing study, a lofty memorandum of narrow inlet not too obscure, gleaned from a cluster of filtered evocations on a ...

Independent Ascetic-Arts Curation

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We deplore being drawn into association with any form of religious ideology or dogma, their attendant obsessions with consolidation of legi...

Pound's portrait

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Laubies' portrait [of  Ezra Pound ] only underscored what he had told me personally (ca 1989) about visiting Pound at the facility for ...

Ezra Pound

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I do not remember having had any difficulties returning to visit Pound at St. Elisabeth's Asylum. I asked him whether the surrounding...