| When giving a talk
at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (see § Work of the
painter), J. D. told about the " revelation " which, twenty years
before, in 1944, urged him to " step across " abstraction, without
humming and hawing any longer:
| " My research went on
... I kept on working the object so that it might convey something
more significant or at least more significant to me (... ). |
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| " I was induced imperceptibly
to reject the subject, and one day, I found myself with a painting
which to me, represented a coffeepot. One of my friends,
Olivier Le Comeur*, who called in looked at the painting and
saw a bird. Then I realized how absurd my idea of torturing
the objects to get something else was. Thereafter, I used
forms and colours for what they were, not with a " different
" figurative mode in mind. |
| " I stepped across abstraction
and achieved it, or at least what I considered to be abstraction...
" |
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