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| The biography, attached
in annex gives a few explanations on the different periods distinguished
by J.D. in the lecture that he gave in 1964 (see § Work
of the painter). " The purist period ", " Sérusier's
time ", " Uhde's time ", " The kings of lino ", " The cats in the
cupboard ", " Processions ", " the Berre Lake ", " The cats'tails
", " Barroco ", " The conscious dream "," The 3 V" " Motorways "...
The various names defined bigger or smaller groups of paintings which
had one or many points in common. It is only for greater convenience
that J.D. named such period, such time or such series of his
work. (see also § Titles).
The relevant qualification, often given for fun, had but very remote,
even no connection at all with criteria of form or structure, which,
generally speaking, allow relating a specific painting to a given
category.
In 1954 René de Solier (see Biblio.) stated that " Deyrolle's world was both secret and like a play. " However, with some elements, it is quite easy to date a painting approximatively (the year is never mentioned on the canvas) and to indicate which category it belongs to. Besides, some paintings also bear certain features of various series, while others |
are " unique of their kind ". Moreover, two considerations are worth recalling: on the one hand, as he confirmed himself in 1964, J.D.'s pictorial progress never underwent any abrupt change:
On the other hand, J.D.'s progress was not in the least systematic. He usually gave up a plastic or a graphic " design " as soon as he felt that it might restrict him to " a style ". He was very careful about stylistic features, likely to be mechanical or mere pretence. This explains the formal diversity and sheer variety of subjects in J.D.'s work, the true cohesion of which may only be appreciated by alert art lovers, precisely because it is far from artificiality. |
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