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| At the beginning, J.D. used to give his paintings either a title referring to a specific form or colour, for instance, " Long ", " Two white spikes ", " Balance ", " Green background " " Grey Gorde ", or a title imagined or taken at random from a book, like Sun ears ", " The cosmos is in the kitchen ", " Like water " It allowed to name the works but also the times or the series more easily (see § Periods). When he noticed that viewers were often inclined to relate the composition to the relevant title, towards 1951, the idea occured to him to " call his paintings after " the name of a saint dicovered when travelling or visiting old churches, inscribed on the pedestal of a statue or written on the list of the former bishops of a diocese. Soon after, he systematized the list of paintings, giving them names beginning by A and B for 1956, C and D for 1957, E and F for 1958. As far as the titles were concerned, J.D. observed a single rule : he would give the paintings of a same year different names beginning by the same initial, i. e G for 1959, H for 1960, etc. Besides, he had a partiality for rare or obsolete names of Breton or Carolingian saints. Yet, he disliked too original or too suggestive first names like Carmen, Cleopatra or Napoleon. |
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