{"id":1394,"date":"2023-05-22T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T09:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2023-05-22T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T09:59:58","slug":"yayoi-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/yayoi-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Yayoi in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"853\" src=\"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yayoi_Paris-1024x853.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yayoi_Paris-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yayoi_Paris-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yayoi_Paris-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yayoi_Paris-900x750.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yayoi_Paris-1280x1066.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oil on canvas \u2013 20 x 24 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nIt was in 2011, at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, that I discovered,\nwith my daughter, Yayoi Kusama, an avant-garde contemporary Japanese\nartist who is all at once a painter, a sculptor and an author. My\ndaughter, passionate about Japan, literally dragged me to go with\nher. What a wonderful surprise!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We are both\nimmediately caught up in her style. It&#8217;s literally love at first\nsight. The exhibition presents a selection of one hundred and fifty\nworks of art produced between 1949 and 2010. A pure delight for all\nour senses. And the very first one is our amazed eyes. These gigantic\npeas resulting from her hallucinations are incredible. All of her art\nthat saves her from her toxic family resonates with us. What a\nstrength, what a life force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, years\nlater, Yayoi Kusama reappears in the capital in a completely\ndifferent form, just as gigantic! She sits like a queen in front of\nLa Samaritaine. Founded by Ernest and Marie-Louise Cognac-Ja\u00ff in\n1870, the small shop on rue du Pont-Neuf has become more than a\ndepartment store with its Art Nouveau building on rue de Rivoli. It&#8217;s\n20,000 m\u00b2 for a selection of more than 600 brands from the world of\nfashion, watchmaking, jewelry and the largest beauty center in\nEurope. Just like that ! This emblematic place fits perfectly with\nthis one of a kind in the world artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really enjoyed\nmyself drawing and adding color to this painting which holds an\nimportant place in my heart. As it progressed, I revisited those two\nhours spent, so connected, with my daughter, 12 years back. Our\nwonder and our complicity are intact in my memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite moment\nin the making of this last painting was the coloring of Yayoi Kusama.\nHer white dress, her colored polka dots hypnotized me. I who usually\nrework each painting at least twice, there, I had it in a touch of\nthe brush. And I knew it perfectly well from the biginning: no\nhesitation, with steady hands, the precise and right gesture that\nrarely happens. It was one of those moments to live. It might have\nbeen waiting since 2011, who knows&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am very happy to\nshare it with you. I hope it brings you as much joy in your life as\nit brings me in mine. It is, to this day, certainly, my favorite\npainting even if others will come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil on canvas \u2013 20 x 24 inch \u2013 Unique work It was in 2011, at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, that I discovered, with my daughter, Yayoi Kusama, an avant-garde contemporary Japanese artist who is all at once a painter, a sculptor and an author. My daughter, passionate about Japan, literally dragged me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}