Tag: Letter to Jacques Brel
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The Letter …
“The Letter / La Lettre”, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm., 2021. Love relationships can be difficult for us all. We often read about and follow the intimate details of celebrities’ tumultuous love lives. Such juicy exposés are popcorn for the heart and psyche. Sometimes famous persons/artists who are personally unknown to me influence…
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Revisiting — Jacques Brel et Zizou … Ne me quitte pas !
“Ne me quitte pas”, oil on canvas, 65 x 90 cm., 2017, is an abstract geometric painting inspired by Jacques Brel’s famous love song, and its imagined personal history. Here his plea — Ne me quitte pas (Don’t leave me) — is scrawled on a blackboard in the mathematics classroom (an arena where the follies…
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Satirical fictional letter to Jacques Brel
Cher Jacques, Félicitations ! Ta chanson ” Ne me quitte pas ” est devenue un succès énorme. Tu fais sentir ta douleur … en utilisant la veine ensorcellante de Maurice Ravel, comme dans son ” Boléro “, où tu gardes le même refrain et le même ton calme, mais la colère en plus, dans tes…
Oso Para Vos 
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