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Love, always love… inexhaustible source of inspiration,
Part One!
André Malraux used to say:
“Like Love, Art is not pleasure but Passion”
It is therefore not surprising that a great many masterpieces celebrate love, an absolutely inexhaustible source of inspiration. It would obviously be pretentious to retrace the history of art through the prism of Love, but some of the works below have particularly touched us!
Marina Abramovic
She performs a silent performance sitting in front of visitors who are watching her. She keeps her self-control until a well-known face appears in front of her: a youthful love. The scene is overwhelming because it is universal. We would like our lover to do this every day and that, conversely, we are still able to create such an emotion!
Pierre and Gilles
Pierre and Gilles are known for the photos retouched with paint that they make together since their meeting developing an image qualified as “kitsch and flashy”. Their love nourishes their art which regularly celebrates the art of loving. One of their exhibitions was entitled: Le grand Amour!
Find on this link a very touching interview of the two artists about their relationship to life, to love!
Juan Avalos, 1955
The Lovers of Teruel are two legendary characters, Diego de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura, who died in 1217. Diego and Isabel loved each other, but the girl’s father preferred a young man from a better family named Azagra. Diego leaves for war to amass honor and fortune, and returns after five years, a period of time that has been granted to him. Upon his return, he goes to his lover who has just married Azagra, asks her for a kiss that she refuses and dies of grief. Isabel enters the church during the funeral, gives a last kiss to Diego’s corpse and expires in that supreme embrace.
The mummified bodies of the two lovers were exhumed in 1555. Their tomb was located in the cloister of the church of San Pedro in Teruel, before the construction of a mausoleum by the sculptor Juan de Ávalos in 1955.
Robert Doisneau, 1950
The most famous French lovers are undoubtedly those of the town hall. This photograph taken in 1950 by Robert Doisneau has become legendary. It is the image of romanticism in Paris par excellence.
The image was actually commissioned by the American magazine Life. Behind this cliché that has become cult, there is however a staging. Indeed, the French photographer did not want to spontaneously capture people in the street when he was working on commission for legal reasons.
Brancusi, 1940
It’s a strange wooden crate. For the past few months, it has been completely covering the stele of a tomb in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. Tourists, who wander between the alleys where Baudelaire, Maupassant or Gainsbourg are buried, often pass in front of it without even taking a look at it. And yet, if they only knew… These light-coloured wooden planks hide one of the most expensive sculptures in the world: The Kiss, by Constantin Brancusi, a limestone block representing a couple in a fusional embrace. A marvel of purity that adorns the tomb of a certain Tatiania Rachewskaya, a young Russian woman who mysteriously committed suicide in Paris in 1910. Eros and Thanatos reunited.
Listen to Jérôme Dupuis tell the story of Tatiana Rachewskaya, her suicide, Brancusi’s beloved sculpture, the heirs and the art dealer.
Of course, we do not all have the means to offer to our beloved as a token of our Love a mausoleum, a Brancusi statue or a legendary photo.
On the other hand, the Happy Funky Family gives you the opportunity to collaborate closely with a variety of artists in terms of style and technique to find the best way to remind the one you love that you love him or her!
For lovers of sculpture, we particularly advise you to take a look at the very talented Linda from France and as for photo lovers, our new artist Olivier from USA transforms your couple’s photos into vintage artwork!
