Hugues Dufourt

Dawn Flight is the title of a painting that the British painter and engraver Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) painted in 1959. His scientific training - chemistry, geology - and his mathematical ski...

Es gibt im Französischen keine Entsprechung für das Wort 'uneasiness'. In Ermangelung eines treffenderen Ausdrucks, wird es daher unzutreffenderweise mit 'inquiétude' (Besorgnis) oder 'intranquilité'...

The Duel with Cudgels (Dos Forasteros) is one of the 'black paintings' by Goya (1820-1823), from the Country-house of the Deaf-Man, which can be viewed at the Prado Museum in Madrid. Goya depicts two...

L'Atelier rouge after Matisse A large-format oil painting on canvas, (181 × 219,1 cm), L'Atelier rouge by Henri Matisse, is one of his Intérieurs symphoniques, a group of four paintings done during th...

In 1888, Van Gogh wrote: 'The painter of the future, is a colourist the likes of which has never existed.' At the time, Van Gogh broke away from the impressionists, expanding their intuition of colour...

Written for piano, this piece renews with the fantastic essence of the Lied. The Lied, as Marcel Beaufils wrote, 'attests to an essential apprehension which is felt by an entire Germanic country, perh...

Recording:1 CD Métier (MSV 28524)Marilyn Nonken: Voix voiléesMarilyn Nonken (piano)

The title is taken from Rabelais's famous passage about frozen words. The words themselves reach a verdict in the hyper objectivity of a rigid world, in the delirium of an auditory hallucination. It i...

Music for the eponymous film recorded on December 2, 1986 by members of Ensemble Itinéraire, shown for the first time on December 7, 1987 at the French Cinémathèque (Palais de Chaillot, Paris) and per...

The title refers to a gouache by Barnett Newman dating from 1946-47. Rejecting the grid pattern, the fragmentation of time, and the compartmentalised spaces that constrain occidental tradition, contra...

Written for eight instruments, The Watery Star is marked by minimalist poetics. The watery star, a title borrowed from Shakespeare and mentioned in Panofsky's book on Dürer, signifies a particular mel...