Eric Satie Illustrated by Calder. Why not?

"It's serious without seeming to be."

Neoplastician from the start, he believed in the absolute of two colored rectangles....

His need for fantasy broke the connection; he started to "play" with his materials: wood, plaster, iron wire, especially iron wire.... a time both picturesque and witty....

....A reaction; the wire stretches, becomes rigid, geometrical—pure plastic—it is the present era—an anti-Romantic impulse dominated by a concern for balance.

Looking at these new works—transparent, objective, exact—I think of Satie, Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp, Brancusi, Arp—these unchallenged masters of unexpressed and silent beauty. Calder is in the same family.

He is 100-percent American.

Satie and Duchamp are 100-percent French.

Where do they meet?

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Eric Satie illustre par Calder. Pourquoi pas?

"C'est serieux sans en avoir l'air".

Neoplasticien a l'origine il a cru a l'absolu des deux rectangles colores....

Son besoin de fantaisie a rompu le lien; il s'est mis a "jouer" avec les matieres: bois, platre, fil de fer, surtout fil de fer.... periode pittoresque et spirituelle....

.... Reaction, le fil se tend, devient rigide, geometrique - plastique pure - c'est l'epoque actuelle - volonte anti-Romantique dominee par le souci de l'equilibre.

Devant ces nouvelles oeuvres transparentes, objectives, exactes, je pense a Satie, Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp, Brancusi, Arp, ces maitres incontestes du beau inexpressif et silencieux. Calder est de cette ligne-la.

C'est un Americain 100/100.

Satie et Duchamp sont 100/100 Francais.

Comme on se rencontre?