Whilst motoring around Provence Uli & I visited the impressive Cathedrale d'Images close to Les Baux. The old limestone quarries are these days used as a unique location for special projected 'art shows'. This year's spectacle is based on Picasso's work. It was quite thrilling to see the paintings blown up & projected at such a huge scale. The images were cleverly matched to the facets of the rock face so the cubist work took on a further dimension.Classical music plays while the images whirl around & dissolve on & off the stone. The Guernica section is nightmarish as elements of the painting:-hands, tormented faces, the horse in agony- surround one 'in' the painting as it all builds to a cacophonous climax.
It's a fascinating location and was used by Cocteau to shoot 'Le Testament d'Orphee' in which Picasso took part.
yeaahhhhh you're lucky
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ReplyDeleteApologies if you knew this already (I didn't) but the Notre Dame de France church in London (just off Leicester Square, next to the Prince Charles cinema) has a mural painted by Cocteau.
http://www.crusader.org.uk/nddf/index.html
Well worth a look if you're ever in the Smoke. And worth it for this tapestry, too...
http://www.notredamechurch.co.uk/eng/images/tapestry.jpg
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Ah yes- a friend told me about that years ago but I never saw it. Next time I'm in London I'll go. In the south of France I found a secluded chapel that Cocteau decorated at Frejus:
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