Jean Detheux's Blog (6)

November 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of the start of my collaboration with the immense Italian harpsichordist Paola Erdas.

We have made quite a collection of movies together since, and we are likely to do live concerts very soon, in Trieste, Italy.

Several of our movies have been selected by…

“Paul Valery once said that a bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning,” Philip Guston told an interviewer in 1966, adding, “In a painting in which this is a room, this is a chair, this is a head, the imagery does not exist — it vanishes into recognition…. I want my work to include more.”

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My latest article has recently been published by the Society for Animation Studies, it was also printed in the Melbourne International Animation Festival catalogue which was held a few weeks ago.

It examines important “steps” in the genesis of an image, and it offers avenues to explore to people who either have approached drawing superficially, or only know the “procedural" aspect of digital art.…

Here’s a collection of favourite pieces of mine done in collaboration with some remarkable musicians, pianists, yes, but most of them composers as well: Mostly with piano(s) (and pianists)…

Here’s my third blog entry at Animation Studies, it has a lot to do with the place of Visual Music (and Experimental/Abstract Animation) in the world of Animation festivals: http://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=1052…

Here's an article that points to something really basic, too often overlooked: 

"James Ensor, Willem de Kooning, and “Visual Karaoke.”