In line with the artists who made purism the last great French artistic movement before surrealism, Michel Colombin happily takes up the standards of purism as defined by Amédée Ozenfant in the tenth and last issue of Elan "Cubism is a movement of purism". Cubism assured a real importance
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In line with the artists who made purism the last great French artistic movement before surrealism, Michel Colombin happily takes up the standards of purism as defined by Amédée Ozenfant in the tenth and last issue of Elan "Cubism is a movement of purism". Cubism assured a real importance in the history of the plastic arts, because it realized, already in part, its purist design to clean the plastic language of its superfluous terms, as Mallarmé tried it for the verbal language. . Michel Colombin's subjects are simple: musical instruments, characters, form takes precedence over color. Proportion and pure geometric ratios are put forward as the means of expressing plastic invariants. Michel Colombin's work reflects his assimilation of purist aesthetics. The painter breaks down the human form into its geometric elements. The characters are staged near architectural elements that amplify the vision of the outside world, most often seen from above, or towards vanishing points that make us dizzy. An orderly, structured, but disturbing world. We are placed like the tightrope walkers he likes to represent, balanced above the void. The musical instruments escape only slightly from this disturbing vision, the pianos are seen from above, the shadows cast by the musicians and the readers are projected, disturbing, treated with India ink. Francoise Icart