Olivier Morellet presents his animated graphic sequences

I have been painting or drawing for a long time on classical media. But I am also very sensitive to musical art, without unfortunately practicing it. Digital techniques allow me today to give my works a dimension that reminds a certain limit of what music is: a succession of events that follow each other in time, overlap, intersect, respond or in a more or less melodic or rhythmic manner. But here the notes, stamps and measures are replaced by the strokes, the colors and the shapes in motion. And all this, paradoxically, in the absence of any sound accompaniment so that attention can focus entirely on the graphic object. Animated sequences are presented in the category "videos". For each sequence, the interested visitor will find in the category "drawings" a number of still images representative of the sequence. The same category also presents drawings and paintings in the traditional sense of the term, made by conventional or numerical means.

summary of pure drawing videos

 in videos

In the articles that follow the first two, each animated sequence is presented with a few sentences of commentary and a few still illustrations.

This first article summarizes videos based mainly on elements drawn digitally by the author.

Visitors wishing to access a video directly will find the link by clicking on the appropriate thumbnail.

in black and white 2 (2 mn 41 s)

six rectangles (alone 2 mn 40 s, with sun on horizon 5 mn 17 s, with full moon 3 mn 59 s)

in all colors 8 (6 mn 31 s)

in all colors 7 (3 mn 40 s)

August 2025 (5 mn 41 s)

in all colors 6 (3 mn 25 s)

simple strokes of the pen (7 mn 38 s)

(almost) all colors (5 mn 58 s)

in all colors 5 (7 mn 31 s)

blue, black ... and red (7 mn 2 s)

lines and rectangles (6 mn 38 s)

curves and angles (8 mn 35 s)

jpeg versus mp4 (7 mn 0 s)

ink roll (8 mn 2 s)

in all colors 3 (3 mn 33 s)

merger (3 mn 47 s)

and yet something radiates in silence (6 mn 59 s)

may 2024 (6 mn 14 s)

dark matter (5 min 17 sec)

in all colors 2 (4 mn 34 s)

circles and straight lines (5 mn 38 s)

backlight (original version 3 mn 03 s, version accompanied by Pierre Boulez's Notations 2 mn 53 s)

I saw the sky become overcast, the sea quiver ... (original version 5 mn 18 s, second movement accompanied by Henri Dutilleux's Métaboles 2 mn 45 s)

in every color (8 mn 52 s)

draperies billow, waters and ice billow  (6 mn 35 s)

in the clouds (8 mn 29 s)

fractures (2 mn 18 s)

movements (original version 4 mn 01 s, version accompanied by Tout Un Monde Lointain and Henri Dutilleux's Métaboles 3 mn 51 s)

lights and reflections (8 mn 17 s)

broken lines (2 mn 53 s)

lines (4 mn 15 s)

night (7 mn 36 s)

three minus one (3 mn 59 s)

the clear and the imprecise (3 min 15 s)

Azure, Or and Argent (6 mn 15 s)

hatching (7 mn 35 s)

Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (6 mn 31 s)

in transparency (2 mn 21 s)

why a black triangle? (three separate movements, 4 min 10 sec, 6 min 45 sec, 3 min 49 sec)

black lines on a multicoloured background (3 mn 30 s)

‎black! (2 mn 16s)

red, blue, steamy, rough, aquatic ... (9 mn 19 s)

in red, black ... and green (4 mn 05 s)

Black? (5 min 52 sec)

making you feel dizzy (4 mn 10 s)

  travel (5 min 17 sec)
 
  beyond the horizon, over the various versions (6 mn 15 s, 6 mn 34 s)
 
  foam of the moment (3 mn 16 s)

  color schemes (5 min 59 sec)
 
  the sky comes to life over the water (8 mn 34 s)
 
  towards the horizon (6 mn 54 s)
 
 on three patterns (5 min 33 sec)
 
 in red and black (10 min 24 sec)
 
 metamorphosis (4 min 06 sec)
 
 Proliferation (2 mn 12 s)
 
 Surfaces (2 mn 00 s)
 
 Downstrokes and upstrokes (2 min 45 sec)
 
 Three short pieces of light (1 mn 19s, 1 mn 10 s, 1 mn 04 s)
 

‎Ink River (8 mn 15 s)

 
 Textures (4 min 53 sec)
 
  Nine designs, eight colors (4 mn 44 s)
 
 ... or strings? (2 min 48 sec)
  
 wave or corpuscle (7 min 52 sec)
 
 Back to black and white (1 min 34 sec)
 
 Meteors (2 min 43 sec)
 
 No green, or almost (2 min 40 sec)
 
 pencil, glass and light (6 mn 00 s)
 
 pencil, ink, metal (5 min 07 sec)
 
 waves and streaks (7 min 44 sec)
 

variations on color (1 min 55 sec)

  
 lines, hatchings and flat colors (5 min 23 sec)
 
 in three movements (6 mn 52 s)
 
  in color (1 min 48 sec)
 
 In black and in color (1 min 57 sec)
 
 in black and white (1 min 58 sec)
 

summary of videos with live shots

 in videos

This second article summarizes the videos that combine a few digitally drawn elements with real shots.

Compared to pure drawing sequences, videos are more heterogeneous and present certain technical imperfections, such as image definition or camera stability.

singular shapes (4 mn 54 s)

meteors 2 (5 mn 19 s)

the sun behind the trees ... and the clouds (8 mn 50 s)

waves at night ... waves during the day (6 mn 24 s)

the sun behind the trees (4 mn 10 s)

au fil de l'eau 2 (5 mn 1 s)

a red ray, the moon ... and other lights (3 mn 21 s)

a red ray ... and the moon (6 mn 52 s)

satin waves (2 mn 58 s)

les ombres 2 (9 mn 33 s)

diagonal? horizontal? (5 min 17 sec)

rocks (8 mn 57 s)

whirling, undulating, quivering (5 mn 31 s)

of all colors 4 (fabrics) (5 mn 44 s)

a reef emerges (3 mn 40 s)

water lines (6 mn 38 s)

efflorescence (8 mn 3 s)

ribbons (2 mn 44 s)

the shadows (9 mn 33 s)

the light was ... and the water caught fire (8 mn 59 s)

tracks on the snow (6 mn 47 s)

speed (7 mn 3 s)

on the surface (6 mn 25 s)

ebb and flow (7 mn 55 s)

pointillism (8 mn 15 s)

dunes (8 mn 25 s)

where parallels meet (11 mn 33 s)

leeward (7 mn 21 s)

sea ice (11 mn 29 s)

sharp edges (11 mn 15 s)

as the water flows (12 mn 31 s)

mist (8 mn 20 s)

ice pack (11 mn 27 s)

grey sea, yellow sea (2 mn 38 s)

curves (3 mn 12 s)

blue sands, yellow sands (7 mn 36 s)

cumbre vieja (6 mn 38 s)

why a black triangle? (three linked movements, 14 mn 33 s)

a certain fluidity ... (3 mn 28 s)

  More clouds ... (4 mn 31 s)
 
 
  wakes and trails (8 mn 05 s)

  elements, over the course of the versions (1 mn 51 s, 2 mn 43 s, 5 mn 38 s)
 

water, always, in all its states... (7 mn 37 s)

 
 road, salt and water (12 min 42 sec)
 
  (ant)arctic (5 min 28 sec)
 
  Arctic (2 min 47 sec)
 
 

meteors 2

 in videos

Remember that a meteor is a perceptible phenomenon in the atmosphere or on the surface of the globe, which may consist of a watery, gaseous, electrical or optical manifestation.

 

 

meteors 2

 in drawings

During rehearsals for the ceremony paying tribute to the victims of the November 13, 2015 attack, beams of light were projected from the forecourt of Saint-Gervais church into the clouds of the Parisian sky. The result was a stunning display of white northern lights over the Luxembourg Gardens.

The images filmed on this occasion are used in the animated graphic sequence.

 

six rectangles

 in videos

Three sequences based on six moving rectangles.

The first with only six rectangles coloured in different ways:

The second, with five dark blue rectangles and one red rectangle, against a background of the sun on the horizon:

The third, with six coloured rectangles on a full moon background:

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