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.

video summary

 in videos

In the posts following this one, each animated sequence is presented with a few sentences of commentary and some still illustrations.

However, visitors can directly access a specific video by clicking on the corresponding thumbnail below.

a sketch (1 mn 53 s)

dark matter (5 min 17 sec)

pointillism (8 mn 23 s)

in all colors 2 (4 mn 34 s)

dunes (8 mn 26 s)

circles and straight lines (5 mn 38 s)

where parallels meet (11 mn 33 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)

leeward (7 mn 21 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)

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)

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)

ice pack (11 mn 27 s)

grey sea, yellow sea (2 mn 38 s)

curves (3 mn 12 s)

lines (4 mn 15 s)

night (7 mn 36 s)

blue sands, yellow sands (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)

à la Prévert (6 mn 50 s)

hatching (7 mn 35 s)

Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (6 mn 31 s)

cumbre vieja (6 mn 38 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)

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

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

‎black! (2 mn 16s)

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

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)
 
  More clouds ... (4 mn 31 s)
 
 
  the sky comes to life over the water (8 mn 34 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)
 
towards the horizon (6 mn 54 s)
 
 on three patterns (5 min 33 sec)
 
 in red and black (10 min 24 sec)
 
 metamorphoses (4 mn 14 s)
 
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)
 
 (ant)arctic (5 min 28 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)
 
 The Green, finally (3 mn 35 s)
 
 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)
 
 Arctic (2 min 47 sec)
 
 in color (1 min 48 sec)
 
 In black and in color (1 min 57 sec)
 
 in black and white (1 min 58 sec)
 

dark matter

 in videos

A sequence based on the fixed compositions uploaded in September 2023. The material, very dark at the start, takes on some color in the last two movements.

 

 

 

 

pointillism

 in videos

A sequence obtained by digital processing of real shots. The images are processed to modify their appearance and merge them. However, it has not been possible to completely reduce the effects of camera instability during the shooting process.

first movement: entirely based on images of luminous drones flying in the night sky over the port of Abu Dhabi.

second movement: drone images are joined by images of birds flying over the port of Mumbai.

third movement: the birds are replaced by other drones, this time flying over Lake Lugano, along with a few other shots featuring clouds of dots.

 

pointillism

 in drawings

A snapshot of the sequence: by clicking on the thumbnail, you can access the corresponding actual shot, in its raw state before digital processing...

 

dunes

 in videos

Dunes in the desert around the Persian Gulf and, in the second movement, the elements of a digital composition presented in a recent article.

 

dunes

 in drawings

Here, rather than presenting snapshots of the animated sequence, we have chosen to exhibit five photos taken in the Gulf dunes and repeated in the last two movements of the sequence, in an aspect that makes some of them difficult to identify.

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