January 5, 2014

Louis Maistre

1862-1948

Louis Maistre in his workshop 1920

Great-grandfather of Christian Comte

Student of Magaud and Cabanel ,he is professor of the Art Schools of Marseille at 20 years.

Director of the Art Schools of Marseille in 1913.

Close friend of Ziem, Moutte, of Barret, of Monticelli, painter of scene of kind,

it is in the portrait that it gave the measurement of his genius.

Louis Maistre in his workshop (Oil on canvas 1881)

Black man painting by Louis Maistre

Louis Maistre - 4 self-portraits

Digital Reconstruction by Christian Comte

Genesis of a masterpiece

6 drawings by Louis Maistre

Painting by Louis Maistre

Digital Reconstruction by Christian Comte

January 4, 2014

Pablo Picasso by Christian Comte

Self-portrait Picasso (old)
Oil on canvas

Old Picasso by Christian Comte
(Sculpture en pierre et os)

2 expressions de Picasso utilisées pour le film

Picasso in a fiction

Digital reconstruction by Christian Comte

Guernica

Photographs of the painting

at various stages of realization by Dora Maar

Digital Reconstruction by Christian Comte

January 2, 2013

Jésus-Christ

Drawing Christian Comte

Le Saint-Suaire 3D

Descendant from Louis Maistre (1892-1948) and Paul Comte (1913-1939) both artists Christian Comte (1966) carves wood and molds clay in the hills of Provence. In 1996 Paul Ricard notices his sacred art work and purchases from made from olive tree wood to be a carved Christ exposed in « Ste Cécile des Embiers's chapell ».

Christ exposed in « Ste Cécile des Embiers's chapell »
(3 x 2 métres)

Carved Christ

4 sculpturs by Christian Comte

Digital Reconstruction by Christian Comte

January 1, 2014

L'Après-Midi d'un Faune

Vaslav Nijinsky photographed by Baron De Meyer

A movement from 3 photographs (1912)

Digital Reconstruction by Christian Comte

January 1, 2014

Ramana Maharshi

1879 - 1950

Rare footage Ramana

2 photographs of Ramana

Ramana - Shiva
Digital Reconstruction by Christian Comte

December 31, 2013

Alchemy

Mutus liber
1677

Mutus Liber or "Silent Book" is an alchemical document consisting or 15 plates without text.

Planche 2

Planche 8

Digital reconstruction by Christian Comte

December 30, 2013

Wood sculptures of Christian Comte in movement

"After studies of Art and ceramics Christian Comte takes part in many exhibitions.

In its first research, he deforms the bodies from a delirious point of view, compresses the space to dilate and give him a curve. He evolves then to a sculpture which is a dialogue with the world.

It is from now on the matter which speaks and teaches: old branchs, a shoe, a metal can become a sculpture, a drawing, a poem, a music…"

Jacques GINEPRO

Expert Sculptures 19ème et 20ème Siècles

Monaco

Dieu Pan

Faun

Digital Reconstruction by Christian Comte

December 30, 2013

Paul COMTE

1913 - 1939

Paul Comte painter

Grandfather of Christian Comte

He was 25 years old when he died

at the beginning of the war

Self-portrait

2 photographs - September 1937

Paul Comte and his son Bruno Comte

Digital reconstruction by Christian Comte

2 drawings by Paul Comte

Digital reconstruction by Christian Comte

December 29,2013

Reconstruction of the movement of Apollon of Praxiteles and his Vénus of Cnides

Which are qualities of a statue of Praxiteles?

The first is the flexibility. Thus known as the author of Amours, in connection with Aphrodite de Cnide. “The talent of the artist, he says, is so powerful whom the marble naturally so hard and so stiff is softened to train each one of its members”. (Jackie Pigeaud)

Apollon sauroctorue
(the killer of lizard)

Hermes and Dionisos

Aphrodite of Cnides

Digital reconstruction Christian Comte

Musique Trentemoller

December 28, 2013

Marilyn Monroe - Philip K.Dick

Philip K.Dick

With different narrative instruments, the author and the director start by determining what Eric Henriet invites “the point of precise divergence” from which the history changed. Thus, in the film of Lee, it is the incrustation of false stock-shot, color sepia, which plays this part. From the start, the question of credibility, with the eyes of the public concerned, is determining. It is necessary that this “point of divergence” is sufficiently consensual to be effective.

The Man in the high Castle, 1962

The Cannes Film Festival 2012 - Official poster of Marilyn Monroe?

Digital Reconstruction by Christian Comte

This photograph of a certain Marilyn Monroe, introduced as a famous star — whereas no one did not intend any to speak. Time out of joint, 1959 - Philip K.Dick

November 28, 2013

UK Vogue December 2013

Fantasia

John Galliano - Kate Moss

" One designer whose work has always been informed by a richness of imagination and history is John Galliano, who acts as a guest fashion editor this month with his favourite model Kate Moss (…)" Vogue December 2013

" The scene is set. I lean into Kate's ear.

« Can you keep a secret? » She is charged, the berry stains on her perfect mouth and like a butterfly she alights and hovers into the perfect position, feeling and finding her light.

Mahaaaaaaajhooooooooor shapes.

Then she leaves the set, looks through his camera, sizes up the set and mentally crops the picture.

I am now feeling so much love in this studio that it takes me back. Her only script is the dress she's wearing." John Galliano - Vogue December 2013