Allart's Yellow Horse

The yellow horse by allart patrice allart, a must-have artist for any seventies/retro vintage interior dimension: 70 X 90 cm number: 879.04 patrice allard, a french artist born in 1945, is renowned for his paintings and tapestries. He studied and collaborated with victor vasarely from 1967 to 1980. Allard's experimentation with kinetic tapestries and optical textile art took off in the 1970s. The work presented is - a cubist-inspired horse - allows us to appreciate allard's mastery. It is one of the first embroidered figurative works he made, representing the horse's body not in a mimetic way, but by using different geometric shapes - sets without perspective - to multiply the viewing angles of the subject on a flat surface. Curves appear in dialogue with simple, pointed shapes borrowed not from the reality of vision but from that of design.