François Morellet
A Life Dedicated to Systematic Vision François Charles Alexis Albert Morellet, born in Cholet, France, in 1926 and passing in his hometown in 2016, was a quietly revolutionary figure in the landscape of post-war abstract art. His journey wasn’t one of immediate artistic immersion; rather, it unfolded alongside a practical life as an industrialist from 1948 to 1975. This dual existence—the precision of manufacturing and design coupled with a burgeoning artistic sensibility—proved profoundly formative. It instilled in Morellet a unique approach: art not as spontaneous expression, but as the lo…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of François Morellet's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.