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Berbernest

Flat Fields

In the grammar of the Casablanca School · Grammar of the 1960s · Casablanca

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Casablanca · Grammar of the 1960s

Prodigi Classic Black frame corner photograph

Black · actual frame finishProdigi’s product photograph. Flat 20 mm face, 22 mm depth, with a snow-white mount.

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A Marrakech salon
Flat Fields

About this composition

Interlocking flat fields with crisp edges, derived from zellij geometry and deliberately not symmetrical. The school's argument was that the country already had a modernism in its craft and did not need to import one; painting the geometry flat rather than picturesquely is what that argument looks like.

Ochre, deep green, cream, black

Inspired by Moroccan modernism

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The artists of this movement are still in copyright and none of their paintings are reproduced here. What we take is the grammar — the flat fields, the hard edge, the refusal of the easel — the way a painter takes a manner without taking a picture.

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