{"id":1015,"date":"2026-09-09T06:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:57:48","slug":"michel-seuphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"Michel Seuphor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A seminal personality within the twentieth-century avant-garde movement, the poet and theorist Michel Seuphor established the humanist and literary publication *The overview* in 1921, a platform dedicated to championing abstract art, modern music, and experimental visual expression. Throughout his career, he crossed paths with influential figures such as Mondrian, Gropius, Gabo, Moholy-Nagy, and Marinetti; furthermore, he managed the international section of the journal *l\u2019Esprit nouveau* and went on to organize the *Cercle et Carr\u00e9* art collective in 1930.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His artistic output was defined by a restricted medium: pen and ink on paper, occasionally accented with paper attachments he termed “dessins \u00e0 lacunes” [lacuna drawings]. By modulating the proximity of parallel lines, he cultivated a sophisticated tonal contrast of light and shadow, resulting in an intricate web of lines that birthed abstract compositions intended to suggest profound, internal realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.ftn-books.com<\/a> has several Seuphor items available. Among these an original signed print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A seminal personality within the twentieth-century avant-garde movement, the poet and theorist Michel Seuphor established the humanist and literary publication *The overview* in 1921, a platform dedicated to championing abstract art, modern music, and experimental visual expression. Throughout his career, he crossed paths with influential figures such as Mondrian, Gropius, Gabo, Moholy-Nagy, and Marinetti; furthermore, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ftn-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}