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Friday Favorite: Armelle Caron

5/20/2011

23 Comments

 
This Friday’s Feature artist is Armelle Caron!
I love the way French artist Armelle Caron takes maps of cities and reorganizes the individual blocks into ordered rows!  This process transforms chaotic cities into systematic assemblages of shapes.
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Berlin
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Istanbul
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New York
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Paris
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The World
In this work, Armelle Caron gives our eyes a new world map which has been dismantled, disassembled, then carefully realigned.  

Check out Armelle's website to see even more cities!

TGIF!
Mary
23 Comments
Kala
5/20/2011 02:05:32 am

Wow, beautiful, what a unique and different way of looking at maps:)

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Anneke Wijers link
5/20/2011 02:48:49 am

Hi Mary,
Thank you so much for your nice comment.
I like the (pieces of) maps on your blog.
I started following you on networked blogs.
Greetings, Anneke

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katerina link
5/20/2011 03:28:15 am

Hello Mary!!
Thank you for visiting my blog :)
I'm very happy meeting interesting artists and I'm looking forward seeing your art!!!
Wish you a wonderful weekend!!!

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Beth link
5/20/2011 03:48:07 am

Hi Mary, thanks so much for dropping by my blog and leaving me a comment - I do love comments! I am following your blog now as well and want to thank you for sharing this most interesting view on maps! Also, for the list of films on artists, adding many of them to my list of "to watch" as we speak!
Have a fabulous weekend,
Beth P

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Erin link
5/20/2011 04:33:23 am

Whoa - that's awesome! Love this feature - thanks for sharing, Mary!

:) :) Erin

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Brandy link
5/20/2011 04:36:59 am

These are so neat! I'm off to investigate these pieces more! :)

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Roanne link
5/20/2011 05:23:29 am

How graphic - love it!

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Terri Morse link
5/20/2011 05:40:10 am

The rearranged pieces look like an ancient pictorial language such as hieroglyphics. Very cool!

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Victoria Chang link
5/20/2011 05:40:38 am

Very interesting! I love the world map one, and the Berlin map kind of reminds me of a leaf skeleton!

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Diane Salter link
5/20/2011 05:43:33 am

Hi Mary--Great Blog!! Thanks so much for visiting mine, and I really LOVE the post you have about the movies with the different artists--I LOVE these types of movies--time to visit my Netflix page!!

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Caatje link
5/20/2011 07:29:45 am

thank you so much for your nice words on my blog. Yours seems fascinating. I love how you feature different artists too. I will defenitely check back!

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Debs
5/20/2011 08:11:55 am

I prefer the randomness of the actual map.

However, the line format looks like a DNA pattern for the city!

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Dale Parker link
5/20/2011 08:43:53 am

Mary,
Thank you for visiting my blog. You are probably my first new visitor in a while. Love your work. I have always been interested in looking at maps. I am one of the weird people that will sit and look at an atlas for hours. About 30 years ago my father had a small plane he would fly just for fun. When I would go up with him I'd enjoy looking down at all the patterns I would see in the land below. I always thought that would make an interesting series of paintings.

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Barbara link
5/20/2011 03:12:08 pm



I like it too, but OMG, how long it must take!

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Julia Dunnit link
5/20/2011 07:44:29 pm

How nice of you to visit my blog Mary, I've enjoyed a long browse through yours I must say..the list of films is very inspiring, I've only seen a couple! Armelle's work is really interesting - I must dig a little deeper - my first thought was that it's like she's created a new language, after all, internationally we must share some map iconography?!

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sherry goodloe link
5/21/2011 02:52:53 am

Very cool! And you know what ELSE is very cool???? You are a runner-up of my recent blog Give-Away. Yep, you sure are. Stop by and see :) You just need to send me your snail mail address so I can get you prize mailed to you.

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Peggy B link
5/21/2011 03:22:06 pm

Hi Mary..Stopped by to see what you are up to. And it looks like we are on the same wave length. I recently spent the day cutting up my old Nat. Geo. maps into sizes for various mediums. Such fun..now I have to work with them. Your use of maps is very intriguing.
And thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment!

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Ann's Art @ Studiohyde link
5/21/2011 11:06:27 pm

Hi Mary, What an interesting post and what a different way to deal with maps!

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Debbie link
5/22/2011 03:43:16 am

such an interesting and original idea! I also checked out your movie reviews and some of your art and liked what I see! Thanks for your comments and for following me!

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danielle
5/22/2011 02:16:13 pm

Mary, thank you so much for following my new blog and your kind words!
Danielle

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Megan Kissman link
5/22/2011 02:46:16 pm

Hi, Mary- What a fantastic post. I love the creativity of dissecting maps, you get a whole new perspective/ appreciation of the shapes that actually make up the city/location. Thanks for following me on my blog and the sweet comment! Much appreciated! I've become a follower to your blog too!

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Cynthia link
5/22/2011 04:15:21 pm

Love this work and the idea. Thanks for posting it. Also, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment and mentioning miss katie. Love her portraits. As soon as I sign up for facebook will definitely follow your blog. In the midst of moving, so computer time is limited.

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Szalonaisa link
5/22/2011 09:21:23 pm

Hi :) Thank You for visiting my blog :) That was very nice :)
Wow, people can do amazing things with maps. Good to know :)

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