{"id":1512,"date":"2018-01-22T16:38:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucien-clergue.com\/tauromachie\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T11:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:29:45","slug":"the-bulls","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lucien-clergue.com\/en\/the-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2026my mother, having been born amidst the Yonnet bulls in the Faraman Hamlet near Salin de Giraud and my nurse, Madame Joyeuse, mother of a bullfighter, my entire childhood would seem to have urged me into the arena. My severe short-sightedness and thick glasses prevented me from getting too close to bulls \u2014 a good pretext to hide my fear\u2026<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Taking my camera with me was to take part in the show\u2026first the bull\u2019s death, then the celebration of great bullfighters like Ordonez, El Cordobes, Nimeno II, Paco Ojeda, to whom I dedicated books, and whose classic passes I tried to forget to find the share of mystery which stalks in the ring and which commits \u201cthe mad imprudence of showing itself\u201d to quote Cocteau. Then came the adaptation to the flamboyance of colour and finally the double exposures with religious paintings which were the equivalent of the votive offerings given to toreadors spared by the bull thanks to the legendary \u201cQuite du Christ\u201d which one finds in all the churches of Spain and even in Picasso\u2019s drawings\u2026<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I even made incursions into cinema with four films I made, of which the first was \u201cDrama of the Bull\u201d, from conversations with the bullfighter Victoriano Valencia. This short film won the Louis Lumi\u00e8re Prize and was chosen by Claude Lelouch to be shown as a prelude to his most famous film: \u201cA Man and a Woman\u201d.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I am happy and proud to present\u2026the result of my faithfulness to the myth that inhabits me and which plays out on this sand, basis of my work. On the sands of the beach Venus Aphrodite was born, those of the arena see the Minotaur hunted to death\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In Spanish SAND is ARENA!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Lucien Clergue\u00a0: 16\u00a0February 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026my mother, having been born amidst the Yonnet bulls in the Faraman Hamlet near Salin de Giraud and my nurse, Madame Joyeuse, mother of a bullfighter, my entire childhood would seem to have urged me into the arena. 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