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Rouleur Conversations: Art Cycle

Rouleur editor Edward Pickering and photojournalist James Startt discuss Art Cycle, the ongoing series in Rouleur magazine which explores the connection between cycling and art. They talk about a few of the works that have featured so far, and also talk about their own interest in art.


Works discussed in depth:


Loisirs: hommage à Louis David by Fernand Léger: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/cAzzyo


Hyères, France by Henri Cartier-Bresson: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286639


James's photograph of the Paris-Nice peloton and wind turbines, Special Merit winner at the World Sports Press Photography Awards: http://jamesstartt.com/cycling/xraehf6dajxhcwgllklui6d2j4ujxt


Ciclista by Salvo: https://i-ac.eu/fr/expositions/24_in-situ/1983/183_SALVO


Restaurant at Bougival by Maurice de Vlaminck: https://galleryintell.com/artex/restaurant-de-la-machine-bougival-maurice-de-vlaminck/


And Ed and James's recommendations:


At the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/61128/at-the-moulin-rouge


Number 1, 1950 by Jackson Pollock: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.55819.html


The Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp: https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/54149


Waterlilies by Claude Monet: https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en/node/197502


Box Hill Road River by Richard Long: http://www.richardlong.org/index.html

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