It has been some time since I really loved a Mouton label, but the 2015 by the German artist Gerard Richter is pretty special. Just announced by Mouton, I already have a couple of bottles coming; now I know they will be pretty.
I don’t know anything about art, I was hoping Alfert would weigh in. It does have a certain quality, I must say.
I’m not sure but I think my daughter did the 2006 label.
Thanks for posting the link.
Saw this, was hoping for a candle or a squeegee painting…
If you suspect your daughter draws like Lucien Freud, I highly recommend checking out his other work juuuuust to be sure. ![[snort.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/b/bdc3944606213c4dca6c1169cf0a166c8bc4f8c9.gif "snort.gif"){kind=small}
And yeah, thank you for that link – I hadn’t seen all their labels in one place before. That’s a terrific gallery. And I love the 2015 label.
Like it
Ah , so that’s why people buy Mouton!
Don’t care for it. Consider the Richter vs the image I link to below:
The difference? One is a painting by a world renowned artist. The other is a can of unstirred paint.
I don’t understand (or care for) Richter’s color palate, there’s no dicernable technique, and the painting doesn’t demand introspection, nor is it beautiful. I love what Mouton does with their labels (and my American plug – Imagery features artwork too; I recall one label designed by Sol Lewitt), but IMO, many of the previous labels are far more interesting and aesthetically pleasing.
As always YMMV.
beautiful. thx for sharing.
I’m with Corey on this one. Completely uninteresting to me.
I call things like I see them. That’s one hell of an ugly painting.
Thought it was your toilet bowl after last week’s Taco Tuesday.
Toliet humor. How incredibly droll. It’s amazing that the Domincan people are better known for their rapier wit.
I think this would make a great Mouton label (and it’s French!)
(False true color SPOT Satellite image of the Gibson Desert; I’ve got a 3’x3’ direct to film laser print of this image w/o the watermark . . .)
Well- I like it, but not especially …
(but I´m a musician, not a painting artist)
I suggest a POLL for everybodys favorite label (I guess there have to be 2 polls due to the limited # of choices …
BTW: I once also initiated “art” on wine labels:
http://www.pegau.com/crbst_47.html
You know Corey, people are gonna starting talking, but:
I agree with every point you made above.
And I love abstracts and abstract expressionism. His style does not appeal to me. Of course, art is very very subjective.
My favorites, in no particular order, except for the original 1924 Carlu label which is the greatest IMHO, are the following:
1955 - Braque - Awesome
1959 - Lippold
1957 - Masson
1960 - Villon
1961 - Matthieu
1962 - Matta
1966 - Alichinsky - very fun piece
1965 - Tanning - Love this one
1974 - Motherwell
1982 - Huston
1988 - Haring
1998 - Tamayo
Not a fan of the Sejourne (1986)?
It seems to me that one of the challenges that the artists faced, and which some obviously calculated better than others, is the difficulty of translating their artwork to a very small amount of real estate. My hunch is the Richter would work better in a larger scale; I doubt it would change my opinion of the piece, but it would certainly seem less compacted.
A few pieces that caught my eye:
2008 Xu Lei - I like the fact that he incorporates the symbol of the winery (the ram) and grapes in his label, which ties the artwork to the bottle. Yet despite being grounded, it also retains a surreal quality that immediately brought to mind the Haruki Murakami novel, “A Wild Sheep Chase”.
1997 Niki de Saint Phalle / 1990 Francis Bacon / 1990 Joan Miró - These labels strike me because the style is immediately identifiable; Saint Phalle with her bright colors and sense of movement, Bacon with his dark background and distorted body and Miró with his abstract shapes in primary colors accented with black. Importantly, none of the artists attempts to do too much, nor overthinks their assignment.
1993 Balthus - I don’t think that label would be approved in America, certainly not in today’s political climate. Looks uncomfortably like kiddie porn.
1982 John Huston - I didn’t realize the film director was also a painter. The style reminds me of a less busy version of Marc Chagall. I love the simplicity of this work and the joy of the ram.
Mouton actually had a blank label for the 1993 for shipping into countries like the U.S. The Balthus label is very polarizing.
I tend to prefer the labels that accentuated the ram.
Durant and Booth uses water marbleing for all thier labels. Here’s more info on the artist and process. Much cheaper than Mouton too. 