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Agnès Thurnauer
Agnès Thurnauer (born 1962) is a French-Swiss contemporary artist. Primarily a painter, she also works with a number of other media and techniques. Biography Agnès Thurnauer was born in 1962, in Paris, France, where she continues to live and work. She attended the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where she studied Film studies, cinema and video art. Notable work Big-Big et Bang-Bang (1995—1996) ''Big-Big et Bang-Bang'' are a series of abstract acrylic paintings in subtle colour tones on canvas created by Thurnauer between 1995 and 1996. The works were created with the canvases stapled to the wall. The paintings were only mounted on frames when complete, for the purposes of display and preservation. Portraits grandeur nature (2007—2009) In 2007, Thurnauer first exhibited her work ''Portraits grandeur nature'', a series of oversized Pin-back button, buttons (each 120 cm in diameter) in resin a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
