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Bernard Dufour
Bernard Dufour (21 November 1922 – 21 July 2016) was a French painter. He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures. Life Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering. During the German Occupation, he was pressed into war labour. He was sent to Germany with Alain Robbe-Grillet and there they met Claude Ollier. In the winter of 1944–45, he went to the University of Heidelberg and studied Eugène Delacroix and Stéphane Mallarmé. After the war, he copied the works of Michelangelo and Tintoretto in the Louvre. His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Maeght in 1948, followed by exhibitions in the Jeanne Bucher Gallery between 1951 and 1953. Motivated by these successes, he soon signed an exclusive contract with art dealer Pierre Loeb. He collaborated with many writers, including René de Solier, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Georges Lambrichs, Paule Thévenin and Alain Jouffroy. In the later 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abstract Painting
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of Perspective (graphical), perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. The sources from which individual artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and reflected the social and intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time. Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Lambrichs
Georges Lambrichs (5 July 1917 – 9 February 1992) was a French writer, literary critic and editor. Life Labrichts was born in Brussels. After studying philosophy, he met Jean Paulhan in 1937 of whom he became a "companion of intellectual resistance". Paulhan made him a reader in March 1946 on behalf of the Éditions de Minuit, where Lambrichs had his first book published. Still at the Éditions de Minuit, he co-hosted with Paulhan the ''revue 84'', which Gaston Gallimard did not want and became literary director until 1955. At Minuit, he published among others François Augiéras, Pierre Klossowski, Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Michel Butor. After a brief stint at Grasset, Gaston Gallimard hired him in January 1959: first as director of series of contemporary literature with ''Jeune Prose'', which lasted from February 1959 to June 1962 and which brought out the first texts by Jacques Chessex and Jean-Loup Trassard. A veritable laboratory that seeks to distance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Belle Noiseuse
''La Belle Noiseuse'' (, ) is a 1991 drama film directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin and Emmanuelle Béart. Loosely adapted from the 1831 short story ''Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu'' (''The Unknown Masterpiece'') by Honoré de Balzac, and set in present-day France, it tells how a famous old artist is stimulated to come out of retirement and do one last painting of a beautiful young woman. The film won the Grand Prix at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Plot A young would-be artist Nicolas, with his partner Marianne, are introduced by the art dealer Porbus to the aged painter Frenhofer, inactive for many years, who lives in a grand château in the south of France with his young wife Liz. Conversations are desultory, until Porbus suggests that Frenhofer might like to paint the attractive Marianne, he thinks she may be what he needs to complete his last piece, abandoned ten years ago when Liz was his model. Nicolas okays the idea, but Marianne becomes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
