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    LES COCOTTES DE LA BELLE ÉPOQUE

    April 4, 2014 / 0 Comments

    Après la grande dépression de la fin des années 1880-90, le nouveau siècle ne pouvait être autre que sublime. L’air parisien est un concentré de cocottes, de folies, de fêtes, d’arts, de luxe presque ridicule… L’art de vivre est incarné par la capitale française qui apprête sa tenue, se recoiffe et bombe le torse pour la grande Exposition Universelle de 1900. Dans Gigi, Colette décrit avec merveille cette euphorie luxueuse qui devient presque hystérique : « Mme Alvarez eut un foie gras et six bouteilles de champagne, munificences sur lesquelles tonton Lachaille préleva sa part en s’invitant à diner. Gilberte, un peu grise, raconta pendant le repas les potins de son…

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    Can (and should) life truly imitate Art?

    January 3, 2013 / 5 Comments

    At first glance I thought this exhibition was about something else entirely – bodies covered in tattoos (to which I am entirely approving). But now that I am well informed, I’ve got some things to say. Are photographs art? Sure, sometimes, certainly not all the time, just have a look at my memory card. But are they Art, capital A, meant to be scrutinised, reviewed, and studied for centuries to come? I’m not so sure. Painting is an expression of one’s mind, heart, and imagination. The colours we interpret, the way things make us feel, whatever happens to be going through our heads at a particular moment in time. Paintings…

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    When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they’d ask ‘Did you do this?’. And I’d say, ‘No, you did.’

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