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Aïcha Goblet
Aïcha Goblet (born Madeleine Julie Gobelet) (28 February 1894 - 27 June 1972) was a French Model (art), artists' model and dancer, a figure of the Années folles in 1920s Paris. Early life Madeleine Julie Gobelet was born on 28 February 1894 at Renescure, a Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department in northern France. Her twin brother Henri was born a few hours before her. They were the children of Marthe Joseph Calin and Jules Améry Gobelet. Their father had died in Brazil on 1 September 1893, whilst their mother was pregnant. Their mother travelled back to France a month before the twins' birth. Both parents came from Renescure, and were a domestic servant and day labourer when they married in 1880. Madeleine had an older brother, Jules Charles and two sisters, Marie Antoinette and Marie Julienne, born in 1885 and 1887 in Clairmarais in the Pas-de-Calais. In 1911, Madeleine settled with her mother and older sister in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Model (art)
An art model is a person who poses, often nude, for visual artists as part of the creative process, providing a reference for the human body in a work of art. As an occupation, modeling requires the often strenuous ' physical work' of holding poses for the required length of time, the 'aesthetic work' of performing a variety of interesting poses, and the ' emotional work' of maintaining a socially ambiguous role. While the role of nude models is well-established as a necessary part of artistic practice, public nudity remains transgressive, and models may be vulnerable to stigmatization or exploitation. Family and friends may pose for artists, in particular for works with costumed figures. Much of the public perception of art models and their role in the production of artworks is based upon mythology, the conflation of art modeling with fashion modeling or erotic performances, and representations of art models in popular media. One of the perennial tropes is that in addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Dôme Café
Le Dôme Café () or Café du Dôme is a restaurant in Montparnasse, Paris that first opened in . Based on the example established by La Closerie des Lilas (created in 1847) and followed by Café de la Rotonde (created in 1911), Le Select (created in 1925), and La Coupole (Paris), La Coupole (created in 1927), Le Dôme was renowned as an intellectual gathering place for artists and writers during the interwar period. Le Dôme created and disseminated gossip and provided message exchanges and an 'over the table' market that dealt in artistic and literary futures. It was frequented by painters and sculptors of the School of Paris as well as writers, poets, models, art connoisseurs and dealers. Le Dôme later became the gathering place of the American literary colony and became a focal point for artists residing in Paris's Rive Gauche, Left Bank. A poor artist used to be able to get a Saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for $1. Today, it is a top fish restaurant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri-René Lenormand
Henri-René Lenormand (3 May 1882 - 16 February 1951) was a French playwright. He was born on 3 May 1882 in Paris. His plays, steeped in symbolism, were recognized for their explorations of subconscious motivation, deeply reflecting the influence of the theories of Sigmund Freud. He was the son of a composer, René Lenormand, and was educated at the University of Paris. When Lenormand died on 16 February 1951 in Paris, he was survived by his wife, Dutch actress Marie Kalff Marie Kalff (born Johanna Maria Kalff; 29 July 1874 – 19 October 1959), was a Dutch-born actress, based in Paris. Early life Kalff was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Antonius Kalff and Ellegonda Duranda Rutgers van der Loeff. Her father .... Bibliography *''Le Cachet Rouge'' (1900) *''La Grande Mort'' (1905) *''Au Désert'' (1905) *''Le Réveil de l'instinct'' (1908) *''Les Possédés'' (1909) *''Terres Chaudes'' (1913) *''Les Ratés'' (1920) *''Les Mangeurs de Rêves'' (1922) *''Mixture'' (1927) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habib Benglia
Habib Benglia (25 August 1895 – 2 December 1960) was a French film actor. He was the first French-African actor to land major roles in both cinema (he acted in Renoir and Pujol movies among others) and theater (performing in over 100 plays), having his first successes in the 1920s. Early life Habib Benglia was born on 25 August 1895 in Oran, Algeria to caravaniers parents originally from French Sudan (now Mali), he spent his childhood in Timbuktu. He travelled with his parents to mainland France in 1912 to deliver camels to the Jardin d'Acclimatation, where the colonial exhibition ‘Les Nègres’ was being held in 1912. Career Benglia decided to stay in France and began his career in 1913, in both theatre and film, after meeting the actress and dancer Régine Flory, who introduced him to Cora Laparcerie, director of the Théâtre de la Renaissance. Mobilised during the First World War, Benglia then joined Firmin Gémier's theatre company, which became the Théâtre Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Baty
Gaston Baty (; 26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. He was born in Pélussin, Loire, France. Career In 1921, Baty formed his own company ''Les Compagnons de la Chimère'' [The Companions of the Chimera],:157 which mounted productions in a variety of Parisian theatres in the 1920s and 30s.:2 He was also a member of ''Le Cartel des Quatre'' [The Cartel of Four], a group of four directors in Paris who offered an alternative to both "academic and commercial theatre".:178 His stage adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's ''Madame Bovary'' was presented in an English translation on Broadway theatre, Broadway in 1937. Constance Cummings played the title role. Baty is also the author of a play entitled ''Dulcinea'', which has been filmed twice and produced on television in 1989. It is an original play that takes its inspiration from Miguel de Cervantes's great novel ''Don Quixote'' and uses some of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doan Bui
Doan Bui is a French journalist born in Le Mans. She received the prix Albert-Londres 2013 for her report ''Les Fantômes du fleuve'' on migrants trying to penetrate Europe in Greece through Turkey, published by ''Nouvel Observateur''. In 2016, she was awarded the prix Amerigo Vespucci for her work ''Le Silence de mon père'' (Éditions L'Iconoclaste). Publications *2002: ''Milliardaires d'un jour : Splendeurs et misères de la nouvelle économie'', with Grégoire Biseau, Paris, Éditions Grasset and Fasquelle, 373 p. *2009: ''Les Affameurs : voyage au cœur de la planète de la faim'', Paris, , 360 p. *2010: ''Ils sont devenus français'', with Isabelle Monnin, Paris, Éditions JC Lattès, series "Essais et documents", 303 p. *2011: ''Pour une terre solidaire'', with Jean-Paul Rivière and all, Paris, éditions , 240 p. *2016: ''Le Silence de mon père'', Paris, L'Iconoclaste, 272 p. *2022: ''La Tour'', Paris, Grasset, 352 p. Television * 2014–2015: ', historical TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Coupole (Paris)
La Coupole is a famous brasserie in Montparnasse in Paris. It was opened on December 20, 1927 by Ernest Fraux and René Lafon during the Roaring Twenties when Montparnasse housed a large artistic and literary community – expatriates and members of the Lost Generation. They decorated the place in the contemporary art deco style. Artists of the School of Paris and intellectuals frequented the brasserie in the interwar period. The La Coupole Dance Hall, in the basement, opened on December 24, 1928 and is where musicians performed. Filiberto Rico's Rico's Créole Band (1910-1976) was the main orchestra of La Coupole, playing rumba, bolero, guaracha, samba and other Baião (music), baião until the 1960s. Among the first artists and intellectuals to adopt La Coupole as their regular haunt were Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, Joséphine Baker, Man Ray, Georges Braque and Brassaï. Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet met there in 1928. In the 1930s, aficionados of La Coupole were Pablo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moïse Kisling
Moïse Kisling (born Mojżesz Kisling; 22 January 1891 – 29 April 1953) was a Polish-born French painter. Born in Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary, to Jews, Jewish parents, Kisling studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts. He left for Paris in 1910 at the age of 19. After moving to Montmartre, Kisling became a member of the Parisian avant-garde known also as the School of Paris, and developed close professional relationships with painters Amedeo Modigliani and Jules Pascin, among others. Kisling gained recognition for portraying the female form and completed numerous Nude (art), nudes and Portrait, portraits during his career. He became a French nationality law, French national in 1924, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I. In 1940, despite being 49, Kisling rejoined the army for World War II but moved to the United States following the French Army's surrender and the impending The Holocaust, threat to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuguharu Foujita
was a Japanese–French painter. After having studied Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita traveled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern art scene of the Montparnasse neighborhood and developed an eclectic style that borrowed from both Japanese and European artistic traditions. With his unusual fashion and distinctive figurative style, Foujita reached the height of his fame in 1920s Paris. His watercolor and oil works of nudes, still lifes, and self-portraits were a commercial success and he became a notable figure in the Parisian art scene. Foujita spent three years voyaging through South and North America before returning to Japan in 1933, documenting his observations in sketches and paintings. Upon his return home, Foujita became an official war artist during World War II, illustrating battle scenes to raise the morale of the Japanese troops and citizens. His oil paintings won him acclaim during the war, but the public's view of him turned negative in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculpture, sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. The intense colourism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauvism, Fauves (French language, French for "wild beasts"). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Ray
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American naturalized French visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealism, Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was a photography innovator as well as a fashion photography, fashion and portrait photographer, and is noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself. Biography Background and early life During his career, Man Ray allowed few details of his early life or family background to be known to the public. He even refused to acknowledge that he ever had a name other than Man Ray,Neil Baldwin (writer), Baldwin, Neil. ''Man Ray: American Artist''; Da Capo Press; (1988, 2000) and his 1963 autobiography ''Self-Portrait'' contains few dates. Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Vallotton
Félix Édouard Vallotton (; December 28, 1865December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as '. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style. His earliest paintings were influenced by Hans Holbein the Younger, Holbein and Ingres. He developed a simpler style during his association with Les Nabis during the 1890s, and produced woodcuts which brought him international recognition. Characterized by broad masses of black and white with minimal detail, they include street scenes, bathers, portraits, and a series of ten interiors titled ''Intimités (Intimacies)'' that portray charged domestic encounters between men and women. He produced few prints after 1901, and concentrated instead on painting. His later paintings include highly finished portraits and nudes, and landscapes painted from memo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
