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Wed, Jan 19, 2022
About a ghost that haunts a work by French painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). This is Jeanne Duval, a black woman whose real name we do not know, muse and companion of the poet Charles Baudelaire. Erased from the painting by Courbet himself, Jeanne has returned to the surface as if the paint pigments could not support her erasure.
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Sun, Oct 9, 2022
The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is the author of a powerful body of work that is rooted in symbolism and expressionism. His most famous painting, "The Scream", painted in 1893, has become the symbol of existential anguish. He obsessively sought to express his most violent emotions in the face of death and love, bringing them together in a great whole, the "Frieze of Life". Nature, in perpetual movement, the bearer of vital momentum, helped him to exalt his anguish of living through its colors and undulating lines.
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Thu, Nov 24, 2022
The actress Maria Casarès and the writer Albert Camus have lived an intense passion that reveals their correspondence. From 1944, the year they met, until Camus' death in 1960, they exchanged more than 900 letters. These letters shed light on a free woman, incredibly modern, in love with truth and the absolute, who, throughout her life, was marked by the quest for her own identity and that of the theater. These letters also reveal the voice of a loving and fragile Albert Camus.
Thu, Apr 20, 2023
Nicknamed the "king of the crazies", Pierre Dac (1893-1975), the man behind the weekly magazine "L'Os à Moelle", was also a poet, self-styled philosopher. Resistance fighter. Today, his texts and thoughts continue to remain resolutely modern. All humorists carry within themselves a part of the heritage he left behind.