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Tag Archives: Jean Cocteau
SURREALIST GRAPHIC ART—BIGGER THAN YOU THINK!
We’ve gotten together before, on this blog site, to mutually marvel at the impact of original vintage poster art with a Surrealist twist, as an ardent exponent of some of the most incisive reflections upon the subject and lifeline of … Continue reading
Posted in Avant-Garde Posters&Graphics, Current Events, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists, Surrealist Posters&Graphics
Tagged Arpad Elfer, Art Gallery of Ontario, contemporary film, contemporary issues, Jean Cocteau, Jonathan Glazer, Kazumasa Nagai, La Belle et la Bete, Rene Magritte, urbanity
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YANG FUDONG’S NEW WOMEN: COMMUNING WITH NEW FILMMAKING
Amidst all the buzz of anticipation about the Toronto Film Festival in September, something very quiet and very engaging has settled into the exhibition space at TIFF. Chinese visual artist and filmmaker, Yang Fudong, was commissioned by TIFF to develop … Continue reading
JEAN COCTEAU: AN ARTIST NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN
During the German Occupation of Paris, Jean Cocteau, assisted by his friend, Jean Marais, shook off a decade-long oblivion due to opium addiction, and wrote the script for Robert Bresson’s film, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1944/1945).
VALENTINES IN VINTAGE GRAPHICS
An old pop song runs, “Love is a many-splendored thing;” and we have the testimony of a vast array of graphic art to establish how varied loving relations can be. One of the more challenging but also. I think, more … Continue reading
PARIS, OF COURSE (First of a series on Paris, and other great cities)
Rue de l,arbre sec (Street of the Dry Tree), the site of the gallows in medieval Paris, and also the site of the once-glorious Art Nouveau department store, La Samaritaine, now shut down (just off the right foreground of the … Continue reading