Jean Metzinger - Jean Metzinger Jean Metzinger (1883-1956) was a French painter. Intially he was influenced by fauvism and impressionism but since 1908 he was associated with cubism. He was a member of the Section d'Or artistic group. Together with A. Gleizes he wrote Du Cubisme in 1912. In the later phase of his career he moved away from cubism towards realism but retained some elements of cubistic style..
Francis Picabia - he came under the influence of the Cubists and the Section d'Or. In 1911-1912 he joined the Puteaux Group, which met at the studio of Jacques Villon in the village of the same name. Some of the groups members were Apollinaire, Albert Gleizes, Roger de La Fresnaye, Fernand Leger, Jean Metzinger. This involvement resulted in the founding of the Golden Section (Section d'Or). Francis Picabia was also on friendly terms with the Dadist artist Marcel Duchamp. From 1913 to 1915 Picabia traveled to New York City several times and took active part in the avant-garde movements, introducing Modern art to America. Later, in 1916, he turned up in Barcelona where he started his well known Dadaist periodical 391. In the periodical he published his first "Mechanical Drawings". He continued with this.
Cubism - painted or often pasted onto the canvas. The Cubism movement, born in the art community of Montmartre and then greatly expanded by the gathering of artists in Montparnasse, was promoted by art dealer Henry Kahnweiler. It became popular so quickly that by 1910 critics were referring to a "Cubist school" of artists influenced by Braque and Picasso. However, many other artists who thought of themselves as 'cubists' went in directions very different from Braque and Picasso, who themselves went through several distinct phases before 1920. Best known cubist artists were: Georges Braque Juan Gris Fernand Leger Jacques Lipchitz Francis Picabia Pablo Picasso Louis Marcoussis Jean Metzinger Marie Vassilieff There were also critics (Andre Salamon, Guillaume Apollinaire), poets (Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy) and following Jacques Lipchitz, other sculptors such as Raymond Duchamp-Villon.
Puteaux Group - 1911. Some members of the Puteaux Group were: Guillaume Apollinaire - (1880-1918), Italian Robert Delaunay - (1885-1941), French Marcel Duchamp - (1887-1968), French Raymond Duchamp-Villon - (1876-1918), French Roger de la Fresnaye - (1885-1925), French Albert Gleizes - (1881-1952), French Frantisek Kupka - (1871-1957), Czech Fernand Leger - (1881-1945), French Louis Marcoussis - (1878-1941), Polish Jean Metzinger - (1883-1956), French Francis Picabia - (1879-1953), French/Spanish Jacques Villon - (1875-1963), French.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (November 2, 1699 - December 6, 1779) is considered by some to be the greatest of the 18th-century French painters. He is known for his beautifully textured still lifes as well as his sensitive and touching genre paintings. He was born, lived and died in Paris. Simple, even stark, but treasured paintings of common household items (Still Life with a Smoker's Box) and an uncanny ability to portray children's innocence in a nonsentimental manner (Boy with a Top) makes his paintings universal across time. He was the son of a cabinetmaker, and though largely self-taught, he was greatly influenced by the realism and subject matter of the 17th-century Low Country masters. His early support came from patrons in the French aristocracy, including.
Jean Cocteau - Jean Cocteau French literature > Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. Born Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau, at Maisons-Laffitte, France, a small town near Paris. His versatility, unconventionality, and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Despite his achievements in virtually all literary and artistic fields, Cocteau insisted that he was primarily a poet and that all his work was poetry. As a leading member of the surrealist movement, he had great influence on the work of others, including the group of composer friends in Montparnasse known as Les Six. On the sunny afternoon of August 12, 1916, Pablo Picasso and his new girlfriend, the fashion model Pquerette, Max Jacob, Ortiz de Zarate,.
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) was an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a Puerto Rican and his father of Haitian origin. He had started as a street artist painting graffiti art and then he became a very popular and successful avant-garde artist. His style was very original - nervous, fierce and energetic. Basquiat´s career divides into three broad though overlapping phases: In the earliest, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, most often depicting skeletal figures and mask-like faces that signal his obsession with mortality, and imagery derived from his street existence, such as automobiles, buildings, police, children's sidewalk, games and graffiti. A middle period from late 1982 to 1985 features multipanel paintings and individual.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer. Born in Geneva, Switzerland , and died in Ermenonville (28 miles northeast of Paris). His mother died at his birth and his father abandoned him as a child. Rousseau contended that man is essentially good, a "noble savage" when in the state of nature (the state of all the "other animals", and the condition humankind was in before the creation of civilization and society), and that good people are made unhappy and corrupted by their experiences in society. He viewed society as "artificial" and "corrupt" and held that the furthering of society results in the continuing unhappiness of humankind. Rousseau's essay, "Discourse on the.
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718 - 1793), a French Jesuit missionary, was born at Toulon in February 1718. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China. He soon won the confidence of the emperor Qianlong and spent the remainder of his life at Beijing, where he died October 9, 1793. He used a Chinese name (錢德明) while he was in China. Amiot made good use of the advantages which his situation afforded, and his works did more than any before to make known to the Western world the thought and life of the Far East. His Dictionnaire tatare-mantchou-français (Paris, 1789) was a work of great value, the language having been previously quite.
Jean-Jacques Ampère - Jean-Jacques Ampère Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800-1864), French philologist and man of letters The only son of Andre Marie Ampere was born at Lyons, France on August 12, 1800. He studied the folk-songs and popular poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in northern Europe. Returning to France in 1830, he delivered a series of lectures on Scandinavian and early German poetry at the Athenaeum in Marseilles. The first of these was printed as De l'Histoire de la poésie (1830), and was practically the first introduction of the French public to the Scandinavian and German epics. Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France. A journey in northern Africa (1841) was followed.
Jean Destrehan Roger - Jean Destrehan Roger Jean Roger was a flight attendant on American Airlines flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. A resident of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, she was survived by her parents and her elder brother. Her father is now leading a campaign for lethal weapons in every cockpit as well as pepper spray, mace, or stun guns for every flight attendant. She was killed at age 24 in the crash. Tributes and Comments See September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties..
Jean-François Millet - Jean-François Millet Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. He is noted especially for his scenes of peasant farmers. Millet was born in Gruchy, Normandy and moved to Paris in 1838. He received his academic schooling with Paul Dumouchel, and with Jérome Langlois in Cherbourg. After 1840 he turned away from the official fashion style and came under the influence of Honoré Daumier. In 1849 he withdraw to Barbizon to apply himself to painting many often poetic peasant scenes. His work, such as The Gleaners (1848), depicting the poorest of peasant women stooping in the fields to glean the leftovers from the harvested field, is a powerful and timeless.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Jean-Paul Sartre zh-cn:让·保罗·萨特 Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, novelist and critic. His longtime companion was Simone de Beauvoir, whom he met at the École Normale Supérieure in 1929. There were two main periods in his career. The first period was defined by his work Being and Nothingness. He believed in the fundamental freedom of human beings and reflected on what he saw as the unbearable nature of that freedom. In the second major period in his career, Sartre was known as a politically engaged intellectual. He embraced Communism, though he never officially joined the Communist party. Sartre spent much of his life attempting to reconcile his existentialist ideas, which claimed that one must self-determine one's existence, with.
Jean Richard - Jean Richard Jean Richard is a famous French actor. He was born April 18, 1921, in the town of Bessines, France and began his career as a caricaturist before acting in comedy films. Although he played a part in more than 80 movies, it was his TV role as Maigret that made him famous. He portrayed the famous inspector character from Georges Simenon's novels for over 20 years. He also created the well-known Jean Richard Circus. He died on December 12, 2001, due to complications from cancer..
Jean Grey - Jean Grey Jean Grey is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. She has used the code names Marvel Girl and Phoenix during her career, and is a member of the X-Men. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, she first appeared in X-Men #1 (1963). Grey is a mutant born with the abilities of telepathy and telekinesis. History As a teenager, she began attending Professor Charles Xavier's "school for gifted youngsters" and joined the X-Men under the name of Marvel Girl. During her tenure there, she fell in love with Cyclops. Following a mission in space, Grey attempted to pilot a shuttle back to Earth during one of the worst solar storms in history. The shuttle was unshielded and Grey would have died.
Jean Reno - Jean Reno Jean Reno is a French actor, born: July 30, 1948, Casablanca, Morocco to Spanish parents. Real name: Juan Moreno. Jean Reno's career started in French films. He appeared in many of Luc Besson's films, two of which brought huge success for him as well: The Big Blue (1988) and Léon (1994). He played in the American movies French Kiss (1995) with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline, Mission: Impossible (1996) with Tom Cruise, Ronin (1998) with Robert De Niro, while not neglecting French productions either, e.g.: The Visitors (1993) and The Crimson Rivers (2000). Other films: Roseanna's Grave (1997) Godzilla (1998) Tripwire (1999) RollerBall (2002).
Jean-Claude Killy - Jean-Claude Killy Jean-Claude Killy (born August 30, 1943) is a French alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion. Killy won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with 3 gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, in the slalom, giant slalom and downhill events. Previously, Killy was a World Cup champion in 1967 and 1968. Jean-Claude Killy had also short career as a racing driver between 1967 and 1970. Killy also served as co-president of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France..
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable (1745-1813) was the first non-native settler in the area which is now Chicago, Illinois. He was long ignored by historians, partly because he was a Haitian and not white, and partly because the early histories were written by the friends and descendants of John Kinzie, to whom du Sable sold his house in 1800. Du Sable built his first house in the 1770s, thirty years before Fort Dearborn was established on the banks of the Chicago River. By the time he sold to Kinzie's frontman, Jean LeLime, his property included a house, two barns, a horsemill, a bakehouse, a poultry house, a dairy and a smokehouse. The interior was richly appointed as well. Du Sable married the.
Jean Michel Jarre - Jean Michel Jarre Jean Michel Jarre is a French composer of electronic music. He had hits with Oxygene and Equinoxe. He is the son of Maurice Jarre, a composer of film music, who has written the scores to such films as Lawrence Of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago, among many others. He is well-known for staging spectacular outdoor concerts of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks. One of his albums, Musique pour supermarchés had a print run on only a single copy, which was auctioned to raise money for French artists. In 1986 he worked with NASA; astronaut Ronald McNair was to play the saxophone part of Jarre's piece Rendez-Vous VI while in orbit on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. It was to have been.
Jean-Paul Belmondo - Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Belmondo (born April 9, 1933) is a French actor, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle (aka Breathless) (1960), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave. With L'homme de Rio (aka That Man From Rio) (1965) he started to switch to commercial mainstream productions, mainly comedies and action films. Films include (actor): A bout de souffle (1960) L'homme de Rio (1965) L'as des as Le magnifique La sirene du Mississippi See Also Cinema of France.
