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Jean Cocteau lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of French Expressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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In 1947 Paul Morihien published a clandestine edition of Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet, featuring 29 very explicit erotic drawings by Cocteau. In recent years several albums of Cocteau's homoerotica have been available to the general public.
Jean Cocteau worked across almost every artistic discipline, exploring writing, painting and drawing, theatre and film, linking disparate forms of art making in explorations of myth, contemporary life, dream and sexual identity.
Apr 25, 2024 · Drawings by Jean Cocteau. Source: Wikiart Cocteau attended Lycée Condorcet during his teenage years. He struggled with academics considerably, only excelling in artistic subjects. He was subsequently expelled and received private lessons at home. He began to spend much of his time near the theatre, writing plays with his school friend René ...
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Jan 18, 2024 · Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (1889-1963) was a prince of bohème. A significant figure in the European art of the 20th century, Cocteau called himself a poet in the broadest sense of the word: a poet, a playwright, a filmmaker, and an artist. The history of 20th-century art cannot be imagined without Jean Cocteau.
By the 1920s Cocteau’s writings and drawings, which he had started making around 1917, played a key role in modernism’s return to classical themes. Like many other artists and poets during this time period, he demonstrated a renewed interest in Catholicism spearheaded by the philosopher Jacques Maritain.
Apr 17, 2024 · Jean Cocteau was first a poet, and framed everything he did with that discipline. His films like La Belle et la Bête (1945) and Orphée (1950) were “poésie cinématographique”; drawings,...
Title: Le Livre Blanc. Artist: Jean Cocteau (French, Maisons-Laffitte 1889–1963 Milly-la-Forêt) Published in: Paris. Date: 1930. Dimensions: Overall: 11 1/8 x 9 x 3/4 in. (28.3 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm) Classification: Books. Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1952. Accession Number: 52.546.14.
