"the following season, in Autumn/Winter 2009. For her spring/summer 2011 collection ""Ceci n’est pas une chambre"", a title inspired by Rene Magritte’s ""Ceci n’est pas une pipe,"" she challenged the viewer by printing on her designs fragments of images borrowed from old issues of Architectural Digest and World of Interiors. As she worked with volume, depth and perspective, the clothes acquired an engaging three-dimensional quality. ""With digital printing you get that precision engineering where everything is marked around the body in a perfect way."" Her collections are now sold in over 200 fashion shops, including Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Barneys, Neiman"
"""La trahison des images"" (""The treachery of images""), by René Magritte, that is often referred to as ""This is not a pipe"". It contains an image of a pipe as well as the legend ""This is not a pipe,"" even though that was not meant to be its title. In this case, two different understandings of the artists’ intentions and the content depend on which title is chosen to go with it. Overall, random titles, other than the original, decrease understanding ratings, but do not necessarily alter the significance of aesthetic experience. Elaborative, as opposed to descriptive, titles are particularly"
"""perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves"" in a number of paintings including a famous work entitled ""The Treachery of Images"", which consists of a drawing of a pipe with the caption, ""Ceci n'est pas une pipe"" (""This is not a pipe""). In ""The Medium Is the Message"", Marshall McLuhan expanded this argument to electronic media. Media representations, especially on screens, are abstractions, or virtual ""extensions"" of what our sensory channels, bodies, thinking and feeling do for us in real life. This concept occurs in the discussion of exoteric and esoteric religions. Exoteric concepts are concepts which can be fully"
"Jean-Joseph Taillasson Jean-Joseph Taillasson (; 6 July 1745 – 11 November 1809) was a French history painter and portraitist, draftsman, and art critic. Taillasson was born at Blaye, near Bordeaux. His poem ""Le Danger des règles dans les Arts"" was noted with approval by the Danish visitor to Paris, Tønnes Christian Bruun-Neergaard, and an elegy ""Sur la Nuit"", he thought, seemed fit to soften the least sensitive heart. He matured his talent in the Paris ateliers of Joseph-Marie Vien (from 1764) and Nicolas Bernard Lépicié and, having won third place in the Prix de Rome competition, 1769, spent four years,"
"Troubadour"": ""Honors Rendered to Raphael on His Deathbed"" 1806 (Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio). ""Charles V Picking up Titian's Brush"" 1808; ""Anne Boleyn Condemned to Death"" ca. 1814 (Musée du Louvre); ""Aretino in the Studio of Titian"" ca 1822; ""Fra Lippo Lippi Enslaved in Tangiers, Painting a Portrait of His Captor"" ca 1819; Another major history painting by Bergeret is ""Marius Meditating on the Ruins of Carthage"". Other typical subjects are propagandistic allegories and representations of current events of the French Empire. Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret (30 January 1782, Bordeaux – 21 February 1863, Paris) was a French painter,"
"Le Fumeur Le Fumeur (en. ""The Smoker""), or Man with Pipe, is a Cubist painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. It has been suggested that the sitter depicted in the painting represents either Guillaume Apollinaire or Max Jacob. The work was exhibited in the spring of 1914 at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, Champ-de-Mars, March 1–April 30, 1914, no. 2289, Room 11. A photograph of ""Le Fumeur"" was published in Le Petit Comtois (""Au Salon des Indépendants, Les chefs-d'œuvre modernes""), 13 March 1914, for the occasion of the exhibition. In July 1914 the painting was exhibited in Berlin at"
"Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, ""La Blanchisseuse"", his early painting of"
"Garçon à la pipe Garçon à la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Period, soon after he settled in the Montmartre section of Paris, France. The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers. The painting was famously sold at a 2004 auction for $104 million, a price many art critics consider incongruous with the painting's actual artistic merit. Early preparations of this work involved positioning"
"of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, as well as a series of strange lithographs on fantastical themes customarily attached to the frenetic vein which certain artists exploited in this period. ""La Ronde du Sabbat"" by Louis Boulanger is the only icon of this poorly studied tendency. Louis Boulanger Louis Boulanger (11 March 1806, Vercelli, Piedmont - 5 March 1867, Dijon) was a French Romantic painter, lithographer and illustrator. He enrolled in 1821 at the École des beaux-arts where he attended the workshop of Guillaume Guillon Lethière and received a solid classical training. Next he made a présentation for the prix"
"Resurrection (Cecco del Caravaggio) The Resurrection by Cecco del Caravaggio, the Italian Baroque painter, is the only painting securely documented as his. Through the use of alternate strong lights and deep shadows the chiaroscuro highlights the vividness of the dramatic scene. One of Cecco's most notable works, the painting is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting depicts the moment of the resurrection as described in : The artwork is a large-scale painting intended for private devotion. It was commissioned in 1619 for Piero Guicciardini, the Tuscan ambassador to Rome, for his private chapel in"
"by European masters such as Gustave Courbet, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Jacques Villon, Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso. In 1923, Phillips purchased Pierre-Auguste Renoir's impressionist painting, ""Luncheon of the Boating Party"" (1880–81), the museum’s best-known work. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Phillips re-arranged his galleries in installations that were non-chronological and non-traditional, reflecting the relationships he saw between various artistic expressions. He presented visual connections—between past and present, between classical form and romantic expression—as dialogues on the walls of the museum. Giving equal focus to American"
"Passy, Bridges of Paris Passy, Bridges of Paris, also called Les ponts de Paris (Passy), or Paysage à Passy, is a painting created in 1912 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. The work was exhibited at the Salon de la Société Normande de Peinture Moderne, Rouen, 1912 (titled ""Passy""); the Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie, Paris, 1912 (titled ""Passy""); Manes Moderni Umeni, Vystava, Prague, 1914 (titled ""Paysage à Passy""); and Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, July, 1914. ""Passy"" was one of a small group of works chosen to be reproduced in the seminal treatise ""Du"
"the keystone that confirms the importance of reflecting on the relationship between morality and guilt. Likewise to that of the painting ""The Treachery of Images"" by René Magritte, Diderot wants to tell us that a person's behavior is not in itself moral or immoral. Morality is not universal and therefore it is not revealed either. This is not a story This is not a story (or ""This is not just a story""; French: Ceci n’est pas un conte) is a story by the French author Denis Diderot written in 1772. ""This is not a story"", ""Madame de La Carlière"" and"
"and dupes, but rather the brutal appearance in broad daylight of a coherent group [""ensemble homogène""] who did not claim to be displaying masterpieces but wanted to witness a fervent discipline, a new order. [...] On one side, the talk was all of the moderns and the negroes, on the other it was of the cathedrals and the solidity [""sureté""] of David and Ingres. (Albert Gleizes) Passy, Bridges of Paris Passy, Bridges of Paris, also called Les ponts de Paris (Passy), or Paysage à Passy, is a painting created in 1912 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes."
"Théodore Géricault Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is ""The Raft of the Medusa"". Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in the tradition of English sporting art by Carle Vernet and classical figure composition by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive temperament while recognizing his talent. Géricault soon left the classroom, choosing to study at the Louvre, where from 1810 to 1815 he copied"
"Marie Laurencin, Modigliani, Jean-Paul Laurens, Maurice Utrillo, Jacques Lipchitz, María Blanchard, Jean Metzinger and Louis Marcoussis; writers Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Jean Cocteau, Gustave Coquiot, Cremnitz (Maurice Chevrier), Paul Fort, André Warnod, Raymond Radiguet, and Gertrude Stein; actors Charles Dullin, Harry Baur, and Gaston Modot; and art dealers Ambroise Vollard, , Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and Berthe Weill. While residing at the Bateau-Lavoir Picasso painted works such as ""Garçon à la pipe"" (""Boy with a Pipe"") in 1905, and one of his most noted works, ""Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"" in 1907, considered by art historians as a proto-Cubist painting (the precursor of a"
"Jacques-Philippe Caresme Jacques-Philippe Caresme (1734 –96) was a French historical painter. Caresme was born in Paris in 1734. He was probably a pupil of Charles-Antoine Coypel, and was admitted into the Academy while still young, but expelled eight years later. In 1781, when a royalist, he composed an allegorical design in commemoration of the birth of the Dauphin, and in 1794, after he had become an ardent republican, he presented the Commune of Paris with a drawing representing Joseph Chalier, the tyrant of Lyons, going to execution: both of these were engraved. He also painted a large ""Nativity of the"
"sugar cubes and sliced lemon suggest that one of the liquors is absinthe, ""considered the 'cocaine' of the nineteenth century."" The overturned bottles, the cards strewn about the table and the abandonment of a pyramidal composition create a sense of disarray in the work. Claude Raguet Hirst Claude Raguet Hirst (born Claudine, 1855–1942) was an American painter of still lifes. She was the only woman of her era to gain acclaim using the ""trompe-l'œil"" (""fool the eye"") technique. Claudine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in November 1855, the eldest of two daughters of Juliet and Percy Hirst. She counted Pennsylvania"
"Paysage Bords de Seine Paysage Bords de Seine (""On the Shore of the Seine"" or ""Landscape on the Banks of the Seine"") is an 1879 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It was stolen in 1951 from the Baltimore Museum of Art and resurfaced in 2012. ""Paysage Bords de Seine"" was painted by Renoir in 1879. In June 1925, the painting was purchased by the Paris art gallery Bernheim-Jeune from a ""Madame Papillon"" (possibly Alphonsine Fournaise Papillon, a figure in the artist's ""Luncheon of the Boating Party""). In January 1926, Herbert L. May purchased the painting from Bernheim-Jeune. In 1937, May's"
"Pascal Lecocq Pascal Lecocq (born June 4, 1958) is a French painter and set designer. He is the ""Painter of Blue "" who paints on high backcloths of sky or deep sea, as a stage director, figures, horses, divers, allegories, architectures, Venice, and ancient ruins, between hyperrealism and surrealism with a whimsical sense of humor. He is the author of the diving world renowned picture: ""The Matador"". Pascal Lecocq was born in Fontainebleau, France, on June 4, 1958. Pascal attended, while in high school, ""Ecole Comairas"" art school, from the Fondation Taylor, in Fontainebleau, from 1973 to 1977, as a"
"He withdrew to Castel Gandolfo, where he died. Charles-Joseph Natoire Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 – 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751–1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Boucher, he played a prominent role in the artistic life of France. He is remembered above all for the series of the ""History of Psyche"" for Germain Boffrand's oval ""salon de la Princesse"" in the Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, and for the tapestry cartoons for the series of the ""History of"
"refers to an optical illusion (""Trompe l'Oeil"") in the background of a self-portrait by Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665). The viewer's eyes are drawn to a colorful painting in the background over the painter's shoulder rather than to the drab-colored painter himself in the foreground. The painting is of a woman in classic garb who is wearing a tiara with a small red gem in its peak. Conspiracy theorists have said that Poussin's paintings contain secret codes or clues. Perhaps the players have to uncover a plot or conspiracy using the clues provided by Poussin's paintings? A Sorcery supplement that"
"Léger, Jean Metzinger (of which ""Bacchante""), Pablo Picasso, Jean Puy and Henri Rousseau. These works were confiscated by the French state and sold seven years later at the auction house Hôtel Drouot in Paris 30 May 1921. Jean Metzinger's 1905-1906 Fauvist-divisionist technique had its parallel in literature. For him, there was an emblematic alliance between the Symbolist writers and Neo-Impressionism. Each brushstroke of color was equivalent to a word or 'syllable'. Together the cubes of pigments formed sentences or 'phrases', translating various emotions. This is an important aspect of Metzinger's work of this period, his proto-Cubist work, and an important"
"a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun; and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage. Pierre Pinoncelli Pierre Pinoncelli (born 15 April 1929, Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) is a performance artist most noted for damaging two of the eight copies of ""Fountain"" by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The most recent attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou"
"tubercular infection, Géricault died in Paris in 1824 after a long period of suffering. His bronze figure reclines, brush in hand, on his tomb at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, above a low-relief panel of "" The Raft of the Medusa"". Théodore Géricault Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is ""The Raft of the Medusa"". Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in the tradition of English sporting art by"
"Le ruisseau noir Le ruisseau noir (The Black Stream) (also known in En. as ""Stream in a Ravine"") is an oil-on-canvas landscape painted by French artist, Gustave Courbet, in 1865. It is currently held and exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This picture was included in the Exposition Universelle of 1867, and was bought from the artist in the same year by the Comte de Nieuwerkerque, Director of Museums, for Napoleon III, at the price of 2000 French francs. It was part of the Emperor's personal property, and was allotted to the Louvre by the Tribunal de la Seine,"
"Man with a Pipe Man with a Pipe, also referred to as Portrait of an American Smoker, Portrait of an American Smoking and American Smoking, is a painting by the French Cubist artist Jean Metzinger. The work was reproduced on the cover of catalogue of the ""Exhibition of Cubist and Futurist Pictures"", Boggs & Buhl Department Store, Pittsburgh, forming part of a show in 1913 that traveled to several U.S. cities: Milwaukee, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York, and Philadelphia. In 1914 a catalogue was printed for the occasion of the Milwaukee leg of the show, 16 April to 12 May, titled"
"L'Amour et Psyché, enfants L'Amour et Psyché, enfants is an oil painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau in 1890. It is currently in a private collection. It was displayed in the Salon of Paris in 1890, the year Bouguereau was President of the Société des Artistes Français. The painting features Greek mythological figures Cupid and Psyché, sharing an embrace and kiss. Bouguereau was a Classical-style painter in the Neoclassical era of art. The painting is characterized by the frothy background the figures delicately stand on. It depicts the beginning of the forbidden romance of Cupid and Psyche, a popular subject at"
"Pierre Pinoncelli Pierre Pinoncelli (born 15 April 1929, Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) is a performance artist most noted for damaging two of the eight copies of ""Fountain"" by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The most recent attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou in Paris and the first at an exhibition in Nîmes on 25 August 1993, where he also urinated into it before using the hammer. He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time; robbed"
"The Four Seasons (Poussin) The Four Seasons (""fr"" Les Quatre Saisons) was the last set of four oil paintings completed by the French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). The set was painted in Rome between 1660 and 1664 for the Duc de Richelieu, the nephew of Cardinal Richelieu. Each painting is an elegiac landscape with Old Testament figures conveying the different seasons and times of the day. Executed when the artist was in failing health suffering from a tremor in his hands, the ""Seasons"" are a philosophical reflection on order in the natural world. The iconography evokes not only the Christian"
"La Circassienne au Bain La Circassienne au Bain, also known as Une Baigneuse, was a large Neoclassical oil painting from 1814 by Merry-Joseph Blondel depicting a life-sized young Circassian woman bathing in an idealized setting from classical antiquity. The painting was destroyed with the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in 1912. When financial compensation claims were filed with US commissioner Gilchrist in January 1913, the painting gained notoriety as the subject of the largest claim made against the White Star Line for the loss of a single item of baggage or cargo. The painting was first exhibited at the Paris"
"attempted to discover whether two sketchbooks were created by him. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. In a 2005 auction"
"La Coiffeuse La Coiffeuse is a painting by Pablo Picasso. The painting was done by Pablo Picasso in 1911. It is 33x46 centimetre (or 13x18 inch). The painting was donated to the French state. It was last exhibited in Berlin, Germany, in 1998. It was then stored at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. However, it was stolen in 2001. In December 2014, it was sent via FedEx from Belgium to the United States with a customs indication as a Christmas present. Upon its arrival, it was seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark, New Jersey. By August 2015,"