"Jean Olivier Hucleux: Retrospective 1971-1999".MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN His presidential portraits of Georges Pompidou and Francois Mitterrand Noun 1. Francois Mitterrand - French statesman and president of France from 1981 to 1985 (1916-1996) Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand, Mitterrand may decorate the Palais de l'Elysee, but the French painter Jean Olivier Hucleux remains largely unknown. After exhibiting a disquieting dis·qui·et tr.v. dis·qui·et·ed, dis·qui·et·ing, dis·qui·ets To deprive of peace or rest; trouble. n. Absence of peace or rest; anxiety. adj. Archaic Uneasy; restless. series of photo-based "funeral" paintings at Documenta V, in 1972, Hucleux received a commission to paint the faces of fame: Picasso, Beckett, Warhol, and Beuys are among the large-scale likenesses that turned their maker into the nation's official portraitist par excellence. Organized by in-house curator Thierry Raspail, this 180-work survey promises a fresh look at the painter whose pantheon pantheon (păn`thēŏn', –thēən), term applied originally to a temple to all the gods. The Pantheon at Rome was built by Agrippa in 27 B.C., destroyed, and rebuilt in the 2d cent. by Hadrian. honors the art of painting as much as it pays tribute to the illustrious il·lus·tri·ous adj. 1. Well known and very distinguished; eminent. See Synonyms at noted. 2. Obsolete Shining brightly. figures depicted. Oct. 21, 1999-Jan. 15, 2000. |
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