Raymond Hains.CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais. Rumor has it that Raymond Hains Raymond Hains (Dinard, 1926 - Paris, October 28, 2005) was a French artist and photographer. Biography In 1945 he briefly enrolled in the sculpture course at the École des Beaux-Arts, Rennes and met Jacques de la Villeglé that same year. He then collaborated with E. is one of the most influential French artists of the postwar period. A founding member of the Nouveaux Realistes, he became famous--to some, infamous--in the '50s for his slashed war posters, those lacerated lacerated /lac·er·at·ed/ (las´er-at?ed) torn; mangled; wounded by a jagged instrument. lac·er·at·ed adj. Cut or wounded in a jagged manner. portraits of French colonialism during the Algerian conflict. But his broader oeuvre--photographs, paintings, sculptures, decollages, objects, films, "Macintoshages" (computer-derived collages)--and the irreverent wit that permeates it, deserves another look. Organized by the Pompidou's Christine Macel, this 150-piece, full-career survey reveals the artist's astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. stylistic range. A French affair-or will Hains's absurdist rhetoric manage to proliferate beyond France's linguistic borders? June 27-Sept. 3. |
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