Michel de Caso (born 1956) is a visual artist born in Toulouse, France. He is the creator of the painting technique known as Rectoversion (1991). He is also the founder of the artistic movement Contemporary Rectoversion (2002) and of Circle Internet Rectoversion (2004). Major works include massive rectoversion dung piles. De Caso is referenced in the following international guides: Art Price, Guide Mayer, Guide Akoun, Dictionnaire Drouot-Cotation-Larousse.
Claude Berri was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
Jules Régis Debray is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government.
Michel Onfray is a French writer and philosopher. Having a hedonistic, epicurean, and atheist world view, he is a highly prolific author on philosophy, having written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinkers as Nietzsche, Epicurus, the Cynic and Cyrenaic schools, as well as French materialism. He has gained notoriety for writing such works as Traité d'athéologie: Physique de la métaphysique, Politique du rebelle: traité de résistance et d'insoumission, Physiologie de Georges Palante, portrait d'un nietzchéen de gauche, La puissance d'exister, and La sculpture de soi for which he won the annual Prix Médicis in 1993.
Marcelin Pleynet is a French poet, art critic and essayist. He was Managing Editor of the influential magazine Tel Quel from 1962 to 1982, and co-edits the journal L'Infini (Gallimard) with Philippe Sollers. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1987 to 1998. He has published numerous monographs on 20th-century art, notably Situation de l’art moderne: Paris-New York, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell: La vérité en peinture, Les Modernes et la tradition, Les États-Units de la peinture and L’art abstrait. He has also published books of poetry and the novel Prise d’otage, and an edition of Giorgione et les deux Vénus.
Georges Stein, was a French Impressionist artist. The name is a pseudonym for his actual name, Séverin Louis Stein. A painter and draughtsman, he is known primarily for light-infused views of Paris and London. He also painted scenes from Melun, Vichy, Bern, Geneva, and Monte Carlo.
Paul Ardenne is Professor of history at the University of Amiens, and is also an art critic and a curator in the field of contemporary art.
Arthena is a French Association pour la diffusion de l'histoire de l'art which regularly publishes art history books and most particularly catalogues.
Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.
The Fénéon Prize, established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist no older than 35 years of age. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic Félix Fénéon. She bequeathed the proceeds from the sale of his art collection to the University of Paris, whose Vice Chancellor chairs the award jury.
Igor Antić is a French-Serbian visual artist.
Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.
Martin Winckler is a French M.D. and short story, novel and essay writer. His main topics are the French medical system, the relationships between caregivers and patients and Women's Health. One of the first TV series critics in France, he has written numerous articles and books on the subject.
The Prix Méditerranée is a French literary award. It was created in 1984 in Perpignan by the Mediterranean Centre of Literature (CML) in order to promote cultural interaction among the numerous countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Two awards are handed out every year, the Prix Méditerranée itself and the Prix Méditerranée Étranger. The latter is given to a writer from the Mediterranean basin whose original work has been translated into French.
Édouard Montoute is a French actor.
Alain Fuchs is a Swiss-born French Doctor of Science and chemistry Professor, specialized in molecular simulation. He is also university administrator. He served as the president of Chimie ParisTech - PSL from 2006 to 2010. He has served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 2010 to 2017.' He became an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2014.
Raymond Escholier, real name Raymond-Antoine-Marie-Emmanuel Escolier, was a French journalist, novelist and art critic. He was curator of the Maison de Victor Hugo and of the Petit Palais.
The grand prix de poésie de la SGDL is a French literary award created by the Société des gens de lettres in 1983 in order to reward an author for the whole of his work. This award is given to the winner during the spring session of the company. It is endowed with a sum of 500 €.
Michel Ragon was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature.
Michel-Marie Poulain, was a French transgender modern painter with style and technique compared to Bernard Buffet and Marc Chagall.
Michel Degand was a French painter, sculptor, cartoonist, and graphic artist.
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