Where creativity becomes innovation, if transformed into reality Journey into the creativity of France https://nz.ambafrance.org/Creativity-A-quintessentially-french-trait, where être means to be and where it indicates nationality and profession, but also where it describes people and things. One can be French by descent or by the battles waged, yet, already in conceiving a certain type of sail or handbag; in both cases, …
Read More »WHEN COMICS BECOME SOCIOLOGY – Claire Bretécher, a cartoonist on TV, at the dawn of the millennium
Satirical strips describing the eccentricities of French society Her Agrippina, a grumpy teenager with boots on and short hair, was born in the late 1980s. As a comic book author, behind that character she covered gender and sexuality with a biting humor. For her stories, it is not by chance that Claire Bretécher has become a point of reference of …
Read More »NOTHING IS REAL, EXCEPT DREAMS AND LOVE – Anna de Noailles, the full beauty and the noble and peaceful splendor of light
The infinite heart of a woman named Anna Throughout her life, she had a troubled friendship with the novelist and essayist Maurice Barrès. Her father died at the age of ten, yet in Victor Hugo’s poems, she discovered a language to overcome that loss through artistic representation. Descending from families of Romanian boyars and daughter of a prince, she had …
Read More »THE MADEMOISELLE OF THE FRENCH SONG – Françoise Hardy, the yéyé generation and the 45-rpm musical hits
Shy, style icon and narrator of the sufferings of love A private music school, the Petit Conservatoire, directed by Mireille Artyush, was chose by her parents as a suitable place for her to have professional musical knowledge. In her spare time, she devoted attention to psychology and astrology, publishing books and participating in radio broadcasts. Bob Dylan mentioned Françoise Hardy …
Read More »AN INTROSPECTIVE AND PROPHETIC EYE PAINTER – Victor Brauner, between flattened perspectives and vivid colors
The eclectic use of images, between religion and mysticism His Prelude to a Civilization represents a gigantic white animal in profile on a blue and green ground, which preserves a series of stylized and strange representations inside. I am the dream. I am the inspiration. Through his work, he has depersonalized the human form, describing his anxieties to you. In …
Read More »WHERE SECRETS TRAVEL FAST – Wherever you go, it stays with you, for Paris is a long creative feast
Walk about Paris, because will provide you lessons in beauty and taste Oh, Paris! There is no place like the city of lights, right? Or is it the City of creativity? Among the many ways of getting to know a city, we have created one that will powerfully involve your way of smelling, tasting and being involved. Before starting to …
Read More »THE MUSICAL CULTURE OF THE ROAD – Manu Chao: Playing and singing in slippers, between via St. Pau and calle Escudellers
Hovering between temptations intimate sensitivity and social reality His music has undergone many influences, all deriving from his Spanish origins and from travels to Mesoamerica. His parents had moved to Paris to escape Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, in the suburban area between Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres. The home of Manu Chao http://www.manuchao.net/, it housed many refugees from South American dictatorships, and had …
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