Beauty ...

Perfume by Nina Ricci.

This advertisment shows a charming, attractive, and very sensual beauty. This photo exploits woman's adventages, stressing  her elegant and feminine forms. She looks  a little wild, with her black gloves and her black ears, she looks like an animal. Then, the colors of this picture are very smart, distinguished, and glamourous : Pink &   Black. This mixture of colors is characteristic of  seduction and provocation.

This  photo is  "kitsch" , mysterious  but it expresses a feeling of strentgh and of fascinating beauty. It intends to seduce people.

Perfume by Nina Ricci.

This picture is an advert for the same perfume : Nina Ricci. This one expresses the natural strentgh and beauty of woman. The white color symbolizes purity and freedom. It's a picture which is astonishingly natural.

   Comparing both pictures, we notice that on the second one there's no useless accessory. This picture is not intended to seduce ;  we are just admirative in front of so much strentgh and simplicity.

  Looking at the first picture, I can see a desperate woman trying by all means to hide her true face under a "mask".

                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                   J.B

Raymond Briggs

1/ What is his profession ?

     
    Raymond Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author too. He produced humour for children and adults too. 

2/How important is it to him ?

      His profession illustrated his whole life. His work was the only very important thing  in his life. He devoted all his efforts and his hopes to his job.

 

3/ What is his house like ?

   His residence looks like a gigantic comic strip because his house's walls are covered with his drawings.

   

4/ How does his home reflect his personality ?

  His house reflects his real personnality because there are posters of his work of art. Then, in his house there are many books, photos, paint-works, paint and pencils. 

   So his house "overflows" with colors. Therefore, it's a real artist-residence.

 

5/ How does  he talk about himself, his  parents, the characters he has invented?

 

  Raymond Briggs is very modest. He is rather peculiar,  apparently with a  weak personnality. But when we see his house, we understand he  has an "oversized" personnality, very developped and fantastic too.

  Actually, he created  his parents' characters in his fantasy, and in this intervew, we can see he put these character on the top of a cupboard. It shows us he respects, loves them a lot. And, when he talks about his parents, we can notice he's very  upset. R.B he's still thinking of them.

 

What words do you use

I don't use the same language with my friends as with my parents. I think, if teenagers don't use the same language as their parents, it's just because they want to be "different " from their parent's generation. They expect to find their own identity. And, we, teenagers, we use for instance some words like :

- Arrête, tu me fais baliser !
- J 'ai le sum...
- J'ai pas le goût là.
- ça va ou quoi ?
- J'avoue
- La même
-J'ai au taquet ( de sous)
- Sale tepu =) [verlan]
- C'est un tebê fini celui-là !
- Il a le cul mais pas le I : " - T'as perdu ton I,  je te donnerai pas mon cul !"  [ expression perso.-message codé danseur ! ;  ) ]


And many other things !

I am as I am

I am as I am
I'm just like that
When I feel like laughing
Yes, I just burst out of laughter
I love the one who loves me
Is it my fault ?
If it's not the same one
That I love everytime
I am as I am
I'm just like that
What do you want more ?
What do you want from me ?
I am born to be loved
I can't change it
My heels are too high
My waist is too slim
My breasts are much too hard
My eyes too tired
It doesn't matter

It's none of your business
I am as I am
No matter who loves me
It's none of your business


What  happened to me ?
Yes I loved someone
Yes someone loved me
Like children love each other
Children know how to love
Love love ...
Why do you ask questions ?
I'm here to be loved
I can't change it.

Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar square

The Fourth Plinth is in the north-west of Trafalgar Square, in central London. Built in 1841, it was originally intended for an equestrian statue but was empty for many years. It is now the location for specially commissioned artworks.

On this platform, I would like to put a big man surrounded with a lots of multicolourd baloons, blowed up with helium. And, I let him on the Fourth Plinth, until he flys away !!! And, after I'll laugh at him ! I think it'll be very very funny ! But maybe a little sadist ... = D

Me, Myself and I...

I have a dream: to be able to dance all my life!

Dance is in my body, I love it. When I dance I feel free.

Dance is a balance between me and me.

I love the feeling of my body 'flying'!

                         I love to dance...

Me, myself, and I...

It's so difficult to speak about myself.

It's always hard to 'unveil' yourself.


In this photo,I see a young,happy girl;

It shows one of those moments when I feel

 really good.

I doubt myself quite a lot; this is what this photo shows.There are moments of 'vacuum' when I wonder what I'm doing

here, in this city, and why I didn't follow my friends.

In fact, I ask myself a lot of questions.

The answers I find help me a lot to move on in my life...

And then I know why I'm here, in Aurillac, because I would like to realize my dream: to dance!

Pablo Ruiz Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Malaga in Spain, on October, the 25th of 1881. He was a spanish painter, draftman and sculptor. It's Pablo Picasso who invented the cubism with George Braque, another surrealist. 

Several periods marked his life, like the bleu period, the pink period, the african period, and of course, the cubism period. There was also the period of the surrealism, the period of the civil war in Spain when he painted Guernica, and then there was a period when he got involved in the communist party.

Picasso painted a lot of pictures, among them, there were some auto portraits.

This picture above was realised in gouache. This auto portrait of Picasso was painted during the painter's so called "blue period" (1901-1904). In fact we can notice that, on this portrait, the colour blue was very dominant. This period  reveals that Picasso 's work was at that time marked by old age, death and  poverty. The blue Picasso uses for his pictures was very dark, commonplace, monotonous and, so, very sad. And, when we know Picasso's life, we can understand the origin of these lugubrious pictures. In fact, during this blue period, Picasso had  to overcome the sucide of his spanish friend, Carlos Casagemas. So, his first picture of the blue period was "la mort de Casagemas". The following pictures of this period often describe beggars, blind and poor persons. They are very typical of Picasso's frame of mind in  this period : he was facinated by misery, hurt by disappointments.Therefore we can add, Picasso's Blue Period expresses a lot of melancholy.

When I look at this picture, I see a man. Just a man. He looks sad, morose, a man who lost any hope. He seems very dark. I think his life was a sort of mixture between boring routine and confinment in deep sadness. So, he's imprisoned in the worship of the death, of the misfortunes of life.

If we consider Pablo Picasso's case, we can answer to one of the questions : portraits often reflect a part of the artist's life and are influenced by it.

Questions around the exhibition 'La Part de l'Ombre' in Aurillac, October 2009

How come that some artists prefer to show their picture as they are, while others prefer to mask, to deform their work?

Why did the photographer Marc Jourdan choose elderly people as subjects? What does he want to make us feel?

What is the purpose of the picture of Virginie Wood? What's the aim of this strange, sensual atmosphere ?

What do photographers want to achieve when they use photo fragmentation?

Do portraits reflect part of the artist's life?

What's most important for the artist: the aesthetics of their work or what they express?

Do the 'dirty' pictures reveal a traumatism of the artist?

Where does the idea to photograph photographers come from?