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Jul 1, 2024 · Jean Cocteau (born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France—died October 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris) was a French poet, librettist, novelist, actor, film director, and painter.
Jun 11, 2024 · Perhaps best known for his 1929 novel “Les Enfants Terribles” (“The Holy Terrors”) and the 1946 feature film “La Belle et la Bête ” (“Beauty and the Beast”), Cocteau was also a gifted...
3 days ago · Jean Cocteau in Venice: The versatile artist . Poet, playwright, director, painter: a versatile and brilliant interpreter of the 20th century avant-garde, Jean Cocteau was an artist capable of constantly reinventing himself to fulfil his multifaceted genius.
Jun 26, 2024 · Cocteau was a magnificent thief, adapting old stories and ideas – the poet doesn’t invent but listen, he said. Yet as a film-maker he was supremely inventive, with scenes from The Blood of a Poet (1930), such as when the poet splashes through the surface of a mirror, enduringly sublime.
3 days ago · Jean Cocteau was born on July 5, 1889, in Maisons-Laffitte, a suburb of Paris, France. Growing up in a bourgeois family, Cocteau was exposed to the arts from a young age, showing early talent in drawing and writing. His father’s suicide when Cocteau was nine left a profound impact on him, and he was raised primarily by his mother.
Jun 11, 2024 · A 1949 photograph of Jean Cocteau, shot by Philippe Halsman for Life magazine, playfully depicts the suave and influential Cocteau, a leading figure of the 20th-century French avant-garde, with a surreal number of hands, holding a pen, a paintbrush, scissors, a book and, of course, a lit cigarette. That image, now on posters all over ...
4 days ago · The first Unit London X ArtReview Writers Residency text discusses Jean Cocteau, the morality of beauty and art’s necessary isolation from the daily turmoil and churn of politics.
