Word: je
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble in paradise began in Papeete, capital city of the islands, when a Tahitian politician with the resounding name of Jean-Baptiste Céeran-Jeérusalemy and his governing R.D.P.T. Party (Rassemblement Democratique des Populations Tahitiennes) put forward a bill in the territorial assembly to impose an income tax, and announced a drive to seek independence from France for a new Republic of Tahiti...
Married. Robert Motherwell, 43, and Helen Frankenthaler, 29, both abstract expressionist painters; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan. The phrase Je t'aime was featured in the titles of several of the groom's most recently exhibited canvases; e.g., in last year's Whitney annual his entry was called (in translation): I Love...
...Matisse used to design the outline of a chair, then design the colors, and fill them in. Or he designed the color and then the chair. But one comes after the other. Moi, je fais tout d'un coup [I do everything at once]-contour, matiere, surface, color, line, all in the same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard...
...more typical of the show as a whole was Robert Motherwell's entry-loud, messy, vigorous and oblique. Part of the title-Je t'aime, No. 11-A-was scrawled with grey mud against a background of black and orange bars. Beneath the letters was a bloody smear, at the point of what might be an upright brush. It did seem an odd way to say: "I love...
When the little girl arrived at the hotel in Paris, the owner's wife said graciously: "Ah bonjour Mademoiselle. Es-tu un enfant terrible?" To which the little girl replied with her impressive grasp of the French idiom: "No merci Mme. Dupuis je suis Me ELOISE...