Post by Madalina Dobraca

Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (in this capacity, best known for ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’ – an Oscar nominated film from 1945), was born on this day (February 4) in 1900. Prévert’s poems remain very popular in the French-speaking world and have also been translated into many languages worldwide. Versatile personality, Prévert was also known as a visual artist, flirting with surrealism, and being associated with surrealists like Robert Desnos, Yves Tanguy, Louis Aragon, and André Breton. Prévert used to compose collages from ready-made images – postcards, reproduction of art works, magazine pictures, photographs taken by his friends Izis (Israëlis Bidermanas), Brassaï, André Villers, and Alexandre Trauner. The construction of his collages often evoked theatrical staging – he used to put precut characters on a scene and move them until they found their place. Featured: ☂️ Collages by Jacques Prévert 🌂 A ‘cadavre exquis’ (exquisite corpse) – the collaborative collage ‘Figure’ (1928) by 7 Surrealist artists and poets: Jacques Prévert, André Breton, Max Morise, Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy, Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, and Yves Tanguy (2nd picture in the post) #artbasedlearning #jacquesprevert #poetry #surrealism #collageart #cadavreexquis #photography