Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), the French artist used to say:
Ultimately to be an artist is a privilege; it is not a job. You are born an artist. You can’t help it. You have no choice.
I totally agree with Louise. Artists have no choice.
In this section, I will share materials related to artists in different domains: writers, musicians, poets, painters, sculptors. I am graduated in French Language and Literature. I studied and lived in Paris for 7 years. I split my life between art and the French langage. I am specially a fan of the XX century for both art and literature.
For my first blog post, I have chosen one of my favorite photos, where writers and painters are gathered together in the XX century.
Standing, left to right : Jacques Lacan, Cécile Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Louise Leiris, Zanie Aubier, Picasso, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir. Sitting: Sartre, Albert Camus, Michel Leiris, Jean Aubier et Kazbek, Picasso´s afghan shepherd dog…
This photograph was taken on June 16, 1944 in Picasso’s studio, 7, rue des Grands-Augustins, in Paris, where, to thank them and have them photographed by Brassaï, the artist invited all the participants to the first reading of Desire Caught by the Tail, the theatrical farce he had written from January 14 to 17, 1941.
