From “Pierrot le fou” to the “image book”, the quotes and pictorial allusions in the filmmaker’s films, died September 13 at the age of 91, are very frequent.
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Godard and painting: subject of thesis or test, to include in a very long course questioning on relations between cinema and painting, and in which Godard would be in the company of many of his colleagues. Failing to engage in such a reflection, we must stick to the abundance and the frequency of quotes or pictorial allusions in his films; And that these were noticed very early, so much so that it does not seem excessive to think that, in Godard, cinema and painting do not separate.
In Pierrot Le Fou (1965), Ferdinand – Jean -Paul Belmondo – has his face painted in blue Yves Klein and photos of the shooting attest that it was the filmmaker who held the brush before taking the actor. And, about the film, Louis Aragon published in French Letters, on September 9, 1965, an article entitled What is art, Jean-Luc Godard? : “But Godard is Delacroix.” Followed the evocation of the death of Sardanapale, which Raid recently revised at the Louvre. “This is what the art of Delacroix here looks like Godard’s art in Pierrot le fou. Doesn’t that skip you?” Pierrot le fou, he continues, “is it so Like Sardanapale, a color film. On the big screen. which is distinguished from all the movies in color by this fact that the use of a means in Godard always has a goal, and almost constantly has his criticism. He does not Acts not only because it is well photographed, that the colors are beautiful … It is very well photographed, the colors are very beautiful. This is something else. “
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This “something else” is the density of the sensations, memories and ideas that the film arouses, like the canvas. At 35, here is Godard equaled to Delacroix, who painted his sardanaple at 29, by a French writer, Aragon, whose notoriety is then immense. Which author continues by also placing Godard under another sign: “If I also wanted, I would approach J. L. G. by the shore of painters to seek origin at one of the characteristics of his art which is most criticized for. The quotation, As the criticisms say, the collages as I proposed that it is called, and it seemed to me to see, in interviews, that Godard had taken up this term. “Now collage is Picasso, Braque, Schwitters and Ernst, cubism, dada and surrealism.
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