The Artist
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| Release date | Turkey |
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| Directors | Michel Hazanavicius |
| Featured song | Pennies from Heaven |
| Box office | 133. 4 million USD |
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| ID | 1168415 |
About The Artist
In the 1920s, actor George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring fans. While working on his latest film, George finds himself falling in love with an ingenue named Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) and, what's more, it seems Peppy feels the same way. But George is reluctant to cheat on his wife with the beautiful young actress. The growing popularity of sound in movies further separates the potential lovers, as George's career begins to fade while Peppy's star rises. …
Banksy: BBC reveals lost interview of street artist after 20 years
... It is one of the earliest known radio interviews with The Artist, who is often described as " mysterious" and " secretive" by the press...
Snoop Dogg gives up smoking after years of marijuana use
... The Dr Dre collaboration The Next Episode - which opened the Super Bowl half-time show in 2022 - carried the observation: " " In 2013, speaking to GQ magazine, The Artist said he was smoking 80 cannabis joints a day...
Ukraine war: Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko jailed for anti-war price tags
... In her closing statement, The Artist struck a defiant tone, asking the court: " How little faith does our prosecutor have in our state and society if he thinks that our statehood and public security can be ruined by five small pieces of paper? " " Say what you want - I was wrong, or I was brainwashed, " she said...
Donald Trump Jr praises 'genius' father in New York fraud trial
... And, nodding to his past complaints about the courtroom sketch art, he said he " already had a talk" with The Artist depicting the day s proceedings and joked that he wanted the AI version of himself - with a strong jawline and broad shoulders - to be drawn...
Amoako Boafo - the Ghanaian artist who has exhibited in space
... Boafo s big break came in 2018 when his paintings were discovered on Instagram by Kehinde Wiley, The Artist best known for his portrait of former US President Barack Obama, who recommended Boafo to the galleries he works with...
Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot John Hemingway 'just lucky'
... " The image is now captured in a sculpture of John by The Artist Stephen Melton at the Kent Battle of Britain Museum...
Woman with a Watch: Picasso masterpiece of 'golden muse' sells for £113m
...By Oliver SlowBBC NewsA 1932 Pablo Picasso masterpiece has sold for $139m (£113m), the second highest price ever achieved for The Artist, according to Sotheby s...
Belarus musicians behind bars in Lukashenko's crackdown on dissent
... The Artist later wrote on Facebook she was safely back home...
Woman with a Watch: Picasso masterpiece of 'golden muse' sells for £113m
By Oliver SlowBBC News
A 1932 Pablo Picasso masterpiece has sold for $139m (£113m), The Second highest price ever achieved for The Artist , according to Sotheby's.
Femme a la Montre (Woman with a Watch) also becomes The Most valuable work sold at auction this year.
It depicts Marie-Therese Walter, the French model who was also a lover of the Spanish artist, and the subject of many of his paintings.
The Work had been valued at $120m before it went to auction.
It was previously owned by the late art collector Emily Fisher Landau, who bought it in 1968, and has been purchased by an anonymous buyer.
Femme a la Montre is a portrait of Walter seated in a throne-like chair against a blue background.
Known as Picasso's " golden muse" Walter was 17 when she met the 45-year-old Picasso In Paris , and the pair later entered into A Secret relationship while he was still married to Olga Khokhlova , a Ukrainian ballerina.
Walter became the subject for many of Picasso's paintings, including the 1932 work Femme Nue Couchee (Nude Reclining Woman ), which sold for $67. 5m at auction in 2022.
Picasso's most expensive painting to sell at auction was Les Femmes d'Alger (Women of Algiers), which fetched $179. 3m at Christie's in 2015.
Born in Malaga in 1881 and Growing Up in Barcelona, Picasso moved to Paris in 1904 and became one of The Most important artists of the 20Th Century .
He experimented with a wide range of styles and themes in his career, most notably inspiring " Cubism" which shows objects or people from many angles at the same time.
In a career spanning eight decades he created about 150,000 pieces.
He had four children and died in Southern France in 1973, aged 92.
Although his creative legacy was never in doubt, recent years have seen questions over his behaviour. He has been accused of cruelty, womanising and coercive behaviour.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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