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Gérard Fromanger

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Gérard Fromanger

Born September 6, 1939 · Jouars-Pontchartrain, Yvelines, France

Died June 18, 2021 · aged 81

Gérard Fromanger (6 September 1939 – 18 June 2021[1]) was a French visual artist. A painter who also employed collage, sculpture, photography, cinema, and lithography, he was associated with the French artistic movement of the 1960s and 1970s, called Figuration Narrative (new figurative representation), somewhat like pop art. Fromanger was also associated with photorealism. Fromanger studied at t…

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CinétractsCinétracts · 1968
Cinétracts
★ 7.91968
MovieDocumentary
A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.
Le RougeLe Rouge · 1970
Le Rouge
1970
Movie
Film-Tract n° 1968Film-Tract n° 1968 · 1968
Film-Tract n° 1968
★ 6.51968
MovieDocumentary
In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 July 1968, the film shows the process of making Fromanger’s poster image, which is thick red paint flows over a tri-color French flag. —Hye Young Min

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