Aux arts et caetera

If Wassily Kandinsky has been recognized as the father of abstraction, Gabriele Münter, the "mother" of this movement, has been forgotten, eclipsed by the aura of her lover and mentor. Delving into the history of Kandinsky and Münter, one of the first famous female painters in her lifetime, is to go behind the scenes of a passionate love which will last twelve years and give birth to one of the movements the most significant in the history of art: abstraction.

La comédienne Maria Casarès et l'écrivain Albert Camus ont vécu une passion intense que révèle leur correspondance. De 1944, année de leur rencontre, jusqu'à la mort de Camus, en 1960, ils échangeront plus de 900 lettres. Ces courriers mettent en lumière une femme libre, incroyablement moderne, éprise de vérité et d'absolu qui, toute sa vie, sera marquée par la quête de sa propre identité et celle du théâtre. Ces lettres font également entendre la voix d'un Albert Camus amoureux et fragile.

Rosa Bonheur was a pragmatic idealist, a conventional outsider, but above all a painter of agricultural life and wildlife at a time when the industrial revolution and urban growth were causing whole sections of the age-old relationship between men and women to disappear. animals. A feminist too, who refuses to marry and spends his whole life with women. This was enough to shock more than one right-thinking person. On the contrary, she is honored, respected, decorated, as if protected by a magical name. This film retraces the journey of the most famous French woman painter of the 19th century.

It is a precious, fragile moment that Bartabas offers in the majestic setting of the stables of the Palace of Versailles: his daily work with Tsar, his ebony-coated horse. In an intimate, silent and respectful dialogue, both concentrated, man and horse seek the pure gesture, a moment of beauty that is essentially ephemeral. From their joint work, universal emotions are born.

Pablo Picasso was the most famous and scandalous painter since the Renaissance. He was at the same time the patron of modern art, the painter who, with "Guernica", committed himself to freedom, and who never ceased to confuse and shock with his artistic ruptures as much as with his lifestyle. Not to mention the "ogre Picasso" and the circle of his numerous loves, his illegitimate and legitimate wives. Through rare archives, unpublished family films, the testimonies of his companions, his daughter and his grandchildren, the mystery of the Picasso icon is revealed a little.

Nicknamed "the king of zanies", creator of the legendary weekly "L'Os à marrow", Pierre Dac was also a poet, a philosopher in his own way, and a Resistance fighter. In London, at the BBC microphone, he was one of the "French people who speak to the French". His texts, like his thoughts, are absolutely modern. All the comedians of today and tomorrow have, or will have, something of Pierre Dac in them. Among his descendants and disciples, there are Pierre Desproges, Coluche, Les Nuls, Les Guignols, Michaël Hirsch, Gorafi and a few others.

Ten years of work have made the young Arod String Quartet one of the most brilliant of its generation. It takes a long time to implement the subtle alchemy that allows four musicians to dissolve as individuals and become one. Conflict resolution, working together, traveling and touring without neglecting personal life: so many obstacles to overcome to magnify a repertoire that extends from Mozart to Bartok via Debussy and Kurtág.