Andre Fougeron
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Artist Andre Fougeron had a number of jobs before becoming unemployed. While unemployed, he joined the Maison de la Culture, the focus of a united Left front of intellectuals and artists in Paris, France. He joined the Communist Party after the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact in 1939, and during the second world war was the main influence behind the Front National des Arts. He took a firm stance against the modernists, becoming closely associated with the notion of a revolutionary French history painting.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Inside the age of innocence
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Anthony van Dyck was a 17th century portrait painter who was especially skilled in depicting children in an appealing way. There are sometimes signs of melancholy in his paintings, and these reflect van Dyck's own experiences as a child. His mother died when he was seven years old. He was apprenticed to a painter in Antwerp, Hendrick van Balen, when he was 10-years-old. His empathy for children, and the tenderness with which he depicts them reflects the unhappy times he spent as a child.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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James Ravilious
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Artist and documentary photographer James Ravilious trained as an accountant, but then entered St Martin's School of Art. After leaving college in 1962, he spent a year living in a croft on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, and then took a part-time job at Hammersmith College of Further Education, teaching wood-engraving and drawing. He developed a strong interest in photography in the late 1960s, and created a photographic archive of north Devon, England.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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