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The Human Condition (La condition humaine) is the title of four paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.One was completed in 1933 and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [1] Another one was completed in 1935 and is part of the Simon Spierer Collection in Geneva, Switzerland. [2]
Georges André Malraux (/ m æ l ˈ r oʊ / mal-ROH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃dʁe malʁo]; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) won the Prix Goncourt.
René François Ghislain Magritte (French: [ʁəne fʁɑ̃swa ɡilɛ̃ maɡʁit]; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. [1]
Man's Fate (French: La Condition humaine, "The Human Condition") is a 1933 novel written by André Malraux about the failed communist insurrection in Shanghai in 1927, and the existential quandaries facing a diverse group of people associated with the revolution. Along with Les Conquérants (1928 – "The Conquerors") and La Voie Royale (1930 ...
La Condition humaine is a French expression that has been used as the title for various works: La Condition humaine, a series of pictures by Rene Magritte; A novel by Andre Malraux, translated as Man's Fate
Following the critical and commercial success of his 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and earned Zinnemann the Best Director Oscar, the filmmaker announced plans to create a film version of André Malraux's Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), a 1933 novel about the failed 1927 Communist revolution that took place in Shanghai, China, and the ...
Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk worked mainly in oil painting, but he also used other media, such as drawing, stucco, sculpture and mosaic.Between his first Swedish exhibition in 1946 in Eskilstuna [12] and his last in 1962 in Örebro, he had several exhibitions of his own and participated in group exhibitions.
The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...