Jean Cocteau

...least partly circumstantial. Writing of Parade, the surrealist ballet which was created by the combined talents of Picasso, Satie, Cocteau and Leonid Massine, Scheijen points out that one reason it came into being in 1917 was that Russia...

In this article: Sergei Diaghilev, Ballets Russes, Nijinsky, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps, Parade, Richard Buckle, and Leonid Massine

...from private home collections in Central Missouri are being shown. These include works by well-known artists such as Edouard Manet, Jean Cocteau and Alexander Calder, as well as local artists James Miller and Thomas Yancey. Gallery hours are...

In this article: University of Missouri, Barbie, Jefferson City, Stephens College, and Central Methodist University

...he took up photography and shot the boldface names of his time -- Gertrude Stein (alongside the portrait Picasso painted of her), Jean Cocteau, even a young Ernest Hemingway. He was a brilliant fashion photographer, too, and his nature shots...

In this article: Man Ray, Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Duchamp, Jewish Museum, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, American Masters, and Indestructible Object

...season with BTM. Cuatto brought symbolism, metaphor and humor to the show, while combining romantic elements reminiscent of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film sprinkled with hints of Disney's 1991 animated version. The ballet was set to the...

In this article: Belle, Beast, Disney, Maryland, and Halloween

...them as 'a couple of slaps on the face of decency that should not be allowed to pass unnoticed'. In Paris, where writers such as Jean Cocteau and Georges Batailles championed her work, Fini had a warmer reception and in her superb...

In this article: Leonor Fini, Paris, Margot Fonteyn, Dora Maar, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, and Brigitte Bardot

...corners of this dingy, subterranean setting. The Quays' visual language, while melancholy, is profound and beautiful. Think poet Jean Cocteau's film "Beauty and the Beast," only more abstract. While referencing somewhat obscure materials,...

In this article: Stephen Quay, Tim Burton, Street of Crocodiles, Halloween, University of the Arts, Old Dominion University, MTV, and Street of Crocodiles

...of Sergey Diaghilev portrays him as a brilliant manipulator and sexual predator, says Luke Jennings Surrealist playwright Jean Cocteau, left, with Sergei Diaghilev, 1924. Photograph: Getty Images In August 1929, the impresario Sergey...

In this article: Sergei Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Leon Bakst, Mikhail Fokine, Richard Buckle, Robert de Montesquiou, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, St Petersburg, and Scheherazade

...was two decades-worth of popular hits with his Ballets Russes, and a boost to the careers of Matisse, Stravinsky, Apollinaire and Cocteau, among many celebrated others. One hundred years after that first explosive season, Sadler's Wells is...

In this article: Serge Diaghilev, Sadler's Wells, Claude Debussy, and Les Sylphides

...one work each that honours his legacy. And it comes as little surprise that, in the manner of Diaghilev's famous dictum to collaborator Jean Cocteau, "Etonne-moi!", it's the troupe's shock-factor that naughty-boy De Frutos has opted to...

In this article: Sergei Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Paris, Dictum, Anti-clericalism, Rite of Spring, and Ballets Russes

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 October 2009 21.35 BST Diaghilev's famous challenge to Jean Cocteau - "Surprise me" - became the catchphrase for his legendary company Les Ballets Russes. It was the touchstone of his mission to transform ballet...

In this article: Sergei Diaghilev, Ballets Russes, Vaslav Nijinsky, Catholic faith, and Francis Bacon