Jacques De La Villeglé

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Jacques de la Villeglé lived in France during the art movements in the 1950s and 1960s and therefore his artwork is a reflection of the European movements during that time period. This particular piece is called a décollage which involved the process of making a collage by gluing and pasting magazine articles, pictures, etc. to a canvas and then stripping away pieces of it to create a new work of art all together. In 122 rue du temple, Jacques de la Villeglé made it very clear to use specific movie posters and political notices only from the actual street called 122 rue du temple and tore them up to create this piece. In the late 1950s and early 1960s a French art movement had started called Nouveau Réalisme, which means “New Realism”. The …show more content…

There are movie posters in the décollage to represent how important the role of cinema was in the late 1950s and 1960s and how although the student and workers riots were happening, movies were also being made about them as a form of art. It also signifies how the riots were affecting everyone, and were even influencing the cinematic world. The political advertisements in this décollage were specifically for a legislative election instigated by the events of May in 1968. At the time, the current president, de Galle, had left the country and planned to resign. There were plans for forming a new government because it was becoming so corrupted and, therefore, also had an influence on society in France and is the reason Jacques de la Villeglé included political campaigns in his décollage. Jacques de la Villeglé made it apparent that all of the posters on the piece were collected from the real street 122 rue du temple to make a point that you could find all types of posters everywhere all over the streets. There were posters about political legislation transforming and cinema playing another important role in Paris in 1968. The posters collected from this specific street signify that any street in Paris was covered in these kinds of posters and would reminded anyone who saw them of the events that were happening and how these events meshed politics and …show more content…

One of them is a man and has part of the name, “Jacques,” under it, which would make viewers believe that it is a symbol of him, but the image make him unrecognizable because the entire face has been stripped away. This could be Jacques de la Villeglé’s way of branding his artwork. There are two other faces that are recognizably women, which most likely was to indicate the discrimination women felt during 1968 as they were defined as “housewives”. One of the women even looks as if she is a housewife because she is wearing a large headband that is commonly seen as the image of a housewife. All of the other faces were torn through except for that one, which is definitely recognizable. Jacques de la Villeglé made her face viewable because she looks unhappy, as most women were during 1968 because they struggled to become

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