Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Illustration — Pignon-Ernest in 2014 Ernest Pignon-Ernest (born 1942) is a Fluxus and Situationist French artist, born in Nice.
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest
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- Full name
- Ernest Pignon.
- Born
- 1942. · Nice.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- artist and photographer.
- Honours
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit and Prix Pégase.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Pignon-Ernest in 2014 Ernest Pignon-Ernest (born 1942) is a Fluxus and Situationist French artist, born in Nice.
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The recorded working language is French. Work by Ernest Pignon-Ernest is recorded in the collections of International Institute of Social History and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit and Prix Pégase.
His first work was completed in 1966. It was a reaction to France's Nuclear Strike Force. In 1971, he exhibited posters depicting scenes from the Commune. In 1978–1979, his posters of Arthur Rimbaud could be seen all over France. In 1988–1990, he made drawings of Naples. In 1996, he initiated the collection of international artwork called Art Against Apartheid alongside Antonio Saura. Pignon-Ernest's posters are in the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Pignon-Ernest joined the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), one of the main labour unions in France. With Henri Cueco, he co-founded the Syndicat national des artistes plasticiens CGT.
Dacos et Ernest Pignon Ernest travaillant aux gisants d'Ernest Pignon Ernest.
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- 1.Bright, Deborah. The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire. Routledge. 1998. 978-0-415-14581-7.
- 2.Cedar Lewisohn, Street art: the graffiti revolution, Tate, 2008, p. 69
- 3.Bertrand Tillier, 'Les corps piétinés de la Commune: figures de la provocation chez Ernest Pignon-Ernest', in La provocation: une dimension de l'art contemporain (XIXe-XXe siècles), Éric Darragon (ed.), Marianne Jakobi (ed.), Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004, p. 301 https://books.google.com/books?id=gBlG74_mSKEC&dq=%22Ernest+Pignon-Ernest%22&pg=PA301
- 4.Wallace Fowlie (ed.), Seth Adam Whidden (ed.), Rimbaud: complete works, selected letters : a bilingual edition, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2005, p. xxi
- 5.Philippe Birgy, The art of the city, L'art de la ville, Toulouse: Presses Université du Mirail, 2010, p. 502 https://books.google.com/books?id=BtglsDE6LuwC&dq=%22Ernest+Pignon-Ernest%22&pg=PA503
- 6.Sophie Perryer, 10 years 100 artists: art in a democratic South Africa, Struik, 2004, p. 433 https://books.google.com/books?id=MohAEFc7mG0C&dq=%22Ernest+Pignon-Ernest%22&pg=PT379
- 7.Attica. Center for the Study of Political Graphics. 1 October 2016.
- 8.Le peintre Henri Cueco est mort. Libération. March 15, 2017.
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