Louis Pons
Illustration — Pons in 1995 Louis Pons (30 April 1927 – 12 January 2021) was a French collage artist. He specialised in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk. In Agnès Varda's documentary The Gleaners and I, Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;" and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.
Louis Pons
- Full name
- Ernest Louis Pons.
- Born
- 1927. · Marseille.
- Died
- 2021. · 15th arrondissement of Marseille.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- sculptor, painter and artist.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Pons in 1995 Louis Pons (30 April 1927 – 12 January 2021) was a French collage artist. He specialised in reliefs and assemblages made entirely from discarded objects and junk. In Agnès Varda's documentary The Gleaners and I, Pons explains his artistic process and understanding of art; what others see as "a cluster of junk," he sees as "a cluster of possibilities;" and that the function of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds.
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Pons was born on 30 April 1927. He died on 12 January 2021, at the age of 93.
Louis Pons is recorded with the occupation performing artist. Recorded as sculptor, painter and artist.
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1927
Louis Pons was born on 30 April 1927.
2021
Louis Pons died at 15th arrondissement of Marseille.
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