Echirolles picasso biography
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History of the French Communist Party
The French Communist Party (French: Parti Communiste Français; abbreviated PCF) has been a part of the political scene in France since , peaking in strength around the end of World War II. It originated when a majority of members resigned from the socialist French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) party to set up the French Section of the Communist International (SFIC). The SFIO had been divided over support for French participation in World War inom and over whether to join the Communist International (Comintern). The new SFIC defined itself as revolutionary and democratic centralist. Ludovic-Oscar Frossard was its first secretary-general, and Ho Chi Minh was also among the founders. Frossard himself resigned in , and the s saw a number of splits within the party over relations with other left-wing parties and over adherence to the Communist International's dictates. The party gained representation in the French parliament in
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Vik Muniz
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B. , São Paulo, Brazil
Lives and works in New York, NY, USA
Selected public collections
• 21c Museum Foundation, Louisville, KY, USA
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
• ABNAMRO Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Ackland Art Museum. The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
• Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie, Indiana Banco de España, Madrid, Spain
• Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France
• CaixaForum, Fundación “la Caixa”, Madrid, Spain
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Cabildo dem Gran Canária, Canary Island, Spain
• Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago dem Compostela, Spain
• Centro dem Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, CAC. Malaga, Spain
• Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
• Chase Art schema, New York, NY, USA
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Jean Mosnier
Jean Mosnier, 62 years old, teaching sculpture, drawing and painting at the Special Education School of Echirolles is undoubtedly the most secret artist in our region.
Born in Clermont Ferrand in , Jean Mosnier did not leave his hometown until to set up his workshop in Grenoble, in Echirolles exactly, during the Liberation before a short visit to Meylan and his return two years ago. years old in Echirolles, 13 rue de la Paix, in a vast gravelled ground floor, shaded by a few old trees.
But Jean Mosnier is also the author of the sumptuous ten-meter-long frieze of the Clermont Ferrand train station, as well as two large stone sculptures that adorn the Chamber of Commerce of the Auvergne capital, of a bust of Alexander Varenne and a high relief on the exterior wall of the Mutualité Sociale Agricole de Clermont Ferrand.
A lava bas-relief by Volvic on a school in Compain (Puy de Dome) and the baptismal font of Notre Dame de la Route are also among the most notab