Jacques Villeglé

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Jacques Villeglé was a French artist best known for his torn poster collages that transformed urban street advertisements into politically and socially charged works of art.

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instanceOf artist
human
artisticConcept appropriation of urban reality
transformation of advertisements into art
artisticTechnique appropriation of street posters
décollage
layered torn paper compositions
birthName Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé NERFINISHED
collaboratedWith Raymond Hains NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1926-03-27
dateOfDeath 2022-06-06
educatedAt École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes NERFINISHED
École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork collage
conceptual art
political art
urban art
genre political art
urban realism
hasWorkInCollection Centre Pompidou NERFINISHED
Museum of Modern Art, New York NERFINISHED
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris NERFINISHED
Tate Modern NERFINISHED
influenced contemporary urban artists
street artists using posters
influencedBy Dada NERFINISHED
Lettrism NERFINISHED
Surrealism
memberOf Nouveau Réalisme group NERFINISHED
movement Lettrism-adjacent practices
Nouveau Réalisme NERFINISHED
name Jacques Villeglé NERFINISHED
notableFor politically charged artworks
socially engaged artworks
torn poster collages
use of found urban posters
placeOfBirth Quimper, France NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Paris
surface form: Paris, France
theme consumer culture
language and typography
mass media
politics
urban life
usedMaterial advertising posters
found paper
political posters
street posters
workLocation France
Paris, France NERFINISHED

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Nouveau Réalisme hasMember Jacques Villeglé