PHOTO: JEAN COCTEAU, ORPHÉE, 1950 - DVD; B&W; 91 MINUTES - BY ARRANGEMENT WITH BFI - IMAGES SUPPLIED BY BFI STILLS
JEAN COCTEAU French artist and writer, who made his name widely known in poetry, fiction, film, ballet, painting, and opera. Jean Cocteau's works reflect the influence of surrealism, psychoanalysis, cubism, Catholic Religion; occasionally they were opium influenced. In his time Cocteau was a promoter of avant-garde styles and fashions. His friends included such prominent figures as Pablo Picasso, the composer Erik Satie, the writer Marcel Proust, and the Russian director Serge Diaghilev.
This image is included in Narcissus Reflected, a group exhibition exploring the power of the Narcissus myth in art, photography, installation and film, which also includes work by Salvador Dalì, Cecil Beaton and Claude Cahun. The exhibition runs at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sunday 26 June.
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