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  1. Jean Cocteau. 1889–1963. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS. Jean Cocteau had a wide-ranging career as a poet, dramatist, screenwriter, and novelist. “Cocteau’s willingness and ability to turn his hand to the most disparate creative ventures,” James P. Mc Nab wrote in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, “do not fit the ...

  2. 1 of 6. Summary of Jean Cocteau. Jean Cocteau worked across almost every artistic discipline, exploring writing, painting and drawing, theatre and film, linking disparate forms of art making in explorations of myth, contemporary life, dream and sexual identity.

  3. www.moma.org › artists › 1168Jean Cocteau | MoMA

    Cocteau considered himself a poet above all but worked in virtually every medium, including the theater and film. Some of his most important works include the poem L’Ange Heurtebise (1925); the play Orphée (1926); and the novels Les Enfants terribles (1929) and La Machine infernale (1934).

  4. Apr 22, 2024 · Jean Cocteau is painting the chapel of Saint Pierre des Pecheurs Church (Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1957) Jean Cocteau was a master of artistic eclecticism, able to express himself brilliantly in poetry, theater, film and visual arts, innovating and influencing modern art with his unique vision and boundless creativity.

  5. www.wikiwand.com › en › Jean_CocteauJean Cocteau - Wikiwand

    Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( UK: / ˈkɒktoʊ / KOK-toh, US: / kɒkˈtoʊ / kok-TOH, French: [ ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.

  6. Jean Cocteau was a multifaceted intellectual who, from the 1920s to the 1950s, worked as a writer, draftsman, painter, printmaker, stage designer, and filmmaker. Cocteau’s artistic practice was closely tied to his roles as an instigator and patron of the visual and literary French avant-gardes, as well as a socialite.

  7. Jan 18, 2024 · Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (1889-1963) was a prince of bohème. A significant figure in the European art of the 20th century, Cocteau called himself a poet in the broadest sense of the word: a poet, a playwright, a filmmaker, and an artist.

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