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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Jacques Villeglé

Artist Jacques Villeglé reflects on Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"These paintings were fresh and new and shocking . . . and they still are alive and interesting to me today."

Artist Jacques Villeglé reflects on Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Jacques Villeglé, born in 1926, is a French mixed-media artist and affichiste.

A vibrant mixed media collage using cut up advertisements and posters by artist Jacques Villeglé

Jacques Villeglé (French, born 1926)

122 rue du temple, 1968

Torn-and-pasted printed paper on canvas; 62 5/8 × 82 3/4 in. (159.2 × 210.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Joachim Aberbach (by exchange) (229.1988) © Jacques Villeglé 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Art Mentioned

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Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Pablo Picasso Spanish, Oil on canvas
Still Life with a Bottle of Rum
Pablo Picasso
1911
Still Life with Banderillas, Georges Braque French, Oil and charcoal with sand on canvas
Still Life with Banderillas
Georges Braque
1911