#Sophie Matisse

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NE PAS LES OUBLIER!

Enzo Parissot , 15 ans, poignardé à mort pour '' un regard ''

- Thomas, 23 ans, massacré de 8 coups de couteau

- Thomas, 16 ans, poignardé à mort par des '' jeunes de cité '' venus '' tuer du blanc "

- Matisse, 15 ans, poignardé à mort par un afghan sous OQTF -

Arnaud Beltrame, gendarme assassiné en service

- Mireille Knoll , 85 ans

- Lola, 12 ans, massacrée gratuitement par Dhabia B

- Samuel Paty, prof décapité par l'islamiste Abdoullakh Anzorov

- Axelle Dorier, 22 ans, tuée et trainée sur 800 mètres sur la route p

- Cabu, assassiné avec 11 autres personnes

- Père Hamel, égorgé en pleine messe

- Marion, 14 ans, violée et massacrée de 68 coups de couteau

- Myriam Monsonégo, 8 ans, assassinée dans son école

- Léana, 2 ans, tuée avec 85 personnes sur la promenade des anglais à Nice

- Laura et Mauranne, 20 ans, égorgées et éventrées

- Olivier Quenault, tabassé à mort- Fabrice Moello et Arnaud Garcia , assassinés

- Jessica et Jean-Baptiste, égorgés devant leur fils de 3 ans

- Philippe Mongillot

- Dominique Bernard, prof d'histoire égorgé

- Sandra, violée et assassinée

- Joachim Tougeron , assassiné

- Nathalie Jardin, assassinée avec 130 personnes au Bataclan

- Alban Gervaise, 41 ans, égorgé devant ses enfants

- Philippe Mathot, 72 ans, battu à mort

- Adrien Perez, 26 ans, poignardé à mort- Thierry Nivon et Julien Vinson

- Michel Montrichard , 70 ans

- Sophie Gravaud, étranglée à mort

- Nadine Devilliers, Simone Barreto et Vincent Loquès, poignardés à mort

- Estelle Veneut , assassinée et jetée dans la Loire - Mélanie Lemée, 25 ans, gendarme assassinée sur un contrôle routier

- Aurélie Fouquet, 26 ans, policière tuée en service

- Pascal Verdenne, 61 ans, assassiné avec 4 autres personnes sur un marché de Noel

Le nom des meurtriers condamnés ou en cours sont connus.

[emotivamente-ingombrante]

Ho improvvisamente realizzato che le persone che mi circondano hanno figli, sono sposate - o convivono. Altre stanno cercando da tempo di avere figli e io non mi ero nemmeno resa conto. Loro, che credevo non volessero procreare, almeno per il momento, nonostante fossero miei coetanei o quasi, mi facevano sentire in qualche modo meno sola, meno strana, meno “sempre in difetto”. Ora che so come stanno le cose, mi rendo conto di quanto fosse orribile quel pensiero, egoistico e triggerante.

Mi sento davvero una brutta persona adesso: penso di meritarmi che le persone l’unica cosa che abbiamo da chiedermi sia come stanno i miei gatti.

E non fraintendetemi io amo alla follia Matisse e Sophie Kowalsky, sono la mia famiglia a tutti gli effetti, ma capisco anche che sentir parlare delle esperienze con il proprio compagno o con la propria figlia duenne sia emotivamente più coinvolgente che sentir parlare della vita con due gatti.

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[ID: 8 gifs from Leverage comparing a scene of Sterling walking through a museum, talking to a security guard and related scenes from other episodes of Leverage.

1: Sterling: Eliot Spencer?

Security guard: Eliot Spencer, wanted in five countries, including [highlight] Myanmar [end highlight].

2: Eliot sits at a table in McRory's pub and rolls up his sleeve to show off a scar on his arm.

Eliot: [highlight] Myanmar [end highlight]. Sniper.

3: Sterling: Parker?

Security guard: Parker, wanted in nine countries, including [highlight] Brazil [end highlight] and Yemen.

4: Craig Mattingly, to Parker: 5 years ago, I was casing out the Chácara do Céu Museum in [highlight] Rio [end highlight] and you boosted a Matisse right in the middle of Carnaval!

5: Sterling: How about Sophie Devereaux?

Security guard: England, France, Spain, Luxembourg. [highlight] Europe, [end highlight] basically.

6: Sophie, to Nate: We did the [highlight] Copenhagen [end highlight] job in '97, the [highlight] Berlin [end highlight] Polytech job in '98... oh, remember that great run in [highlight] Moscow! [end highlight]

7: Sterling: Alec Hardison?

Security guard: Well, he'd better not show his face in [highlight] Iceland. [end highlight]

8: A flashback of Hardison in high school sitting at his computer.

Hardison: Looks like the Bank of [highlight] Iceland [end highlight] is paying off Nana's medical bills.

End ID]

(Leverage) Character Appreciation Week//[Free Day] Friday: fav continuity boner

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De-moiselles d’Avignon, 2007 par Sophie Matisse

[becauseimfrenchandproudofit]

Sophie Matisse, granddaughter of Henri Matisse, standing beside Matisse work (Blue Nude III) made in 1952

[artoharte]

actividad del día (de hoy)

Courbet, Manet, Monet, Matisse, Derain, Egon Schiele, Munch, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Picasso, Tristan Tzara, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Man Ray, De Chirico, Duchamp, Kandinski, Mondrian, Pollock... Lo discutimos hace unas semanas en clase: ¿por qué sólo hombres!

Les recomiendo hoy este agudo ensayo de Linda Nochlin sobre el patriarcado y la misoginia en el (h)arte: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

Aquí algunas cosas que subrayé del texto:

Aceptar lo «natural» puede ser intelectualmente fatal. La naturalización se registra en la dominación inconsciente.

(Artemisia Gentileschi, Mme. Vigee-Lebrun, Angelica Kauffmann, Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, Suzanne Valadon, Kaethe Kollwitz, Barbara Hepworth, Georgia O'Keeffe, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Helen Frankenthaler, Birdget Riley, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Nevelson, any more than that of Sappho, Marie de France, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, George Sand, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Anai's Nin, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Susan Sontag.)

La diferencia, quizá, entre la mirada femenina y la mirada masculina tiene que ver con el volumen. La mirada masculina es mucho más ancha, tiene más referencias y está mejor alimentada. Más y mejor cuidada.

[...] nor have there been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists or Eskimo tennis players. If women have in fact achieved the same status as men in the arts, then the status quo is fine. But… In the arts as in a hundred other areas, things remain stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those —women included— who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male.

The problem lies not so much with the feminists' concept of what femininity in art is, but rather with a misconception of what art is: with the naive idea that art is the direct, personal expression of individual emotional experience —a translation of personal life into visual terms.

The making of art involves a self-consistent language of form, more or less dependent upon, or free from, given temporally-defined conventions, schemata, or systems of notation, which have to be learned or worked out, through study, apprenticeship, or a long period of [social] experimentation.

What proportion of major artists came from families in which their fathers or other close relatives were engaged in related professions?

Piaget: la habilidad y la inteligencia se construye poco a poco, y los patrones de adaptación se establecen de forma tan sutil que parecen naturales.

Hopefully, by stressing the institutional, or the public, rather than the individual, or private, preconditions for achievement in the arts, we have provided a paradigm for the investigation of other areas in the field.

using their situation as underdogs and outsiders as a vantage point, women can reveal institutional and intellectual weaknesses in general, and, at the same time that they destroy false consciousness, take part in the creation of institutions in which clear thought and true greatness are challenges open to anyone —man or woman— courageous enough to take the necessary risk, the leap into the unknown.

Aceptar lo «natural» puede ser intelectualmente fatal. La naturalización se registra en la dominación inconsciente. Y la dominación inconsciente es esta: el artista es aquel con talento. ¡Falso! El arte se crea de manera institucional y pública. Contra el ego, el carácter individual y exclusivo, la mirada femenina, feminista: el arte horizontal, comunal, público y abierto, abierto a lo desconocido.

ACTIVIDAD DEL DÍA

Relaciona tres fragmentos del ensayo de Linda Nochlin con tres acciones distintas de las Gerrilla Girls. ¿Quiénes son las Guerrilla Girls? ¡Pues gugléalas!

En un documento, copia y pega el fragmento del ensayo de Linda Nochlin + una imagen de las Guerrilla Girls + una explicación de cómo se relaciona una cosa con la otra. Y sube eso al Canvas entre hoy y el viernes.

posdata:

En Sonus tienen programados dos ejercicios de preposiciones para esta semana: 1. Localización, 2. Clasificación.

Y para Álex deben corregir hoy el texto que subieron la semana pasada.

¿Otra cosa? ¿Les cambio el último examen de comprensión lectora de Conjunto vacío para el lunes? Va va va, les cambio el último examen de comprensión lectora de Conjunto vacío para el lunes. Terminen de leer el libro de Verónica Gerber Bicecci antes de su clase del lunes 13 de marzo.

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Sophie Matisse

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I made a dress and a hat out of canvas cloth.

Disclaimer: Okay, before anything else, I just want to say that this is part of my final project in one of my major classes. I am no fashion designer nor a dressmaker, but I tried my best to execute this concept. Just letting you know lol  :)

Let’s start with the materials that I used. This is an eco-friendly project, so I avoided buying anything new. I used a primed canvas roll that I already have here with me (I usually use this for painting but I wanted to experiment and see if I could make fashion garment out of it.), acrylic paints, cardboard (for structure), some tape and of course my sewing kit. I don’t own a sewing machine so I had to sew everything by hand.

The brim of the hat is 18” in size and the center hole (that should be the side band for the hat) is 7”.

I copied the structure of a real hat, made the measurements needed and started drawing (which is the fun part). I have never drawn doodles before, so this also has been a learning experience for me. 

I wish I made a time lapse for this but by the time I realized I should film it; the hat was almost done... my bad.

Now let’s move on to the dress! (This one has a time-lapse! Yey!)

Since I wanted the dress to match the hat, it was a lot easier to make the design because I could just repeat the drawings that I did from the hat. The dress I made is a two-piece with the same dominant colors, teal and orange.

I used my old black dress as a reference to get the right ratio around my waistline. Like I said, I’m no fashion designer so I don’t know how to do the measurements right and I also went to Pinterest for extra help and luckily I found the perfect pattern for my top piece.

Courtesy of Pinterest

Here’s a time-lapse video of the process so you’ll see how I worked on the dress by hand:

CW: My face will appear at the end of this video, you have been warned.

My sister said I looked like a Dr. Seuss character and honestly, I don’t hate that idea lol. This is definitely something I’ll wear in public for attention. The canvas fabric is also airy, and it’s perfect for a hot summer. 

I wouldn’t be able to pull this off if I didn’t have existing artworks to draw inspiration from.

Great Still Life on a Pedestal by Pablo Picasso, 1931

I used a few elements from this piece. (ex: pink plaid and the big squiggles)

It’s Time by Sophie Matisse, 2012

This piece inspired the color palette that I wanted for this project. I used teal and orange as the dominant colors. Blue, purple and yellow as accents.

Hope you enjoyed reading through this! If you made it this far!

- Jo. Frances

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Marcel Duchamp - Nudo che scende una scala - 1912

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Cutouts by Matisse.

"At first, Matisse worried that working with cut paper was cheating—a shortcut to painting—and he kept it a secret. “It is necessary not to say anything about this,” he wrote to his son Pierre, in 1931. Some of the works at moma began as compositional aids—studies for paintings or posters that could be moved and manipulated before the compositions themselves were made."

https://www.newyorker.com/.../moma-cutouts-sophie-matisse

Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France, on December 31, 1869. He embarked on a career in law, but took up painting while recovering from appendicitis. 

Photos by Helene Adant, “Matisse in Vence with scissors and gouache cut-outs”. 1947-1948 B&W Photograph Cameraphoto, Venice

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Miscellaneous OCs Part 2

Name: Sophie Sterling.  Title: Bodyguard: Prey.  Fandom: Bodyguard. Summary: “In a constantly changing world, the need for protection grows. A teenager is the least likely suspect for a protector- but that's exactly what Clara Heafley relies on to do her job. Her job? Being a professional bodyguard trained in surveillance, anti-ambush techniques, hostage survival and unarmed combat. When she's given the task to protect the Prime Minister's daughter, her protection skills face the ultimate test. Carla however, doesn't want protection. She just wants to have a normal life. Unaware that Clara is her bodyguard, she tries to hide from security while taking Clara along for the ride. But unknown to her and Clara, her father's rival is not willing to accept defeat. And with a common tactic being to target enemies loved ones, this anger slowly morphs him into a vulture, with the Prime Minister's daughter being his prey.” Quotev Link Faceclaim/Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Name: Aleena Rayes.  Title: Bodyguard; Prey.  Fandom: Bodyguard.  Summary: “In a constantly changing world, the need for protection grows. A teenager is the least likely suspect for a protector- but that's exactly what Clara Heafley relies on to do her job. Her job? Being a professional bodyguard trained in surveillance, anti-ambush techniques, hostage survival and unarmed combat. When she's given the task to protect the Prime Minister's daughter, her protection skills face the ultimate test. Carla however, doesn't want protection. She just wants to have a normal life. Unaware that Clara is her bodyguard, she tries to hide from security while taking Clara along for the ride. But unknown to her and Clara, her father's rival is not willing to accept defeat. And with a common tactic being to target enemies loved ones, this anger slowly morphs him into a vulture, with the Prime Minister's daughter being his prey.” Quotev Link Faceclaim/Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Name: Taio Woodward.  Title: Bodyguard: Prey.  Fandom: Bodyguard.  Sumamary: “In a constantly changing world, the need for protection grows. A teenager is the least likely suspect for a protector- but that's exactly what Clara Heafley relies on to do her job. Her job? Being a professional bodyguard trained in surveillance, anti-ambush techniques, hostage survival and unarmed combat. When she's given the task to protect the Prime Minister's daughter, her protection skills face the ultimate test. Carla however, doesn't want protection. She just wants to have a normal life. Unaware that Clara is her bodyguard, she tries to hide from security while taking Clara along for the ride. But unknown to her and Clara, her father's rival is not willing to accept defeat. And with a common tactic being to target enemies loved ones, this anger slowly morphs him into a vulture, with the Prime Minister's daughter being his prey.“ Quotev Link Faceclaim/Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Name: Mateo Lopez.  Title: Bodyguard: Prey.  Fandom: Bodyguard.  Summary: “In a constantly changing world, the need for protection grows. A teenager is the least likely suspect for a protector- but that's exactly what Clara Heafley relies on to do her job. Her job? Being a professional bodyguard trained in surveillance, anti-ambush techniques, hostage survival and unarmed combat. When she's given the task to protect the Prime Minister's daughter, her protection skills face the ultimate test. Carla however, doesn't want protection. She just wants to have a normal life. Unaware that Clara is her bodyguard, she tries to hide from security while taking Clara along for the ride. But unknown to her and Clara, her father's rival is not willing to accept defeat. And with a common tactic being to target enemies loved ones, this anger slowly morphs him into a vulture, with the Prime Minister's daughter being his prey.“ Quotev Link Faceclaim/Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Name: Carla Terry.  Title: Bodyguard: Prey.  Fandom: Bodyguard.  Summary: “In a constantly changing world, the need for protection grows. A teenager is the least likely suspect for a protector- but that's exactly what Clara Heafley relies on to do her job. Her job? Being a professional bodyguard trained in surveillance, anti-ambush techniques, hostage survival and unarmed combat. When she's given the task to protect the Prime Minister's daughter, her protection skills face the ultimate test. Carla however, doesn't want protection. She just wants to have a normal life. Unaware that Clara is her bodyguard, she tries to hide from security while taking Clara along for the ride. But unknown to her and Clara, her father's rival is not willing to accept defeat. And with a common tactic being to target enemies loved ones, this anger slowly morphs him into a vulture, with the Prime Minister's daughter being his prey.“ Quotev Link Faceclaim/Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice: Summary of Series: TBA.  Fandom: Powerpuff Girls. 

*Bluebell- new powerpuff girl created by the professor.  *Marshall- powerpuff boy created by Blossom.  *Maple- powerpuff girl created by Blossom.  *Matisse- non-binary powerpuff created by Blossom. 

Sonic: The Next Generation: Summary of Series: TBA.  Fandom: Sonic 

*Noah- son of Sonic and Amy.  *Blair- daughter of Sonic and Amy.  *Mason- son of Shadow and Sally.  *Maria- daughter of Shadow and Sally.  *Lucy- daughter of Tails and Cream.  *Ember- daughter of Knuckles and Rogue.  *Quartz and Onyx- twin sons of Knuckles and Rogue.  *Elijah Middleston- apprentice of Egghead. 

The Mushroom Kingdom’s New Heroes: Summary of Story: TBA.  Fandom: Mario. 

*Nicolo- son of Mario and Peach. *Alessia- daughter of Mario and Peach.  *Mariella- daughter of Luigi and Daisy.  *Bianca- apprentice of Rosaline.  *Bowser III- son of Bowser. JR and grandson of Bowser.  *Toad. JR- son of Toad and unknown.  *Yoshi. JR, Spotty and Yoshiette- triplets of Yoshi. 

The Adventures of Pixie Hollow:  Summary of Story: “The newest fairy born in Pixie Hollow is Gale, a fast-flying talent. Together with her friends, she'll have many adventure in Pixie Hollow and beyond. “ Quotev Link Fandom: Disney Fairies. 

*Gale- Fast Flying fairy girl.  *Helena- Light fairy girl.  *Serene- Water fairy girl.  *Joan- Dust fairy girl.  *Thorn- Garden fairy boy.  *Bolt- Tinker fairy boy. 

The Loud House: Next Generation: Summary of Series: TBA.  Fandom: The Loud House. 

*Lori X Bobby= Emilia (oldest), Jorge (middle) and Paula Casagrande (youngest). *Leni X Chaz= Sadie Loud.  *Lincoln X Ronnie= Lucia (oldest) and Rodrigo Loud (youngest). *Luna X Sam= Melody Sharp-Loud.  *Lola X Winston= Lucas Loud.  *Lucy X Silas= Wednesday Loud.  *Lynn X Francisco= Mark, Steven and Diane Loud (triplets). *Lana X Skippy= Laura Loud.  *Luan X Benny= Gordon and Simon Stein (twins). *Lisa X David= Christopher Loud.  *Clyde X Penelope= Dorothy McBride.  *Rusty X Unknown= Kevin Spokes.  *Liam X Unknown= Ethan and Chloe Hunnicutt (twins). *Stella X Unknown= Sydney Zhou.  *Sid X Unknown= Niya Chang. 

Second Star To The Right And Straight On ‘Till Morning: Summary of Story: TBA. Fandom: Peter Pan. 

*Catherine Martin- daughter of Margaret and Noah, granddaughter of Jane and Ethan- Great-Granddaughter of Wendy and Edward- Wife of James and mother of Patricia and Helen.  *Patricia Martin- daughter of Catherine and James.  *Helen Martin- daughter of Catherine and James. 

Gotta Catch Them All: Summary of Series: TBA. Fandom: Pokemon. 

*Misako Sasaki- female lead.  *Shiki Yamada- girl who travels with Misako.  *Reo Mori- boy who travels with Misako.  *Hibiki Aoki- one of the two bad guys. *Kaito Inoue- one of the two bad guys. 

M.I High: A New Team: Summary of Series: TBA. Fandom: M.I High.

*Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Brown- one of the agents.  *Alice Portes- one of the agents.  *Parker Heafley- one of the agents.  *M.7.3.E.L.1.A.9/Ella- clone of the mastermind whose saved.  *R.7.4.B.E.7.H.0/Beth- clone of the mastermind whose not saved. 

[redlabopedagogique]

#Les ateliers de Sophie

Nos tasses de café. Les oiseaux. Les arbres verts

Aux ombrages bleus et le soleil qui saute d’un

Mur à l’autre telle la gazelle ...

L’eau des nuages aux formes infinies

Dans ce qui nous reste de ciel,

Et d’autres choses encore dont le souvenir est remis

à plus tard,

Montrent que ce matin est fort, resplendissant,

Et que nous sommes les hôtes de l’éternité.

Mahmoud Darwich.

[emotivamente-ingombrante]

Lizzie è la bambina mostro che vive nella mia camera da letto.

Stiamo cercando di andare d accordo e condividere lo spazio dopo quattro anni.

Stanotte è stata molto brava, mi ha lasciata dormire fino a che non mi ha svegliata per farmi notare che tutte le persone che mi dicono che “ognuno ha il proprio percorso di vita” sono esattamente tutte persone che stanno facendo percorsi socialmente accettabili.

Complicati, complicatissimi, in certe situazioni, che io manco mi ci sarei messa per codardia e non ce non l’avrei fatta se mi ci fossi trovata in mezzo ma case di proprietà a 35 anni, compagni, matrimoni, figli in arrivo o già fatti sono lo specchio del canone sociale convenzionale.

E con questo non vi è assolutamente nulla di male - solo la mia sciocca invidia delle volte, credo.

E poi ci sono io con il mio colabrodo di vita che in qualche modo amo follemente perché rispecchia il mio percorso border, nel bene e nel male, e lo sforzo per creare un’identità coesa il più possibile, bche esulto fortissimo perché sono le prime tre notti che dormo nel letto e non sul divano - spoiler alert vivo in questa casa da quattro anni e un letto ce l’ho sempre avuto - o che decido che il mio piccolo progetto per il 2023 sia costruire un fisico forte - forte davvero dico e sono felice perché per circa un mese consecutivo mi sono presa cura di me stessa provando a volermi bene.

Non c’è contatto, reciprocità perché io mi interesserò sempre a bambini, gravidanze, matrimoni o case da arredare commuovendomi come una cretina ogni volta ma nessuno si interesserà mai alle mie scapole addotte o ai miei compromessi con Lizzie o all’essermi cucinata la cena senza mangiare una scatoletta di tonno seduta per terra vicino a Matisse e Sophie per non cenare da sola - ancora.

Non è questione di confronto credo, è questione di solitudine.

E domani, comunque, io in palestra ci vado perché disciplina > motivazione.

[nazaninlankarani]

A 20-Year Legacy of Support for French Artists

A show at the Pompidou Center highlights the work of Kapwani Kiwanga, winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, and those who won before her.

Kapwani Kiwanga’s “Flowers for Africa” is a series of installations that consist of elaborately arranged fresh flowers. © Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

PARIS — The conceptual artist Kapwani Kiwanga, whose latest exhibition here recreates elaborate floral arrangements from archival photographs to capture a moment in time, was awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp on Monday in a celebration that also marked the 20th anniversary of the prize.

The award, viewed as France’s answer to Britain’s Turner Prize, is named after one of France’s most influential 20th-century artists and is given to an artist born or working in France. Ms. Kiwanga, a native of Canada, works in Paris.

The winner was announced by Bernard Blistène, director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Pompidou Center.

“At a time of rising nationalism around the world, it is important to emphasize that this is not a ‘nationalistic’ prize, but the recognition of an international artist who is part of the French art scene,” said Mr. Blistène, who also presides over the seven-person jury. Members include Gitte Orskou, director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and Marie-Cécile Zinsou, president of the Zinsou Foundation in Benin, in West Africa.

The award ceremony at the museum went ahead despite the pandemic that forced the cancellation of the annual International Contemporary Art Fair, or FIAC. The fair, which would have opened on Thursday, is usually the focal point of a buoyant week of art-filled events in the French capital. This year, the ceremony was held against a background of global travel restrictions compounded by a local nighttime curfew in place in Paris.

“It isn’t because we are going through a terrible period that this public institution should not stand for hope for the future,” Mr. Blistène said.

After studying anthropology and comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Ms. Kiwanga attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. © Manuel Braun

With the prize Ms. Kiwanga was awarded 35,000 euros (about $41,000). The other nominees were Alice Anderson, Hicham Berrada and Enrique Ramírez, selected by a committee of the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art, a group of about 400 art collectors that created the prize.

The appropriation of history is the subject of “Flowers for Africa,” a series of installations by Ms. Kiwanga that consist of elaborately arranged fresh flowers, suspended as a garland from the ceiling or set in bouquets on pedestals. Each is a “reconstruction” of a floral arrangement the artist has gleaned from an archival photograph of an official ceremony marking the independence of an African country.

“The flowers wilt and dry over time and must be replaced according to a protocol,” said Ms. Kiwanga, who is 42. “They capture a moment in history.”

Sophie Duplaix, the chief curator at the Pompidou Center, where works by the nominees will be displayed through early January, said that “all four artists have touched on the notion of time and its impact on the individual and society.”

“That common thread helped us bring harmony to a show that we hope will resonate with the public, especially in a period when we are all reconsidering our own relationship with time,” she said.

In “Flowers for Africa,” Ms. Kiwanga examines that connection by confronting history and botany. History is retold through the life cycle of flowers left to wilt for the duration of the exhibition. Her reconstruction of ceremonial bouquets underscores the shortcomings of capturing history.

“The project was born out of my own frustration at looking at images that seemed always to depict political leaders present at independence ceremonies,” she said. “I wanted to look beyond those central figures and focus on the flower arrangements, which were witnesses on the sidelines of those historical events.”

After studying anthropology and comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Ms. Kiwanga attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Hicham Berrada’s “Présage, SiO2” is a 12-minute video showing the reaction that occurs when he pours silicon dioxide to activate a controlled chemical reaction in a glass tank filled with a mixture of acid and water. © By Dmitry Kostyukov For The New York Times

This year is also the 20th anniversary of the Duchamp prize, and to mark this milestone, a six-month exhibition at the museum honors previous winners.

“I believe in French art for its spirit, its elegance and its joie de vivre,” said Gilles Fuchs, a collector and president of the association.

“This prize recognizes an artist whose innovative practice is representative of a generation and reflects the creativity of the French art scene,” he added. “The 20th-anniversary show is evidence of our continued support of the artists.”

Mr. Blistène said the award “is not driven by ‘market’ interests.” He added that the association collectors “are not motivated by commercial interests nor by mundane or ‘domestic’ considerations like whether they can hang the art in their living rooms.” Among the other nominees, Mr. Berrada’s artistic practice sits at the junction of science and nature. His installation, “Présage, SiO2,” is a 12-minute video showing the reaction that occurs when he pours silicon dioxide, a component used in making concrete, to activate a controlled chemical reaction in a glass tank filled with a mixture of acid and water. A mesmerizing landscape of moving shapes is captured in the video, projected onto a large screen. Mr. Berrada, 34, a native of Morocco, lives and works in Paris and Roubaix, in northern France.

Alice Anderson’s work is made up of drawings, dance movements and totemic sculptures constructed from everyday objects wrapped in copper thread. © Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

The French-born Alice Anderson, 47, reflects on memory in a presentation made up of drawings, dance movements and totemic sculptures constructed from “recorded” everyday objects — like a computer mouse or a mobile phone — wrapped in copper thread, that connect man to technology.

“Technology is driving a change of civilization,” Ms. Anderson said. “These objects are mummified to be preserved.”

On a wall in the space dedicated to Mr. Ramírez, 41, a Chilean multimedia artist who lives and works in Paris and Santiago, are the words: “The future always repeats itself inseparable from the past.” The sentiment ties together several pieces that touch on issues of migration and history.

At the center, a video depicts a man entangled in the twisted fabric of a sail floating in the sea, in what could be interpreted as either a slow struggle for survival or a metaphor for a return to the fetal state inside a womb.

“The sea and the sail evoke both freedom and failure,” Mr. Ramírez said. “My work is less about politics and more about poetry.”

Enrique Ramírez’s work at the Pompidou Center includes a video of a man entangled in the twisted fabric of a sail floating in the sea. © Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

Mr. Fuchs said the ADIAF (it is referred to with its French abbreviation) was founded in 1994 to promote the nation’s art. At the time, French artists were at a low point, their work was being purchased only by the state, and there were few private French art collections.

“Matisse had not been dead very long, yet the French art scene was completed discredited to the point that some even referred to Marcel Duchamp as an American painter,” Mr. Fuchs said.

“But thanks to the support of the Centre Pompidou from Day 1 and our own efforts, this prize has gained the prestige it has today,” he said.

The prize is less a launchpad for young artists than a spotlight on a body of work by more established names like Kader Attia, the 2016 winner, who went on to receive both the Joan Miró Prize and the Yanghyun Prize the next year. For many past winners, the prize has been a genuine boost to their careers, particularly thanks to the three-month show at the Pompidou.

“All prizes and encouragements are welcome in the life of an artist,” Thomas Hirschhorn, a Swiss artist who was awarded the first prize, wrote in a statement to the French press ahead of this year’s announcement.

“As an artist, I need my work to be shown, talked about and critiqued,” he wrote. “What is concrete about this prize and what really mattered to me were the prize money, the funding I received from ADIAF for a new piece, and my show at the Centre Pompidou.”

Laurent Grasso, a French multimedia artist who won in 2008, noted the attention the prize brought him. “Some 45,000 visitors came to my show at the museum,” he said. “This prize generates a lot of positive energy around the work of an artist.”

Upstairs, in the main galleries of the museum, works by all 19 past winners are displayed among pieces from the museum’s permanent collections.

“The dialogue with our historical pieces shows how more recent works fit into an ongoing artistic tradition,” said Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, the curator of the show.

“Some people consider contemporary artists to be engaged in a perpetual reinvention of art,” Mr. Liucci-Goutnikov said. “But this show demonstrates that art is a heritage being constantly renewed.”

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