Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802 in Villers-Cotterets northeast of Paris, France. His paternal grandfather was a French nobleman and his paternal grandmother was a black slave from Santo Dominque, which is now part of Haiti. The father Thomas was a general in Napoleon's army and fell into disfavor, rendering his family impoverished. General Dumas died in 1806 when Alexandre was four years old leaving his mother to raise him under difficult circumstances.
Even though Alexandre had little education, he loved books and read whatever he could. His mother's stories of his father's adventures spurred his imagination. After the restoration of the monarchy, twenty-year-old Alexandre moved to Paris and worked for Palais Royal . He wrote articles for magazine as well as plays. At age 25 Alexandre had his first success as a playwright with the play Henry III and his Court.
He wrote hundreds of books, so many in fact, that he had other writers assist him. Dumas married in 1840. A son named after him followed in his footsteps. Alexandre made and lost several fortunes with his writing and after years of traveling and writing, he died a poor man on December 5, 1870. The most famous of his works was The Three Musketeers followed by The Count of Monte Cristo.
Pierre Jean Varet est né en 1956 à Paris.
Membre de la Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques (ADAGP).
Prix du Ministère de la Culture (Centre Georges Pompidou Beaubourg Paris) - Prix du Conseil Général de l'Yonne.
Prix Symposium Art Kollage, Plovdiv (Bulgarie) - Prix du Ministère de la Culture (Bulgarie). Médaille d'argent, Académie Arts Sciences & Lettres, Paris - Prix Art Collage, Bruxelles (Belgique).
Spécialiste de l'histoire et des techniques de l'art du collage, il dispense cours et conférence depuis 1998. Il est l'auteur de 9 ouvrages consacrés à cet art.
ll est également fondateur d'Artcolle (1992) puis du salon international du collage contemporain à Paris (22 éditions depuis 1994), du centre de documentation sur l'art du collage (1998), du musée du collage Artcolle à Sergines (2000) puis à Plémet (2011), de l'Art Collage Alliance (Alliance Internationale des organisations de l'art du collage) en 2009, d' Artcolle Web Mafagine en 2014, et l'organisateur ou co-organisateur de près de trois cents expositions consacrées à l'art du collage, en France et à l'étranger.
" Je n'ai pas la sensation de faire de la peinture, mais plutôt de réaliser, à l'aide des techniques mixtes & de quelques papiers collés, des poèmes que j'aurais eu la paresse - ou la lucidité - de ne pas écrire.
Entre assemblage et collage de mots (poésie) et assemblage et collage de matériaux (collage), il n'y a qu'un jeu de mot qui diffère du point de vue de l'action.
On peut coller des poèmes, comme on peut peindre des collages : si le sentiment poétique est le point de départ de la composition, la poésie peut se passer de la plume, comme la peinture peut se passer de la colle ".
