Alphonse Allais (20 October 1854 in Honfleur – 28 October 1905 in Paris ) was a French writer, journalist and humorist . He was also the editor of the Chat Noir , a satirical magazine.
21-901: Allais is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), French writer and humorist David Allais (born 1933), American businessman and inventor Émile Allais (1912–2012), French alpine ski racer Jean-Jacques Allais (born 1969), French professional footballer Lucy Allais , philosopher Maurice Allais (1911–2010), French economist. Max Allais, musical artist Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais (1773–1842), French genealogist and littérateur Pierre Allais (c. 1700–1782), French painter and pastel artist See also [ edit ] Allais, Kentucky , unincorporated community and coal town in Perry County, Kentucky, United States Allai , disambiguation Allais effect , claimed anomalous precession of
42-563: A lobster and tomatoes by the Red Sea], or Chinois transportant du maïs sur le Fleuve Jaune par un temps d'été ensoleillé ["Chinamen" transporting corn on the Yellow River in the sunny summer]. The publication of Allais's book of monochrome artworks predated Kazimir Malevich 's Black Square and Red Square printings by nearly two decades. It was reported in 2015 that X-ray analysis of one version of Malevich's Black Square had uncovered
63-516: A similar red work Apoplectic Cardinals Harvesting Tomatoes on the Shore of the Red Sea (Aurora Borealis Effect) (1884). Allais published his Album primo-avrilesque in 1897, a monograph with seven monochrome artworks, accompanied by the score of his silent funeral march. (Bilhaud was not the first to create an all-black artwork: for example, Robert Fludd published an image of "Darkness" in his 1617 book on
84-413: A thousand different colours to express their painful conceptions] and that his ideal artist employed "pour une toile une couleur ... monochroïdal" [for one canvas one colour ... monochromatic]. In the preface to the funeral march, for "un grand homme sourd" [a great deaf man], Allais wrote that "les grandes douleurs sont muettes" [great pains are silent]. Allais exhibited his first monochrome artwork at
105-561: A tunnel], which had been intended by Bilhaud as a satirical response to Impressionism . Bilhaud was not the first to create an all-black artwork: for example, Robert Fludd published an image of Darkness in his 1617 book on the origin and structure of the cosmos; Laurence Sterne included a black page in his novel Tristram Shandy in 1760, immediately after the death of Parson Yorick; and Bertall published his black Vue de La Hogue (effet de nuit) in Les Omnibus no.7 in 1843, satirising
126-434: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alphonse Allais He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings. A poet as much as a humorist , he cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme (all verses are homophonous, where entire lines are pronounced the same). For example: Par les bois du djinn où s'entasse de l'effroi, Parle et bois du gin, ou cent tasses de lait froid. Allais wrote
147-614: Is the only monochrome by Alphonse Allais identified to date, classified as a National Treasure on May 7, 2021 by decision of the Ministry of Culture. In February 2024, the work made its world premiere in the exhibition "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Parigi 1881-1901" at the Palazzo Roverella , in Rovigo, Italy. The Alphonse Allais Museum, also called Le Petit Musée, in Honfleur, claiming to be
168-549: The Club of the Hydropaths (those allergic to water). He was a journalist, columnist and editor as well. A film based on his novel L'Affaire Blaireau appeared in 1958 as Neither Seen Nor Recognized . Earlier versions with the same title as the original novel appeared in 1923 and 1932 . Miles Kington , humorous writer and musician, translated some of Allais' pieces into idiomatic English as The World of Alphonse Allais (UK). In
189-499: The French expert Johann Naldi, a specialist in nineteenth-century art, discovered among a previously unpublished set of seventeen works of Incoherents "Des souteneurs encore dans la force de l'âge et le ventre dans l'herbe boivent de l'absinthe" , consisting of a green carriage curtain embellished with a cartel with a title. Executed before 1897, when Allais was compiling his monochroidal experiments in his Album primo-avrilesque , this work
210-657: The Salon des Arts Incohérents of 1883 and 1884, held at the Galerie Vivienne . At these, inspired by his friend Paul Bilhaud 's 1882 exhibit of an entirely black painting entitled "Negroes fight in a tunnel" (which he later reproduced with a slightly different title), Allais exhibited arguably some of the earliest examples of monochrome painting : for instance his plain white sheet of Bristol paper Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige (First Communion of Anemic Young Girls In The Snow) (1883), and
231-588: The United States, Doug Skinner has translated fifteen books by Allais, including Captain Cap and his only novel. Honfleur has a street, rue Alphonse Allais , and a school, Collège Alphonse Allais , named for him. There is a Place Alphonse-Allais in the 20th arrondissement of Paris . The Académie Alphonse-Allais has awarded an annual prize, the Prix Alphonse-Allais , in his honor since 1954. In 2018,
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#1733085326981252-534: The earliest known example of a completely silent musical composition. His Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Great Deaf Man of 1897 consists of 24 blank measures. It predates similarly silent but intellectually serious works by John Cage and Erwin Schulhoff by many years. His prose piece "Story for Sara" was translated and illustrated by Edward Gorey . Allais participated in humorous exhibitions, including those of
273-482: The origin and structure of the cosmos; and Bertall published his black Vue de La Hogue (effet de nuit) in 1843.) However, Allais's activity bears more similarity to 20th century Dada , or Neo-Dada , and particularly the works of the Fluxus group of the 1960s, than to 20th century monochrome painting since Malevich . While consuming absinthe at café tables, Allais wrote 1600 newspaper and magazine pieces, and co-founded
294-628: The plane of oscillation of a pendulum during a solar eclipse Allais paradox , choice problem designed by Maurice Allais [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Allais . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allais&oldid=1163177972 " Categories : Surnames French-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
315-459: The score for a silent funeral march , with blank staves covering two pages. Each piece was given a humorous title in French. The booklet also includes two prefaces in French, one for the monochrome artworks and one for the funeral march. In the preface to the monochromes, Allais wrote that other painters were "ridicules artisans qui ont besoin de mille couleurs différentes pour exprimer leurs pénibles conceptions" [ridiculous craftsmen who need
336-510: The second Salon des Arts Incohérents in Paris in 1883: his all-white Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par temps de neige [First communion of anaemic young girls in snowy weather] – a blank sheet of white Bristol paper , attached to a wall with four drawing pins . He showed another monochrome work, the all-red Récolte de tomates sur le bord de la mer Rouge par des cardinaux apoplectiques [Apoplectic cardinals harvesting tomatoes on
357-435: The shore of the Red Sea], at the third Incoherents show in 1884, along with his silent funeral march. The exhibition catalogue notes that the red monochrome is an offering of Peter's pence to Pope Leo XIII . Allais's monochromes were inspired by an all-black artwork exhibited by his friend Paul Bilhaud at the first Salon des Arts Incohérents in 1882 under the title Combat de nègres dans un tunnel [Negroes fighting in
378-468: The smallest museum in France (8 m ), consists of a small collection of "rarities", including the skull of Voltaire at age seventeen and a true piece of a False Cross ( cf. True Cross ), as well as inventions such as a special Chinese teacup made for left-handed people (cf. chawan ), blue, white, and red starch to keep flags flying when there is no wind, black confetti for widows, and so on. The museum
399-815: The very dark canvas exhibited at the 1843 Salon by Jean-Louis Petit. In Either/Or (1843), Søren Kierkegaard gives the story of an artist painting the Israelites crossing the Red Sea, painting a wall red, and contending that the Israelites had crossed and the Egyptians had drowned.' Allais's joke was repeated by Émile Cohl , himself formerly a member of the Incoherents, in a cinema film in 1910, Le Peintre néo-impressionniste [The Neo-Impressionistic Painter], which included intertitle cards introducing monochrome presentations, such as Un cardinal mangeant une langouste aux tomates sur les bords de la Mer Rouge [A cardinal eating
420-528: Was founded on the second floor in Allais' parents' pharmacy in 1999 by the owner of the pharmacy, and moved to a new location in 2019 (rue des Petites boucheries). Two non-profit organizations celebrate Allais: Album primo-avrilesque Album primo-avrilesque is a monograph by French writer, artist and humourist Alphonse Allais . The slim volume of 26 octavo landscape pages, 18.5 by 12 centimetres (7.3 in × 4.7 in), bound with card,
441-468: Was published by Paul Ollendorff [ fr ] in Paris on 1 April 1897, and was sold for one franc. The work is generally known by its French title, which may be translated into English as "April Fool-ish album". The artist's book includes eight printed pieces: a series of seven monochrome artworks , each a solid block of a single colour – black, blue, green, yellow (or brown), red, grey, white – displayed within an ornamental frame, followed by
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