Dufrene, Francois Rene, 1930-1982

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Dates:
Birth 1930
Gender:
Male
French,
French, English,

Biographical notes:

Francois Dufrene was born on September 21, 1930 in Paris and was a French Nouveau realist visual artist, Lettrist and Ultra-Lettrist poet. He is primarily known as a pioneer in sound poetry and for his use of décollage within Nouveau réalisme.Dufrene explored vocal possibilities of concrete music, a form of expression based on spontaneity directly recorded to tape, exploiting the noise music of sound, meaning and nonsense.He is considered one of the important artists in that Neo-Dada art movement.

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Subjects:

  • Lettrism
  • Realism in art

Occupations:

  • Artists
  • Poets

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