François Pluchart [SEP] date of birth
François Pluchart
François Pluchart (5 August 1937 – 27 November 1988) was a French art critic and a journalist.
He was one of the theorists of Body art in France, with artists like Michel Journiac and Gina Pane and founded the art journal ArTitudes.
An intimate circle of people support his work leading François Pluchart to state in the review "Combat" during the André Weil Gallery show in 1963: "The Parisian fashion and intellectual circle has found its painter".
During the year of 1961, he interprets the role of the bishop Cauchon in Robert Bresson's "The Trial of Joan of Arc".
A show in Casablanca in 1954, made him known in Morocco where he lived for several years. He painted the portraits of Lalla Malika, the sister of