Marcel Marceau [SEP] native language
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau (; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona as "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence" and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years. As a youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war
In the fifties, Vernazza refused a position as a professor of Theory of Art at the School of Humanities and Sciences at the University of the Republic. He found it against his nature to translate drawings, paintings, and sculpture into verbal language. He never spoke about his own work. If he delivered concepts concerning what he did, he would destroy the mystery of this silence.
The mime Marcel Marceau praised Vernazza for his work. Vernazza had created a series of drawings of Marceau during a series of the mime's