Jean-Luc Godard like you’ve never seen him: The pioneer of cinema’s hidden passion for visual arts

Jean-Luc Godard like you’ve never seen him: The pioneer of cinema’s hidden passion for visual arts

Jean-Luc Godard was known for his ironic subversion throughout his life. As a teenager, he signed his drawings as IAM and even gifted his parents a graphic notebook titled Le Cercle de Famille. Impressions d’ensemble (The Family Circle. General Impressions), which humorously mocked bourgeois life. And there was nothing more bourgeois than having Swiss banker grandparents, as Godard did. While he is famously credited with shaping the French New Wave and establishing himself as a young rebel who would eventually wield cinema as a political weapon, it may come as a surprise that he also channeled his creativity into graphic work.

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