Alphonse Allais
Alphonse Allais was a French satirist.
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- Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige.
- First communion of chlorotic young girls in the snow.
- Title of an entirely white painting exhibited at Expositions des Arts Incohérents 1884-5 organised by Jules Lèvy.
- See wikipedia on chlorosis, a form on anemia. Also cf. the later "white paintings" by Robert Rauschenberg.
- Combat de nègres dans une cave pendant la nuit.
- Negroes Fighting in a Cave at Night.
- Title of an entirely black painting.
- Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.
- Funeral March for the Last Rites of a Deaf Man.
- A piece consisting of 24 empty bars. See the score in this essay by Larry J Solomon on John Cage.