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Eternal Flame

In Ukraine, a young artist was jailed for a performance that involved frying eggs over an eternal flame honouring fallen soldiers and commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

Video on France 24, International News, 18/04/2011

Katy Perry Fried Egg

Katy Perry celebrating her birthday at a Hallowe'en concert in Charlotte, California...

World War II Easter Eggs

1941, Ian Gall
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A bandaged world, battered and covered in plasters, is balanced on a finger.
A label is stuck in it by a pin : "Chins up and keep smiling !". Read on a large bandage "The war-torn old world !"
1941 Easter Egg. (1941, April 10). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)

1941, Ian Gall
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When the war turns in favour of the allies...
A large rooster, chest thrust out, leaps in the air.
The rooster is labelled "Allied Nations" and is over an egg labelled "All round improvement in war".
A satisfied man with a basket says "Not a victory egg yet, but much better !"
Our Easter Egg. (1944, April 6). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)

 1941, Ian Gall

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A labelled egg  "Easter 1941" in caricature of Hitler sits on a wall above a swastika, with writing above "Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall –".
Then the labelled egg "Easter 1945" falls from the wall, "Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall".
EASTER EGG. (1945, March 31). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)

Libre dans l'Eau

Quand un œuf est cassé sous l'eau...

Bon Vent !

 1912

Sooster's Eggs

Red Egg
Ülo Sooster, 1964

Estonian nonconformist painter

(1924-1970)

 Egg on the Beach

 Ülo Sooster, 1968

Indian ink on paper
Tartu Art Museum, Estonia

Sooster's Grave, Estonia

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The artist spent long years in prison camps and he had no illusions about the regime. In 1956 he tried to return to Estonia, but it was a totally different country. That is why he stayed in Moscow, where his wife was from. Soon Sooster became the authority of authorities. Those whom Moscow had been carefully listening to, now listened carefully to this Estonian speaking Russian in a broken accent. The underground had a compassionate and respectful attitude towards this uprooted plant. Because while the local nonconformist art movement only received injections of modern Western art in small doses, he was a pupil of a totally different culture and would have withered without support and care. Although he had been torn away from Western tradition, he miraculously managed to continue working in its stream. After the artist’s death his wife gave most of the works to museums in Tartu and Tallinn.

For a long time Sooster remained a mysterious figure to those interested in art in Moscow, and his work was only widely presented in Moscow in 1979.

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Œuf Corse

Œuf Corse

Jean-Paul Ceccaldi

Editions Ancre latine, 2010

"Je me dirigeai vers les toilettes en y apportant le journal. Lunette des W.C sous mes fesses et lunettes de vue sur mon nez, l'inverse aurait été insoutenable et, donc, dans l'ordre des choses, je pus enfin me pencher sur le désordre des hommes dans la presse.

Stupéfaction !... Jean-Do Luciani, charcutier insulaire, avait été assassiné en Corse alors qu'il m'avait annoncé sa venue à Paris...

Of course, faut' que j'y aille !...

Ainsi se parla à lui-même Gaston Maltais, aventurier et romancier à ses heures, avant d’aller découvrir la Corse qui venait d’être le théâtre du premier attentat à l’âne explosif."

Dali, Hardy et l'Œuf

Salvador Dali et Françoise Hardy

Cadaqués, 1968
Photo de Jean-Marie Périer
(un des photographes de Salut Les Copains)

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Open-Air Fried Egg

in Hakone Open-Air Museum
Hakone, Japan

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