![]() ![]() Two Lines, No Waiting: The main story involving the three friends is shadowed by Yvan's struggles with organising his own marriage.Tranquil Fury: Marc catches a felt-tip pen Serge has tossed him, and calmly draws a skier on the painting.Trapped with the Therapy Session Yves is the unhappy empire/middleman in this battle as Serge and Marc's friendship nearly breaks up.Then they make up after Serge lets Marc draw on the painting. Trope Launch Pad Wishlist Reviews Go Ad Free TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Ask The Tropers Trope Finder You Know That Show. Rebuilt Pedestal: Marc calls Serge his best friend and mentor and says this whole painting thing has broken things for him. A setting where humans have a secondary sex (alpha, beta or omega), common in fan works.Yvan tries to act like this between Marc and Serge, but given his personal problems, his fragile psyche, and his constant belittling on the others' part, he ends up having a Heroic BSoD. In-Universe, the same artwork at the centre of the dispute can be said to belong to the Minimalist genre.The only thing changing from one scene to another, to show whose home is it at the moment, is the artwork on display. Minimalist Cast, and only one set as stark as possible to represent the homes of all three characters.Lucky Charms Title: The proper title of the play is "Art", quotes included.Antrios is the (fictional) artist who is the author of Serge's painting in the play. Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Some print editions of the play feature a white-painted canvas on the cover, credited to "Antrios" and belonging to a private collection.Insistent Terminology: Serge wastes no words in explaining how his painting is not just "white".Heterosexual Life-Partners: Marc sees his relationship with Serge as a very twisted version of this trope.Black Comedy: A staple of the playwright, Hilarity Ensues from adults acting like children.Batman Gambit: Serge knew that the felt-tip pen ink was washable, and he deliberately lets Marc deface the painting with it.The best known performance of the play was filmed for French TV in 1998, starring Pierre Vaneck, Fabrice Luchini and Pierre Arditi (who all inaugurated the play in 1994). ![]() However, things start to go sour when Serge spends two hundred thousands francs on an artwork that's just a white-painted canvas. Marc, Serge and Yvan are longtime friends. "Art" is a 1994 play by French playwright Yasmina Reza, author of God of Carnage. ![]()
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