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The article explores errors, ambiguities and challenges in translating the works of artist, author and filmmaker Andy Warhol into French. It shows blunders committed by art curator Alain Cueff in his translation of Warhol's book "Popism" and interviews, including his effort to erase the homosexual factors from the art world and intent to highlight the religious side of Warhol. The difficulty of translating the dialogues of Warhol's sound films due to hardly comprehensible medium is discussed.

The article focuses on the short story entitled "Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu," written by French writer Honoré de Balzac from 1831 to 1847 and Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's illustration of the story published by French art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard in November 1931. The author talks about the story's main character painter Frenhofer and the art studio located in the building at 7 rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris, France, where Picasso painted his work "Guernica" and where Balzac based the short story. The themes of artists' studios and artists and their models in the work of various artists, including Picasso's "L'Atelier de la modiste," are also discussed.

The article discusses modern art, nature, and representation, with a focus on the work of American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollack and other figures of modern art, such as Paul Klee, with reference to the relationship between his work and the concept of nature. Topics discussed include modern art and the crisis of representation as a historical crisis; the concept of art as imitation and the change in this concept with reference to modern art; and the relationship between nature and representation in Shakespeare and art prior to the period of modern art.

The article presents a reflection on the different ideologies concerning the appearance of abstraction in the history of art. The author explains that art historians believed for a long time that the first abstract painting was a work of Wassily Kandinsky, made in 1910, but he also proposes a discussion on the notion of abstraction in art since before the 20th century. The article explores the comparison between figurative and abstract art, and examines the homology between nature and art, in terms of how it influenced the development of abstraction.