Art Characters

An engineer and an intellectual, the pompous Marc is a self-proclaimed aesthete who, somewhat contradictorily, has trouble seeing the meaning in much of modern art. When his friend Serge buys a two-hundred-thousand-franc all-white painting by… read analysis of Marc

Serge, a well-to-do dermatologist who is divorced from his wife and is only occasionally allowed to see his children, has relied for years on his close friendship with Marc and, to a lesser degree, Yvan… read analysis of Serge

The meekest of the trio, Yvan works at a stationery company that belongs to his fiancée’s uncle. He is drawn into the argument between Marc and Serge as a kind of referee when Marc, having… read analysis of Yvan