Renoir in the 20th century (over)
published on September 24, 2009
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A must of this autumn in Paris!
The Galeries nationales du Grand Palais exhibit Pierre-Auguste Renoir, until the 4th of January 2010.
Entitled “Renoir in the 20th century”, the exhibition is designed to shed new light on little-known aspects of Renoir’s work while reaffirming the influence of his art throughout the first half of the 20th century in France.
In 1913, “I am beginning to learn how to paint. It has taken me over fifty years to get to this result, but there’s still a long way to go”, says the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).
Some one hundred Renoir paintings, drawings and sculptures are gathered together and are set against works by Picasso, Matisse, Maillol and Bonnard, giving an indication of the artist’s influence and legacy.
Until the 4th of January 2010
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Underground stations: Franklin.D Roosevelt or Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau
Bruegel, Memling, Van Eyck … The collection Brukenthal (over)
published on July 27, 2009
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The Jacquemart-Andre Museum hosts until the 11th of January 2010, the masterpieces of the prestigious collection Brukenthal, combining works of the great Flemish masters from the 15th century to the 17th century – Van Eyck, Jordaens, Bruegel, Memling or Teniers.
Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803) brought together a remarkable range of Flemish paintings from that time, then much sought after in Europe by art collectors.
The Flemish tavern, by David Teniers (1610-1690)
You will particularly admire fascinating portraits by Hans Memling and Jan van Eyck, some breathtaking landscapes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger, the symbolic of the still lifes by Jan de Heem Davidsz, the powerful realism of David Teniers, and the poetry of chiaroscuro in the religious painting by Jacob Jordaens.
Baron Samuel von Brukenthal retained all of his collection in his home in Sibiu, Romania. During his lifetime, he converted his palace into a veritable museum, which was one of the first in Romania.
Until the 11th of January 2010
Musée Jacquemart-André
158, bd Haussmann 75008 Paris
Tel. : 01 45 62 11 59
As red as possible…(over)
published on March 18, 2009
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The musée des Arts décoratifs, in the Louvre Palace, in Paris, drawing solely from its collections, features through november the 1st, the colour red, in all its dimensions, its perceptions.
The exhibition explores numerous domains in which red is an inescapable element, and the different symbolisms of this colour in all societies down the ages.
‘To say the ‘colour red’ is almost a pleonasm. Red is the colour par excellence […] the first of all colours’ (Michel Pastoureau, Dictionnaire des couleurs de notre temps).
Above: straw hat with indented peak, by David Shilling (1989)
Among the themes evoked are danger, hell, pleasure, power, luxury, dressing in red, the timelessness of red in the decorative arts and the various techniques and materials of red. A colour that symbolizes also fire and blood…
Musée des Arts décoratifs (Palais du Louvre)
The study Gallery
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Phone reception: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50
Through 1st of November 2009
The portraiture, Rodin facing his models (over)
published on March 17, 2009
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Until the 23rd of August, the Rodin Museum honors portraiture through the exhibition ‘The Making of the portrait, Rodin meet his models’. It highlights the creative process and the artist’s approach in the construction of his final work.
Claire de Choiseul, study, earthenware
Moulded out of the same clay, the faces of Baudelaire, Clemenceau, Balzac, stand alongside those of the bourgeois of the late 19th century. On this occasion, the Rodin museum took out of its reserves many restored pieces, some of which are shown to the public for the first time.
Madame Garnier, earthenware
Public or private, commemorative or intimate, the sculptor has created throughout his career portraits of great diversity – artists, politicians, bankers, loved women, socialites, French and foreign, every last one of these faces, contemporary of Rodin, immortalized and presented in one exhibition.
Moreover, to visit the Rodin museum at this time of the year is a must, for the park is blooming and a nice restaurant welcomes you in an remarkable setting, strewn with Rodin’s masterpieces…
Musée Rodin
79 rue de Varennes
75007 Paris
Tel: 01 44 18 61 10
Through 23rd of August 2009
Le Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
published on March 4, 2009
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To discover or rediscover during summer…
In an area completely renovated, combining modernity and the 1900 spirit, daylight highlights the collections.
You will go back in time, from the 1900 art to Ancient Greece and Rome, and understand how great moments in the history of Western art combine with the technical and artistic innovations, to produce masterpieces.
In this new place of art, creativity and conviviality, paintings, sculptures and art objects testify.
You will then certainly enjoy the charm of the interior garden with its pools lined with mosaics, its colonnades and its coffee shop.
Le Petit Palais
Avenue du Président Winston-Churchill – 75008 Paris
Tel : 00 33 1 53 43 40 00
Site : www.petitpalais.paris.fr
Open every day except Mondays and days off, from 10am to 6pm.
Metro
Lines: 13 or 1. Station: Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau
Bus
Line 72 . Bus stop: Grand Palais