Turner and his painters (over)
published on April 2, 2010
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Do not miss the exhibition « Turner and his painters » proposed by the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais until May 24th 2010. You will discover about hundred work of Turner and many other painters.
Why other painters?
This is the topic of the exhibition that proposes an interpretation of Turner’s work through artists from whom he drew inspiration and those he rejected to build its own style. Paintings full of light and raging storms: admire at the Grand Palais the completed style of Turner, successful result of confrontation and exchange.
« Turner and his painters »
Until May 24th 2010
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
3, avenue du Général-Eisenhower
75008 Paris
Tel : 00 33 1 44 13 17 17
Creative spirit: Hotel Mansart
published on March 28, 2010
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Some of our customers sometimes draw in the hotel visitor’s book to express feelings about their stay.
We would like to share with you these pieces of humor, spontaneity and creativity with the “Creative spirit” section.
Translation: “I always stay at the Hotel Mansart”. Pun with the verb “descends” which means “go down” in a different context.
Edvard Munch or the Anti-scream (over)
published on February 16, 2010
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EXTENDED UNTIL AUGUST THE 8TH. From February the 19th to July the 18th, the Pinacothèque presents “Edvard Munch or the Anti-Scream”. The 100 works exhibited represents the Norwegian artist’s first and larger retrospective in Paris, where he used to live.
Munch is mainly famous for “The scream”, a symbol of his melancholy. At the Pinacothèque you will discover the complete expressionist and colorful work of this major painter.
Edvard Munch or the Anti-scream
Until July the 18th
Pinacothèque de Paris
28, place de la Madeleine
75008 Paris
Robert Doisneau, From craft to art (over)
published on January 15, 2010
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From January the 13th to April the 18th, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, just a stone’s throw from the Hotel Aiglon, presents « Robert Doisneau, From craft to art». The exhibition shows about hundred prints of Robert Doisneau closely linked to Paris and street scenes taken between 1930 and 1966.
Doisneau’s photographs are immortalized life instants. And he treats here its favorite subject: Paris and its suburbs. The irresistible talent of the one that claimed he “photographed to survive” grabing the right instant, press on the button on the right moment is amazing. The spectator guesses the pleasure that “the poacher of transience” should feel hunting the best picture while going all over town.
This is finally “real life” which is exhibited to the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation: children laughs and plays, a passer-by’s jump or pace. That is what raised Doisneau’s photographs from a craft to an art.
Expressions of faces and dynamic of movements expressed on Doisneau’s subjects could be from 2010. This timeless aspect and the human universal arouse a beautiful emotion while visiting this exhibition.
Robert Doisneau , « From craft to art »
From January the 13th to April the 18th
Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
2 impasse Lebouis
75014 Paris
www.henricartierbresson.org
Isadora Duncan, a living sculpture (Over)
published on December 3, 2009
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In Paris, until March 14, 2010, the Bourdelle Museum presents an ambitious exhibition dedicated to Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), a pioneer figure of dance.
Autodidact born on the coast of California, this bold, modern woman put her art at the heart of a project of a society based on more freedom and democracy. Defying convention, Isadora danced barefoot, wearing a tunic revealing her nudity.
Sculptures, paintings and drawings by Antoine Bourdelle, Auguste Rodin, José Clarà, Rik Wouters, Jules Grandjouan, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Abraham Walkowitz, illustrate the revolutionary art of Isadora. These artists, fascinated by the expressiveness of her dance empathy with nature and music, have sought to capture the force of it.
Isadora Duncan by Antoine Bourdelle
While restoring the artistic and intellectual context of an era, many photographs, books and documents also help to trace the tumultuous life and career of Isadora, her world tours and dance schools.
In the gardens and studios where Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) lived and worked, the Bourdelle museum also houses an outstanding collection of plaster, bronze and marble works of art of the artist.
The extension made in 1992 by the architect Christian de Portzamparc gives full dimension to the work of this great sculptor, who was a contemporary of Rodin, and also Giacometti’s master.
Musée Bourdelle
18, rue Antoine Bourdelle
75015 Paris
Tél : 01 49 54 73 73
Through March 14, 2010