From Siena to Florence, the Italian Primitives (over)
published on February 27, 2009
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Through June 21, at the Jacquemart-André Museum, the exceptional works collected during the 19th century by the German baron Bernard von Lindenau are shown for the first time in Paris.
The exhibition highlights the succession of major aesthetic trends which deeply transformed Italian art between the second half of the 13th century and the end of the 15th century. The Greek style and Byzantine influence on the one hand and the appearance of the modern style after Giotto and the spread of the international Gothic style on the other, gradually gave way to the Renaissance style.
This anthology of prestigious artists, from Guido da Siena to Liberale di Verona, enables us to see two major schools side by side: the Sienese School, which counts Lippo Memmi, Pietro Lorenzetti and Sano di Pietro amongst its ranks, and the Florentine School, represented, amongst others, by Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio and Filippo Lippi.
A fascinating and rare glimpse of post-medieval painting…
Through 21st of June 2009
Musée Jacquemart-André
158, boulevard Haussmann 75008 Paris
Téléphone : 01 45 62 11 59
www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com
Open all year round, between 10 a.m and 6 p.m
Six centuries of Chinese paintings, works restored by the Cernuschi museum (over)
published on February 26, 2009
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The Cernuschi museum, in Paris, presents until the 28th of June 2009, a rare exhibition – “Six centuries of Chinese paintings, works restored by the Cernuschi museum”. It features the greatest painters of the Imperial China, active in the literate Ming circles (1368-1644) or the Qing court (1644-1911).
It also reflects the fate of artists of the early XXth century in China, then
shaken by the beginnings of modernity and historical changes.
Among the Chinese painters tempted by the West, many people, since the
thirties, chose Paris as a venue for training and creation.
The contacts made by the Cernuschi museum with contemporary Chinese artists have allowed the museum to establish a unique collection in the West.
Located on the edge of the Parc Monceau in an elegant building originally designed by its founder Henri Cernuschi (1821-1896) as a small residence for a bachelor, the Cernuschi Museum, inaugurated in 1898, is one of the oldest museums in Paris. It offers visitors a tour of high aesthetic quality through Chinese art…
Until 28 June 2009
Musée Cernuschi
7 avenue Vélasquez
75008 Paris
Tel: 01 53 96 21 50
The Russian avant-garde in the Costakis collection (over)
published on February 4, 2009
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The Maillol Museum, in Paris, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian avant-garde painters of the 1910-1930 period.
A superb selection of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, from the collection Costakis, tracks the incredible creativity and the diversity of artists that marked symbolism, suprematism, constructivism and the beginning of the return to figuration in the late 20s, before socialist realism returned in an authoritarian way.
Alongside of now famous artists - Malevich, Popova, Klioun, Rodtchenko, Lissitzky, Tatlin – one discovers the works, often surprising, of unknown painters and displayed in France for the first time, such as Kudriashev, Redko, Matiouchine, Ender, Filonov, Nikritine …
The lithograph presented on the previous page is by Lissitsky (1919).
The painting presented on this page is by Rodtchenko (1920).
Fondation Dina Vierny- Musée Maillol
61 rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris
Metro station: rue du Bac
Tel: 01 42 22 59 58
Through March 2nd 2009
Chinese generations (over)
published on January 31, 2009
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The new generation of Chinese artists to be discovered…
through July 4 2009, in particular at the Hotel d’Orsay and the Hotel des Saints Pères.
Making art accessible to a large public, the Gallerie 208 Chicheportiche, with the Chinese cultural Center and the city hall of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, exhibits modern Chinese art in various luxurious places of the district.
Among these venues, two Hotels Esprit de France welcome paintings from Tuo Guang Yan, at the Hotel d’Orsay, and Liu Yang, at the Hotel des Saints Pères.
The Hotel des Saints Pères also hosts an astonishing sculpture, named “Invisibility”, by Shu Xing Chuan.
Through May 4 2009
Hôtel d’Orsay. 93 rue de Lille. 75007 Paris. Tel: 01 47 05 85 54
Hôtel des Saints Pères. 65 rue des Saints Pères . 75006 Paris. Tél: 01 45 44 50 00
“The couples” by Roselyne Granet (over)
published on January 17, 2009
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Through May 2nd, at the galerie Darthea Speyer, in Paris, Roselyne Granet exhibits
some powerful works of art.
Marcelin Pleynet explains: “The movement that lives in the works of the Roselyne Granet is part of a quasi-Baroque lyricism; it is very special and unusual both in modern art and in contemporary art.
Her work retains first because it is inhabited. It creates a world that appeals to our memory … that poetically lives in us. ”
Galerie Darthea Speyer
6 rue Jacques Callot. 75006 Paris
Until the 2nd of May 2009
From Tuesday to Friday:11a.m to 12.45 and from 2 p.m to 7 p.m
Saturday:from 11 p.m to 7 p.m