It seems as I haven’ really come back from Japan… keep looking for indigo everywhere! On a busy day in paris, I managed to stop at the Musee Guimet to catch an exhibition showcasing a flurry of etchings from the famed Tokaido route. The Tokaido is the east and most famous of the Gokaido routes. It started […]
In the words of the Tate modern: « A leader of the Russian avant-garde, Natalia Goncharova blazed a trail with her experimental approach to art and design. Goncharova found acclaim early in her career. Aged just 32 she established herself as the leader of the Russian avant-garde with a major exhibition in Moscow in 1913. She then
Paul Serusier’s Talisman or Paysage au bois d’amour was the fruit of a conversation between Gauguin and Serusier and the foundation of the Nabis group, object of this temporary exhibition at the musee d »Orsay Paul Serusier, Le Talisman, 1888 Edouard Vuillard, Le liseur 1890 Maurice denis, Le christ vert, 1890 Maurice denis,
Following the fire at Notre Dame de Paris, the Musee de Cluny exhibited for a limited time, the heads of the Kings of Judah, discovered in 1977 at the Moreau hotel they had probably been buried there after the revolutionary iconoclastic period. They where very moving to look at, because of the remains of polychromy
Master of absurd, as this very good article of Numero un describes it
True pioneers of modern décor, Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Sérusier, Ranson and Vallotton defended an art relating directly to life. They created original, joyous and rhythmic works, intended to decorate contemporary interiors in reaction against the aesthetics of historical pastiche that were in vogue at the end of the 19th century.The decorative arts of the
Having inherited a multisecular tradition, at the dawn of the 18th century Venetian civilisation dazzled in the visual and decorative arts, music and opera alike. The presence of great talents, such as the painters Piazzetta and Giambattista Tiepolo, the urban landscape painter or vedutista Canaletto and the sculptors Corradini and Brustolon, to name but a
Just trying to get into this exhibition through the thick crowds shows how popular this artist is. I’ve always liked him a lot, much more after discovering his unknown generous utopian side with the « Epopee slave, unfortunately only shown through videos of the huge canvas only visible (at some point) in Pague, definitely on my
THE 2018 event in Marseille, a must see! Some descriptions taken from the Mucem website, link here Ai Qing’s funerary mask. Ai Qing was Ai WeiWei’s father, a major poet, his father was a low-key activist and was consequently detained by the Nationalist regime on the suspicion that he was a Leftist. He was also
2018 marks the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and France, as well as the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Meji period, when Japan opened up to the West. As part of the Japonisms 2018: souls in harmony cultural season, Throne will be displayed under the Pyramid of the Musée du Louvre.
A beautiful discovery, in a perched village of Crete, the house and studio of Manousos Chalkiada. A fabulous ceramist, but also a painter and photographer. And such a nice, welcoming person :)! Some shots of his studio: And of course we couldn’t leave empty handed… The Cretan ceramics found their place with ease
From sea… … to mountain… From archeology… … to monasteries lost in the mountains.. Withe everywhere splendid places to stay: From über hip Hotel Amos in Chania: To the truly ecolodge literally at the top of the hill: The Milia mountain retreat With adorable people always happy to help you discover the treasures of
When the Beaux Arts where at the center of protests, printing every evening the posters that where to be placarded during the night.. ^*
A Picasso temporary exhibition at La vieille Charité where Picasso dialogues with some of the museum’s pieces. An invitation to imaginary travels. La vieille charité is Marseille’s museum of mediterranean archeology and museum of African, Amerindian and Oceanic Arts Tet de faune gris, 1946 Oenochoe minoeene (Cretoise) Tanagra aux mains jointes
Some shots of the Delacroix exhibition at the Louvre, Mai 2018 Reunion de la Saint Sylvestre: Delacroix, Felix Guillemardet et les frères Pieret Dante et Virgile aux enfers, 1822 Scenes des massacres de Scio, 1824 La liberte guidant le peuple, 1830 Jeune orpheline au cimetière, 1824 Une cour a Tanger, 1832 Autoportrait au gilet
The exhibition takes us through a fascinating trip into abstraction and colours… bon voyage! When Charlie Hebdo seems mild compare to those caricatures, one might think that maybe we have a problem with religions… In « L’assiette au beurre » 1904 (!) Le Dieu du Vatican La Déesse de la raison Dieux Turcs La mendicité n’y est
Scene Interieure, Amandine Maillot, an exhibition in the lobby of La Criée theatre, Marseille. Interview of the artist here
A little game of guess who that is… I’ll only help with the ones I don’t know 😉 And the much more moving series of just people.. The original set up On « Nuit blanche » evening
The artist Prune Noury was invited to show a retrospective of her work in the Musee Guimet, Paris’ Asian Arts Museum. Her stunning and powerful pieces where shown dialoging with the museums’ regular exhibition: Holy daughters and Holy river, queries the place of girls in India today; Terracotta daughters recalls the faith of millions of aborted girls