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Le monde paisible d’Albert Marquet : peintre français de la lumière
Albert Marquet (1875-1947) était un peintre français célèbre pour ses marines, ses paysages urbains et ses paysages naturels lumineux. Ami proche d'Henri Matisse, il a commencé par être fauviste avant de développer un style plus doux et plus naturel qui capturait avec élégance la lumière, l'eau et l'atmosphère.
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Shelley’s Art Scandal – Tulips that weigh heavy for Paris
You may be familiar with the artist Jeff Koons, the artist who created “Balloon Dog” amongst many other colourful works. While his works look light and airy, they are actually made of stainless steel, which has been polished and painted. Koons set to fame in the 1980 with his first solo exhibit, and since then has had pieces shown around the world, including in front of the Rockefeller Centre and in the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. He has also received as pattering of awards and has notoriety in the industrial art field. So, when back in 2016, he offered the“Bouquet of Tulips” as a monument to the biggest terrorist attack to…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Delacroix Sexist?
It’s an iconic and powerfully strong image, isn’t it. Lady Liberty leading the charge of freedom, in what is known as Delacroix’s most famous painting, but the symbolism and composition of the piece have opened debates around sexism and imagery. Delacroix was notorious for his dramatic paintings, but audiences found his topics and depictions rather hard to stomach, as the scenes are overly violent, too grand, oversized and overpowering in the response that they almost demand. Delacroix was a leading name in French Romanticism, born in 1798 he was educated at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, where he immersed himself in the classics and…
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they’d ask ‘Did you do this?’. And I’d say, ‘No, you did.’
Exhibition: Guernica Date: March 27 – July 29, 2018 Venue: Musée national Picasso | Paris, France When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they’d ask ‘Did you do this?’. And I’d say, ‘No, you did.’ – Pablo Picaaso The bloody historical event that moved Picasso to create this masterpiece in one month took place shortly before its first exhibition at the 1937 World Exposition in Paris, where it was shown after it was commissioned by the government of the Spanish Republic. The images and feelings of the three-hour bombing and destruction of the Basque town of Guernica by Nazi planes were still…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – “Carolina” – Is it a Coming of Age or Voyeuristic Venture of a Sculpture?
Nestled in the Gabriel-Pierné Square in Paris, there is the Carolina statue created by Marcello Tommasi. This is a bronze statue, created in 1968, showing in detail a naked young girl. As you look at her, you may feel that she is stood rather awkwardly, her right arm turned at a difficult angle, her developing hips pushed slightly too far to one side and her face struck in an expression of distinct determination. You may also feel slightly unnerved that this statue, which is looking directly ahead, is clearly an early teenage girl and is showing her developing body so brazenly. Tommasi was an Italian painter and sculptor who died in…
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Second part.
Read part 1 here. In 1877, at the Third Impressionist Exhibition, Renoir presented a whole panorama of over twenty paintings. They included landscapes created in Paris, on the Seine, outside the city and in Claude Monet’s garden; studies of women’s heads and bouquets of flowers; portraits of Sisley, the actress Jeanne Samary, the writer Alphonse Daudet and the politician Spuller; and also The Swing and Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre. The labels on some of the paintings indicated that they were already the property of Georges Charpentier. The artist’s friendship with the Charpentier family was to play a significant role in shaping his destiny. Madame Charpentier’s salon…
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巴黎，一见钟情
很多人都知道斯德哥尔摩综合症，指的是被害者对罪犯产生感情、甚至反过来帮助罪犯的情结。但是，有多少人听说过巴黎综合症呢？ 相较斯德歌尔摩综合症而言，巴黎综合症带有典型的法国色彩，它更为浪漫、也不那么暴力。法国那强烈的理想主义情怀让人们浮想联翩，仿佛巴黎城就屹立在奥林匹亚山之巅，那美味的牛角面包、那比歌手的嗓音更加迷人的法语。然而，当那些人最终降落在巴黎的戴高乐机场，走进他们想象中的伊甸园时，巨大落差就引发了一种心理症状—巴黎综合症。 一年中总有那么一些游客会出现幻觉、妄想、焦虑以及眩晕等症状。更加有趣的是，这种症状只发生在日本游客身上，每年至少有12位日本游客因为医疗原因被送回日本。 日本驻法国大使馆开辟了24小时热线来解决这个问题。在巴黎这个地方开辟了一条每年仅为12个游客服务的专线，巴黎综合症可能拥有最具针对性的医疗救护了。 巴黎综合症被认为是一种短暂的心理失调（这个词儿被维基百科收录，并且有医学期刊为参考文献）。这是一个关于文化冲击和不切实际的幻想的极端案例，很少有科学的诊断依据。 巴黎（或者说整个法国）是充满爱和美的圣地，拥有很多才华横溢的艺术家和丰富的历史传奇。 今天，为您推荐的是《莫奈》《德加斯》和《毕沙罗》，希望您会喜欢： 《莫奈》：http://www.amazon.cn/Monet-Parkstone-Press/dp/B00C7OK8MC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1440487873&sr=8-2&keywords=monet+parkstone 《德加斯》：http://www.amazon.cn/Edgar-Degas-Brodskaïa-Nathalia/dp/B007JRRQV8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440487908&sr=8-1&keywords=degas+parkstone 《毕沙罗》：http://www.amazon.cn/Pissarro-Brodskaya-Nathalia/dp/B00CR6D19C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440487930&sr=8-1&keywords=pissarro+parkstone
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Crowds Are Out, Crates Are In as Louvre Takes Flood Precautions
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/video/players/offsite/index.html?videoId=100000004451691 PARIS — The square at the center of the Louvre, dominated by I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid, was desolate early Friday morning, save for a few tourists taking selfies. The museum was closed to visitors, as Paris experienced its worst flooding since 1982 — but inside, staff members and volunteers had worked around the clock to remove artworks from the threat of the rising waters of the Seine River. I was part of a small group of journalists whom the French culture minister, Audrey Azoulay; the museum’s president, Jean-Luc Martinez; and other officials took on a tour of the strangely vacant museum on Friday afternoon. (Broadcast journalists were given priority;…
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Impressions du monde flottant
Le XVIIe siècle en Europe avait vu se propager la mode de l’Orient avec des objets décoratifs importés de Turquie et de Perse. Au XVIIIe, on se passionna davantage pour l’Extrême-Orient grâce aux missions jésuites qui en rapportèrent nombreuses « chinoiseries », porcelaines, éventails et laques délicates. De la fin du XIXe siècle au début du XXe, ce fût au tour du Japon. Un engouement nouveau qui gagna même, grâce au critique d’art et collectionneur français Philippe Burty, le nom de « Japonisme ». Le Japonisme toutefois a été plus qu’une mode. Où les précédentes tocades orientalistes n’allaient guère plus loin que la décoration des intérieurs de bourgeois fortunés, la fascination pour le Japon…
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Alphonse Mucha : l’Art Nouveau est arrivé !
Si la simple évocation du nom de Mucha ne vous donne pas envie de siroter un verre d’absinthe en terrasse d’un bistrot à Montmartre par un bel après-midi de printemps, c’est que vous ne connaissez sûrement pas le monsieur. Alphonse Mucha est né en République tchèque en 1860, déjà doté d’un solide instinct artistique puisqu’il se mit au dessin dès le plus jeune âge. Comme tous les enfants me direz-vous, mais de la part du fils d’un huissier de justice, c’est tout de même pas mal. Refusé par l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Prague (quel don pour dénicher les talents !), le voici qui arrive à Paris en 1887 pour rejoindre l’Académie…
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