FEMINITY WITH BERTHE MORISOT AT MARMOTTAN

"Finesse" would say the French. Berthe MORISOT had a keen eye on women's nexk and shoulders, painting it with delicacy, with tenderness.


Femme à sa Toilette



Portrait d'Alice Gamby

Charming naiveté of a young girl, looking at the painter straight in the eye .

Fresh, light, diaphanous.



Marguerites

Berthe had no fear of colour either .



Lucie Leon au piano

For a delightful moment, may I suggest a ambly walk through the Ranelagh Garden (see the i-phone application Fan du 16e for a superb description with great pictures), and then give yourself a treat with Berthe MORISOT at the MARMOTTAN-MONET MUSEUM. 

Till July 1st, 2012, from Tuesday to Sunday 10am -6pm, and on Thursday late night till 8pm.
MUSEE MARMOTTAN-MONET
01 44 96 50 33

EVER BEEN GOOD AT MATHS ? SEE IT AS ART AT THE FONDATION CARTIER; IT’LL MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER !

 

Mathematics as Art. I wish I had seen them that way when younger and with my butt on those stupid and uncomfortable school benches.

 

1st time someone clever enough shows it as an interesting and vast world .

A history of mathematics, of the human mind and of contemporary science.

Works are from  Jean-Michel Alberola, Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret, Takeshi Kitano, David Lynch, Beatriz Milhazes, Patti SMith and Hiroshi Sugimoto, all artistic and cinema personnalities.

 

Undoubtedly the most original exhibit in PARIS ! You’ll see Mathematics differently now and will definitely see them as an emotion of some sorts.

FONDATION CARTIER

till March 18th, 2011

ARTY ALL THE WAY WITH THE HOTEL DU JEU DE PAUME

 

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Special pact, special pass at the Hôtel du JEU DE PAUME, set in the heart of the Ile Saint Louis : what a marvelous way to discover PARIS and its museums.

This arty hotel, a mix of old Paris charm and XXIst century trend, where you will find reproductions of Cézannes, Picassos, Modigliani’s and Klimts in the rooms, has launched a “ cultural pass” giving you access to 60 Paris museums and national monuments.

You book a room and you have the Pass along with it; no more queueing, no more asking for a thousand questions at the Information desk.

Your PARIS MUSEUM PASS includes :

- 1 double room

- 2 Paris Museum Pass valid for 2 days

- 2 glasses of champagne

from 275 € a night.

( just for you to know, the Pass is not valid tough for the temporary exhibits)

 

 

 

 

Ideally set in the most charming small islands of Paris ( yes, sure we are on an island ) with its secret garden and all beamed bedrooms.

Hôtel du Jeu de Paume
54, rue Saint-Louis-en-l’Ile
75004 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.43.26.14.18
Site: http://www.jeudepaumehotel.com/
Blog: http://www.ile-saint-louis.com/

 

All information via HOOSTA MAGAZINE

CEZANNE ET PARIS AT THE MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG

The "Master of Aix" , alias  Paul CEZANNE himself, good buddy of his fellow Impressionnists Monet, Renoir and Pissarro to name a few of his clan , spent a good 44 years in Paris and its whereabouts between 1861 and 1905, ( Cézanne died in 1906). This rich exhibit presented at the MUSEE Du LUXEMBOURG till February 2012 will seduce you with a master collection of many of Cézanne's portraits, nudes, stiil-lives and sceneries.



Paul, though very Impressionnist in his mind, manner  and work, gave a new importance to colour mixed with geometry. He became one of the founders of Fauvism, Cubism and Constructivism ( nothing to do with the Big 5, nor with cubes nor with building of any kind Dah ! and if those words sound like Chinese to you , move on to Wikipedia for more info Dah !) .









Quai de Bercy .


CEZANNE ET PARIS
MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG
till February 26th, 2012... still a few weeks for you to go !!!!! About 80 works of art, so be prepared .

By the way, Zola, yes, Honey, THE writer, that old fellow who knew so well how to depict society, so, Zola was CEZANNE's  good friend from early childhood ( they were sort of brought up together) but ... Zola made a huge mega top blunder : in his 1st novel, who did he take inspiration from to draw a looser of a painter ? Bet on it, his own friend Paul ! Oh My !!! Cézanne never forgave him . Ever !


http://www.museeduluxembourg.fr/

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK WITH CHINESE ARTISTS AT CERNUSCHI

 

The exhibit scene in PARIS is not that exciting, that is the least we can say; ecxept for a few surprises:

At CERNUSCHI, an array of great contemporary Chinese artists give a sense to the Parisian experiments they went through while studying in PARIS.

Far from any easy exotism,  Zao WOU KI, Lin FENGMIAN, Ma DESHENG, Shen YUAN, Wang KEPING, Huang YONGPING, and Chan KAI YUEN ( see that how well I speak chinese ?!) have liberated themselves from millenary schemes to give us a very fresh vision .

 

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Lin FENGMIAN

 

Lin FENGMIAN

Chan KAI YUEN

Ma DESHENG

Shen YUAN

Shen YUAN

Ru XIAOFAN

 

Zao WOU KI

 

ARTISTES CHINOIS A PARIS

1920-1958

MUSEE CERNUSCHI till December 31 st, 2011

 

ttp://www.cernuschi.paris.fr/

SHADOWS : SANTU MOFOKENG

 

If you’re close to the Tuileries, have a go at the JEU DE PAUME where you’ll discover quite an impressive photographer of shadows : South African SANTU MOFOKENG.

 

All black and white mystery.

Santu Mofokeng, Democracy is forever, Pimville-Soweto, vers 2004 (COURTESY LUNETTA BARTZ, MAKER, JOHANNESBURG. ©SANTU MOFOKENG).

200 photographs of life in Soweto, its misery, its mystery, its shadows.

 

Until September 26th, 2011.

JEU DE PAUME

http://www.jeudepaume.org/

1 place de la Concorde
75008 Paris

Tuesday from 12 am to 9pm
Wednesday through Friday from 12 am to 7pm

Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 7pm
Tél. 01 47 03 12 50

MOMENT OF PEACE AND SERENITY AT THE MUSEE GUIMET

 

 

 

The MUSEE GUIMET is the perfect place to find some serenity and some beauty; not only from the works exposed but by the way each sculpture or object is placed.

 

 

 

The role of a museum is to offer hospitality to its works as much as to its visitors; this is especially so on the case of in Asian art, where it is the spacing, the blank spaces in-between, that irrigate the subject itself.

And, as in painting, it is emptiness that brings a subject to life, falling into streams, winding itself into the trees and gathering under the mountain cloud. So hollow and loose is the very figure of alternation between full and empty, that it is impossible to pay too much attention to passages, openings and the relationship between exhibited objects.

http://www.guimet.fr

MUSEE D’ORSAY : MANET IS DEFINITELY THE SUPERSTAR BUT THE MINI STAR IS :

 

Her :

 

The crying kid by Albert BARTHOLOME

 

Look at the details :

 

Would you think she is crying or … sleeping or washing her face ?

BARTHOLOME started doing sculpture once his wife died and he is quite well known for the statue that he did for the Cimetière du Pére Lachaise.

He is definitely a master in “sorrow” with these mourners.

See more in detail as it is so modern looking.

No faces shown, hands in front of the face, heads down, nakedness in all its beauty.

 

So much love in this gesture.

 

So much despair.

 

Albert BARTHOLOME lives and sleeps at the Musée d’Orsay under the bronze figure of the “Crying Little Girl”.

BRITISH INVASION : SAATCHI AND MOORE HITTING FRANCE !

SAATCHI is conquering Lille .
Get on board the next TGV to Lille and stop at the TRI POSTAL in Lille for a good taste of Saatchi's so special blend of artits: " The Silk Route" : Iranian, Palestinian, Afghan and Indian young artists will knock your head off with their own Oriental influence.

Look up Shadi Ghadirian and its veiled woman with a vulgar yellow , thick rubber glove instead of a face.
From October 20th, 2010.

Le TRI POSTAL
LILLE

Henri MOORE'S superb curves and smooth pure white lines : what are we talking there ? Women's bodies ? No real ones anyway, but rather stone ones , Henry's .

About 50 sculptures will be exposed at the Musée RODIN from October 15th 2010 till February 27th, 2011.

http://www.museerodin.fr/

Instead of grueling over the stupid fact that to loose 2 lbs of fat you need to loose a mere 8000 calories, which is, there's no other word, the end of the world, why don't we set up for a NEW YOU YEAR ?
( Anyway, thank God diets don't work, otherwise, by this time,we would be a size zero ! )

So, a NEW YOU YEAR : sounds terrific to me ! But how do we go about it, honey sweety pie ?

First thing : enjoy the  promise and pleasure of brewing coffee with its subtle and spicy aroma surrounding your delicate nostrils little by little.

While enjoying that totally free moment of yours, sipping that wonderful Brazilian arabica, let your thoughts wander towards all what you would wish yourself if you had the best of horoscopes to read.

A melting - pot of new exhibits to discover, a few new places to explore, several restaurants to try, the new stores to test... We could go all day long with the list. But we'll get to there !

May I suggest jotting down in your agenda THE TOP SEPTEMBER EXHIBITS ?

SEPTEMBER 2010 :

- 4 GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS at  MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE from September 8th till October 31st, 2010

                                           

  "Le Monde en Marche" by

Fabien CHALON ( 51 years old) : this gigantic and activated work of art is in Gare du Nord since June 2008 and strikes  time with all sorts of enigmatic and animated special effects...

Karl LAGERFELD : no presentation needed I believe .
Given to see his works, a teeny weetsy bit of his work : portraits, fashion, sites and architecture.




 








                                                                                                 
Kimoko YOSHIDA

Kimiko YOSHIDA ( 48 years old)
"Là où je ne suis pas" : autoportraits from her 1st
brides to "Paints".

Kimiko is a Japanese artist who now lives in France. Her mother had thrown her out into the street when she was 3 and she left with as sole object, her treasure box. She took refuge in a public park to be found by the local police. Since then, she has always felt a nomad, a fugitive. No wonder !

Her "Mary-me" selection of porttraits comes straight from her love as a child to invent bride gowns for her dolls.




Ernestine RUBEN and Mi JONG LEE

MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
5/7 rue de Fourcy - 75004 PARIS
01 44 78 75 00
Metro: Saint Paul, Pont Marie
From Wednesday to Sunday from 11am to 8 pm. 6,50 €
http://www.mep-fr.org/

- "REPORTERS SANS FRONTIERES" at the PETIT PALAIS
( see note further down in another message)

- ANGKOR'S ARCHEOLOGISTS at Musée CERNUSCHI from September 10th 2010  till January 2nd, 2011

Since 1907 l'Ecole Française d'Extreme Orient has been at work in the restauration of one of Aman's resort neighbour ! Angkor, who used to be in another life one of the biggest metropolis of Asia was covered up and untirely invaded by the jungle in the XVIth century:
- playing hide and seek with tigers or what ? Gotcha !
-or passionnate love affair between Trees and Stones ? Guess who won ?
Well not who you think ! This is exactly what one will see in this 108 photo exhibit: : the gigantic excavation works started in 1943 which will end in... March 2011 ! And from there will resurrect the mountain sized temple of Baphuon.







Musée CERNUSCHI
7 avenue Vélasquez - 75008 PARIS
01 53 96 21 50
Every day except Tuesday from 10am to 6pm.
http://www.cernuschi.paris.fr/

IMMEDIATE BOARDING FOR THE SENSUAL WORLD OF WANG KEPING : "LA CHAIR DES FORETS"

Till September 12th, 2010 at the Musée ZADKINE : 'LA CHAIR DES FORETS" ( Forest Flesh).

The title says it all.

WOMAN by WANG KEPING

Sensuality, simplicity, vitality, smoothness, tenderness, Life, : talking about us "women" there ? Well, sort of, "Women" of another kind certainly ...  women of wood.

WANG KEPING not only loves women, but well knows how to evoke their powerful feminity and full curves  through the smoothness of the tree's flesh, with its full body feeling, with its branches and knots.

Haven't you ever noticed that when one comes next to a tree, one wants automatically to pat it, to let an innocent hand go smoothly over its flesh ? Well, WANG KEPING went a little further than just carressing it !

WANG KEPING is a Chinese sculptor, born in 1949, who was still in High School when enrolled in the Red Army to be "re-educated". He arrived in France in 1984 where he let his art flow towards feminity.

Musée ZADKINE
100 bis rue d'Assas - 75006 Paris
01 55 42 77 20
Metro: Notre-Dame des Champs, Vavin
Every day from 10 a.m to 6 p.m except Mondays.
Entry : 4€

5 MAI - 25 juillet 2010 : IRVING PENN A LA FONDATION HENRI CARTIER BRESSON

IRVING PENN, photographe de mode mondialement reconnu notamment pour tous ses clichès dans VOGUE poursuivit sa carrière le long de 60 ans de vie puisqu'il est mort en 2009  travaillant toujours pour Vogue à l'age de 92 ans !

Contraste entre la Haute - Couture et les petits métiers:

Conscient de l'extinction des cultures dans le monde, Irving PENN voyagea de 1948 à 1971 de Cuzco au Népal, en passant par le Bénin, le Cameroun et le Maroc, photographiant les autochtones dans son studio ambulant.

Petits métiers de la rue : poissonnier, remouleur, chiffonnier, bougnat, ramoneur; Irving Penn les a tous photographiés de Paris, via Londres et jusqu'à New York, avec toujours une approche très intime de ces humbles travailleurs du monde.

Stupéfiante simplicité du décor que ce soit pour ces portraits de personnalités comme pour ses natures mortes, il capture son sujet en épuré devant un rideau de théâtre ou dans l'encoignure de deux parois: aucune échappatoire possible !

Découvrez ces 100 clichès des petits métiers à la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
2 Impasse Lebouis,
75014 Paris
du 5 mai au 25 juillet 2010
http://www.henricartierbresson.org/

EXPO NEWS : LUCIAN FREUD

LUCIAN FREUD au CENTRE POMPIDOU du 10 mars au 19 juillet 2010.

Lucian FREUD, 88 ans, peintre hyperréaliste. Son atelier: un huit-clos,  véritable laboratoire de la chair, univers voyeur, inquisiteur où l'Homme est seul, corps dépossédé de son intimité. Atelier où il ne peint que des proches dans une proximité qui peut parfois paraitre indécente. Voir " Leigh under the Skylight" 1994, styliste australien qui pendant 2 ans pose jusqu'à 5 jours par semaine !

"Je veux que la peinture soit chair"

Modèles comme jetés sur un vieux canapé défoncé, chairs plus que flasques, corps cadavériques aux reflets presque verdâtres, positions dénaturées et torturées, êtres boursouflés de partout,  dans une palette de couleurs sombres et lumineuses à la fois, comme de l'argile humaine.
Récurrent dans les oeuvres de Lucian FREUD : la plante verte, mais verdâtre aussi le corps, le canapé crevé comme le modèle ayant posé 4 heures d'affilée, le lit en fer ou enfer ?, le lavabo sale , les murs maculés de peinture. Et pourtant, la grâce d'un abandon... des soupirs, des tensions... Peinture sans complaisance qui nous pousse à la réfléxion sur notre propre décadence ou l'indécence de dévoiler le réel qu' aucun artifice ne vient adoucir ?

A ne pas louper, non pas parce que lui et Francis Bacon étaient les bobos de Soho avant l'heure, ni parce qu'il est furieusement tendance encore à 88 ans avec son studio à Notting Hill et son portrait de Kate Moss, ni parce qu'il a osé peindre un portrait hyper réaliste de la reine Elisabeth II et avoir le culot de le lui offrir, mais parce que sa peinture est si juste et ... dérangeante !!

LUCIAN FREUD au CENTRE POMPIDOU
du 10 mars au 19 juillet 2010 de 11H à 19H
Simplifiez-vous la vie, réservez vos billets en ligne.
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/

NOIR & BLANC : LE "PERSONAL BEST" D'ELLIOTT ERWITT

Le photographe Elliott ERWITT, fils d'émigrés russes né en 1928,  est surtout connu pour ses photos malicieuses de chiens ! Il nous fait aujourd'hui rire ou nous étonne jusqu'au 4 avril avec ses coups de coeur qu'il a sélectionnés pour former son "Personal Best" à la Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

Des humains à gueule de bouledogues, un amas de grosses cuisses flasques, un vrai régal réjouissant !!!! On croirait des instants volés mis en scène; il n'en est rien.

130 oeuvres sur 60 ans de photos composent ce "Meilleur de moi-même" espiègle, avec cet inimitable mélange de satire et de mélancolie.

ELLIOTT ERWITT

Maison Européenne de la Photographie

5-7 rue de Fourcy

75007 Paris

Métro : Saint-Paul