Exhibition: Montrouge Contemporary Art Show
Click on the images to enlarge them.The 56thSalon d’art contemporain de Montrouge opened its doors last week. Considered a real “career booster” for the selected participating artists, this...
View ArticleExhibition: “Truer Than Life” at the Maison Baccarat
The "Tsar's Candelabrum" (1878) and the "Tsarina's Candelabrum" (1878). Green cullet (scrap crystal) wall and several smaller stag-inspired crystal pieces.© Photo DR, BaccaratClick on the picture to...
View ArticleExhibition: Le papier à l'oeuvre
Edgar Degas, "Dancer seen from back, hands on hips"About 1873, Musée d'Orsay, preserved by Louvre Museum Graphic Arts Department, photo © RMN The Paper at Work (Le papier à l’oeuvre) exhibition at the...
View ArticleExhibition: Antoine Bourdelle, Draughtsman
“Sculpture is drawing in every direction.” (Antoine Bourdelle)(click on the pictures to enlarge them)The Bourdelle Museum courtyard(photo© Mends)Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) is a lesser,...
View ArticleWhat is Texan Folk Art?
Yee ha.When I was getting ready to go to Texas. I had a few misconceptions. I expected a dusty desert with a single highway heading straight to the horizon. A few tall cactus scattered along either...
View ArticleThe Salon du Dessin to open its doors in Paris in April
Click on the image to enlarge it."Study of Dog", Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1686, private collectionThe Salon du Dessin will be opening its doors soon in Paris, from 10th to 15th April 2013. I can recall...
View ArticleGreat Blogs and Websites: Inventing Abstraction
Click on Pablo Picasso's name and you get this.Fun! On my recent New York trip for training as a certified Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain teacher, I saw the "Inventing Abstraction" exhibition...
View ArticleExhibitions: The Most Successful Pompidou Centre Shows
The recent Dali exhibition (from 21 November to 25 March) at the Pompidou Centre was an enormous success, as expected: for 198 days of exhibition, there were 7,315 people entering the show daily, for...
View ArticleExhibitions: Keith Haring
Keith Haring, December 1984, © Tristan Jeanne-ValèsIn France in 1984, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, otherwise called the MAM, was organizing an exhibition featuring the French artist Robert...
View ArticleExhibition: "De l'Allemagne 1800-1939" at the Louvre
"Mountainous Landscape with River Valley and Abbey at Evening Light",Carl Gustav Carus, one artist whose work is exhibited at the "De l'Allemagne" exhibition"De l'Allemagne - 1800-1939" is a major...
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