Category Archives: Modern art

In the footsteps of Van Gogh of Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Vincent Willem van Gogh lived in Arles from 20 February 1888 to 8 May 1889. That is almost 15 months, over 63 weeks, precisely 444 days. During his stay, he produced over 200 paintings, over 100 drawings and watercolours, and wrote some 200 letters. This period in Arles is frequently called the zenith, the climax, the greatest flowering of van Gogh’s decade of artistic activity. The pedestrian circuit “In the footsteps of Van Gogh” is one of the 9 themed walks offered by the Arles Camargue Tourist Office. Vincent van Gogh spent 15 months in Arles between 1888 and 1889. Coming to seek the light of the South, the Dutch painter produced more than 300 drawings and paintings during this Arles period. The places in the city where the artist set up his easel are marked with panels representing his paintings. During his stay in Arles between February 1888 and…

Guide Tour of Musée National Picasso, Paris, France

The Picasso Museum is the French national museum dedicated to the life and work of Pablo Picasso and the artists who were linked to him. The museum collection includes more than 5,000 works of art (paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, prints, engravings and notebooks) and tens of thousands of archived pieces from Picasso’s personal repository, including the artist’s photographic archive, personal papers, correspondence, and author manuscripts. The Musée Picasso is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris, France. The Picasso Museum opened in Paris in 1985 with a total of 228 paintings, 149 sculptures, and nearly 3,100 drawings and engravings. The building underwent extensive renovations prior to the museum’s opening, and in 2009 it closed for a major expansion, and the museum reopen in 2014. The museum located within the entirely renovated Hotel Salé, erected in the 17th century and…

Guide Tour of Rodin Museum, Paris, France

The Rodin Museum is a museum ensuring since 1919 the conservation and dissemination of the work of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin’s old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. The establishment maintains a collection made up of nearly 6,800 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 10,000 old photographs and 8,000 other works of art. With 700,000 visitors per year, the Rodin Museum is one of the most important French museums. The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Situated in the heart of Paris, the Musée Rodin benefits from an exceptional location a few steps from the Eiffel Tower and the Invalides. Comprising an 18th-century mansion and a sculpture garden which covers some 3 hectares…

Guide Tour of Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

The Musée d’Orsay is a museum in Paris, multidisciplinary museum exhibiting the richest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings in the world in the former Gare d’Orsay in Paris. Its collections present Western art from 1848 to 1914, in all its diversity: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic art, photography, architecture, etc. It is one of the largest museums in Europe for this period. Located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris along the left bank of the Seine, overlooking the Édouard-Glissant promenade, it is housed in the former Gare d’Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built by Victor Laloux from 1898 to 1900 and redeveloped in museum by decision of the President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and inaugurated for the 1900 Universal Exposition. Internationally renowned for its rich collection of Impressionist art, its collections represent all expressive forms, from painting to architecture, as well as sculpture, the decorative arts and…

Guide Tour of Gustave-Moreau Museum, Paris, France

The Gustave-Moreau Museum is a national museum located at 14, rue Catherine de La Rochefoucauld, in Paris 9th, dedicated to the works of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. The museum keeps a total of around 14,000 works. Most of his studio collection is exhibited there, nearly 850 of his paintings or cartoons, 350 of his watercolours, more than 13,000 drawings and tracings, 15 wax sculptures. The museum was originally Moreau’s dwelling, transformed by his 1895 decision into a studio and museum of his work with his apartment remaining on the first floor, bequeathed by the artist to the French State in 1897 for that his work be preserved and presented there. Today the museum contains Moreau’s drawings, paintings, watercolors, and sculptures. The building has three floors. Of the six small rooms on the ground floor overlooking a garden, four rooms are filled with drawings and sketches, one of which is devoted…

Review of Paris Biennale 2017-18, France

The Paris Biennale aims to identify and activate artistic practices that challenge the established values of art. It bring together some tens of notable participants, galleries and leading art, design and antique dealers, and high-end establishments (jewellers and watchmakers). For over 60 years, La Biennale has been a landmark international event. La Biennale presents museum-quality works covering 6,000 years of history from all continents and all disciplines. La Biennale is one of the most prestigious fairs in the world, ranking alongside other major international art events. Each edition attracts the main players in the art market, dealers, and prominent collectors, who gather together at this unmissable event. It is a very high-end fair and a unique opportunity to discover some rare items carefully selected by the various exhibitors. The participants and the cultural institutions help further the international reach of our exhibition. The big event of the French art market…

Guide Tour of Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris, France

The Marmottan Monet Museum, located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris near the Ranelagh garden, is a fine arts museum located in Paris. In particular, it presents a collection of works of art and paintings from the First Empire, as well as works by impressionist painters, including the largest collection in the world of works by Claude Monet. Musée Marmottan Monet features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, including his 1872 Impression, Sunrise. Marmottan Museum’s fame is the result of a donation in 1966 by Michel Monet, Claude’s second son and only heir. The Musée Marmottan Monet opened its spaces to Impressionism in 1940, when it became home to Monet’s iconic Impression, Sunrise. This painting, which has gone down in history for inspiring the name of the movement, was the foundation stone of the Museum’s Impressionist collections. In 1966 came another major event in the life…

Guide Tour of Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France

The Museum of Modern Art in Paris (Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, MAM Paris), is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, presents the municipal collection of modern and contemporary art since Fauvism, rich in more than 15,000 works, mainly focused on artistic movements linked to the capital and more recently on the European art scene. Located between the Champs-Elysées and the Eiffel Tower, the art museum occupies the east wing of the Palais de Tokyo, an exceptional emblematic palace of the architecture of the 1930s. The west wing of the palace, which belongs to the State, is also devoted to contemporary creation in all its forms. The museum, inaugurated in 1961, reopened on February 2, 2006, after a period of renovation, with an exhibition devoted to Pierre Bonnard. It is one of the fourteen museums of the city of Paris…

Review of Immersive Van Gogh Los Angeles, California, United States

Van Gogh immersive experience are real-life or virtual reality (VR) exhibits of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings. The events, held in cities around the world, are typically set up in large gallery spaces. Images or videos of the artist’s works are projected onto walls, ceilings, and floors, sometimes accompanied by animations, narrations, music, or fragrances. Opened since May 2021, located at Lighthouse Immersive and Impact Museums, the catalysts of the mesmerizing digital art space, brings its sensation at Los Angeles. The Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit makes its mark. Astonishing in scale and breathtakingly imaginative, experience Van Gogh’s art in a completely new and unforgettable way. The visually-striking exhibition encourages guests to experience the awe-inspiring works of post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh through 500,000 cubic feet of immersive projections, 60,600 frames of video and 90,000,000 pixels. Wander through entrancing, moving images that highlight brushstrokes, detail, and color, truly illuminating the mind of…

Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, United States

The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. The Bradbury Building is a historic landmark and architectural marvel, it’s designed majesty with fascinating and rich history. Built in 1893, still splendid more than 100 years since its opening. The five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork. The Bradbury Building is the oldest commercial building remaining in the central city and one of Los Angeles’ unique treasures. The most important aspect of the Bradbury Building is its architectural design, the Bradbury Building is unique not only for its dramatically projecting stair and lift towers, but also for its glazed hydraulic elevators giving access to the various office floors. These constructions serve to animate the volume of the court movement; a lively effect compounded of light filtering through the stair landings and…

Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, United States

The Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright originally as a residence for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall (built, 1919–1921). In July 2019, along with seven other buildings designed by Wright in the 20th century, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is the first time modern American architecture has been recognized on the World Heritage List. The Hollyhock House is noted for developing an influential architectural aesthetic, which combined indoor and outdoor living spaces. Сommissioned by aline barnsdall and designed by frank lloyd wright, one of the greatest american architects of the twentieth century. Hollyhock House is named for Barnsdall’s favorite flower, the hollyhock. Wright created stylized representations of the hollyhock plant throughout the house, which include the ornamental art stone, textiles, furniture, and striking art glass. Hollyhock House’s innovative plan and bold aesthetic were…

Review of Cologne fine art & design 2017-2019

The Cologne Fine Art & Design is a year in Cologne organized exhibition for art, old art, antiques, applied art and design. It complements Art Cologne, a fair for modern and contemporary art, which is also organized by Koelnmesse. The Cologne Fine Art & Design, also Cologne Fine Art called emerged Cologne from three exhibition events in 2005: the West German art fair in Cologne, the Art Cologne and the Antiquarian Book Fair Cologne. The Cologne Fine Art emerged from the Westdeutsche Kunstmesse, which was founded in 1970. It is thus one of the world’s shows for old art, modern art, applied art and design with the richest tradition. The Cologne Fine Art invites its guests to delve into a crossover of styles and eras that is truly unique in Germany. About 100 selected galleries and dealers present master pieces from Europe and around the globe. Discover art, handicrafts and…

Gaudí Architecture Tourism in Barcelona, Spain

Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), the architect who made the city of Barcelona better known around the world. The tour of Gaudí Architecture theme route will present his work and show how Gaudí broke with tradition to propose a new way of understanding architecture, both in terms of the application of geometry, the conception of space and constructive procedures, such as the use of materials, shapes and colors with which he endowed his works with expressiveness. Throughout its history, Barcelona has been an open and welcoming city. Thanks to the economic push and social progress, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th there was a dynamic process of modernization that affected town planning and all artistic expressions. The style of the time was called Modernism, coinciding with the European formulation of Art Nouveau and so deeply rooted in all spheres of society, that it quickly became…

Guell park, Barcelona, Spain

The Park Güell is a large garden with elements architecture located in the upper part of Barcelona, on the slopes of the Carmel hill overlooking the sea, not far from Tibidabo. It was designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, the greatest exponent of Catalan modernism, built between 1900 and 1914 and inaugurated as a public park in 1926. It has an area of 17.18 hectares (0.1718 km²), which makes it one of the largest architectural works in southern Europe.. In 1984 UNESCO declared the Park Güell a World Heritage Site. Güell Park is a reflection of Gaudí’s artistic fullness: it belongs to his naturalistic stage (first decade of the 20th century), a period in which the architect perfected his personal style, through inspiration in the organic forms of nature, to which put into practice a whole series of new structural solutions originated in his deep analysis of ruled geometry. To…

Infinity, Speed, Ethics, Nature, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin (GAM ), in celebrate the civic collection celebrates 150 years since its establishment, proposes four new themes for a different reinterpretation of its masterpieces: the third appointment of a journey, when the museum completely renewed the layout of its permanent collections, abandoning the chronological criterion and ordering the works on display in thematic order, according to a method that involves the rotation of the heritage, over 47,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and videos, with the possibility of distributing it according to transversal interpretative models and thus rediscovering masterpieces that have not been exhibited for some time. The two previous productions (in 2009 and 2011) involved eight different exponents of Italian thought:Gender, View, Childhood and Specularity ; Soul, Information, Melancholy and Language are the eight themes proposed so far. The stimulating nature of this choice provides for a transitory duration: the…

Renoir. From the Musée d’Orsay and Orangerie Collections, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The City of Turin, the GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin and Skira publisher present a splendid exhibition dedicated to the great French artist, with masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie collections in Paris. The collaboration strongly desired by the Mayor, Piero Fassino, continues between the City of Turin, Musée d’Orsay and Skira publisher, which began in 2012 with the great exhibition dedicated to Degas. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin presents an extraordinary new exhibition dedicated to Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), artist among the protagonists, with Manet, Monet, Degas, Pissarro, Sisley, Cézanne, between the seventies of the nineteenth century and the first twenty years of the twentieth century, of the great season of French Impressionism. An important agreement signed between the GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin – Torino Musei Foundation, Skira publisherand the…

Renato Guttuso: Revolutionary art on the 50th anniversary of 1968. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin

The Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin dedicates an important and focused exhibition to the painting of Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, Palermo 1911 – Rome 1987), a prominent personality in the history of 20th century Italian art and a key figure in the debate on the relationship between art and society, which was to significantly mark much of his life in the years following the Second World War. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of ’68 GAM offers an exhibition dedicated to the painter Renato Guttuso and the relationship between politics and art, a fundamental element of his artistic work. The itinerary starts from the 1938 shooting campaign, inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca’s shooting, to continue the analysis of the uninterrupted meditation on the theme of the struggles for freedom, of which the condemnation of Nazi violence in the stinging Gott drawings is strong mit uns 1944.…

Farnesina Collection, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

The Farnesina Collection is a collection of 20th century Italian artworks located within the Palace of the Farnesina, the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. With the creation of the Collezione Farnesina in 2001, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has made of contemporary artistic research an area of strategic intervention of its cultural policy. The acquisition formula based on loan agreements, free of charge, has led to a steady development of the collection through particularly relevant works for the history of Italian art in the 20th century: from Arturo Martini to Mario Sironi, from Carla Accardi to Jannis Kounellis. The collection, edited by Maurizio Calvesi until 2013, contains the most representative expressions of the visual arts of the 20th century Italian. The paintings, sculptures, installations and mosaics are distributed in the large spaces of the Farnesina building on the long path formed by…

Rooms of 20th century, Second sector, National gallery of modern and contemporary art in Rome

The National Gallery of Modern Art underwent a recent facelift, re-opened with its inaugurating exhibit Time is Out of Joint. The title, derived from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, alludes to the elasticity of the concept of time, a time that is not linear, but stratified, literally “out of joint”, is based on heterogeneity as the guiding principle of everything. In this exhibition, there are works by Gustav Klimt, Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miro, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lucio Fontana, de Chirico, and much more. It is a modern art lover’s dream. Taking up the entirety of the large building, the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, interactive pieces, ceramics, videos, and pieces solely with sound. In each room, there are artworks with different mediums to make you think about the relation of the pieces together, and it is difficult as most relations are not obvious. In a place where art from different time periods and art…

Rooms of 20th century, First sector, National gallery of modern and contemporary art in Rome

The exhibition “Time is Out of Joint” exhibition, in National gallery of modern and contemporary art in Rome, provides a discourse about time, its permanence, impermanence, and ever-changing state, to challenge and renovate the gallery’s space which allows new interpretations of the art than ever before. A distorted sense of time, with art from the late 19th century, art from the mid 20th century, and recent 21st-century art that do not seem to belong together. Everything has some relation; whether it be with the artists, the subject matter, the movements the art was produced in, or just by aesthetics. In each room, there are artworks with different mediums to make you think about the relation of the pieces together, and it is difficult as most relations are not obvious. In a place where art from different time periods and art movements are put together in one space, they come together…

Rooms of 19th century, Second sector, National gallery of modern and contemporary art in Rome

The exhibition “The great Time is Out of Joint”, bringing to completion an extensive process of transformation, reorganization and rearrangement of its collections, marked the opening of a new chapter in the history of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition, which is still open to the public, has undergone a number of transformations over time (variants, additions and replacements of works) which, by modifying the morphology of the exhibition, have brought to light a project conceived since from the origin in continuous modulation. In the imminent release of the publication dedicated to Time is Out of Joint (which establishes the fertile work of transforming space and collection by the exhibition of the same name après coup), the new Joint is Out of Time project reopens. Disseminated in various rooms of the Gallery, the works of E lena Damiani, Fernanda Fragateiro, Francesco Gennari, Roni Horn, Giulio Paolini,…

Rooms of 19th century, First sector, National gallery of modern and contemporary art in Rome

National gallery of modern and contemporary art in Rome redesigned exhibition spaces, The new gallery layout was inaugurated in October 2016, based on an original project which, by reducing the number of works on display, introduces the non-chronological reading key to the main exhibition “Time is out of joint.” Through its collections of around 20,000 works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea offers a rich portrayal of Italian art culture, from the 1800s to the present day. The current layout of the collections, designed around the theme of time, breaks away from the usual chronological path and branches off into simultaneous journeys in which works of art are placed next to each other for harmony, contrast, references, and quotations. The building itself, designed by Cesare Bazzani in 1911, displays a critical part in this reinterpretation, creating a dialog between the present and the…

Sculptures by Lucio Fontana, Milan Diocesan Museum

The section dedicated to Lucio Fontana consists of the ensemble of two nuclei that have come separately to the Diocesan Museum, intentionally gathered and exhibited as evidence of the artist’s extraordinary sculptural activity in Milan and in the field of sacred art. In 2000, the plaster casts made by Fontana on the occasion of the competition launched by the same in 1950 for the construction of the fifth door of the Milan Cathedral and the sketch of the Pala della Vergine Assunta, made in 1955, came to the Museum from the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo for the cathedral. To implement the collection of Fontana’s works, the white Via Crucis from 1955 arrived in 2011 at the Museum of the Lombardy Region, conceived by the artist as part of an intervention for the chapel of the Nursery Home Nursery Ada Bolchini Dell’Acqua (Milan, via Cascina Corba). Biography Lucio Fontana (19 February…

Room of Lucio Fontana, Museum of the Twentieth Century

The top floor of the museum is devoted entirely to Lucio Fontana. The Fontana Hall was designed as an environmental immersion work. The protagonists are the landmark Ceiling from 1956, initially created for the dining room of the Hotel del Golfo on the Island of Elba and granted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities; the Neon owned by the Fondazione Fontana; and the Spatial Concepts from the 1950’s. Biography Lucio Fontana (19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Son of the Italian sculptor Luigi Fontana (1865 – 1946) and of an Argentine mother, he began his artistic activity in 1921 working in the sculpture workshop of his father and colleague and friend of his father Giovanni Scarabelli. He then became a follower of Adolfo Wildt. Since 1949by breaking the canvas with holes…