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January 23 - 27, 2012
This week we have one program.
To register please call or email.
Paris Art Studies telephone: 06 86 58 98 09
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Friday: The History of Paris
continues with Part 10: Paris at the turn of the century (1900-1920)
Friday, January 27, 11:30 – 1pm –
Musée Carnavalet – Paris of the Belle
Epoque and the early 1900s.
Meet courtyard of Musée Carnavalet at 11:15 am. 23 rue de Sevigné 75003.
Métro
Saint Paul (line 1) or Chemin Vert (line 8).
To register please call or email.
Paris Art Studies: 06 86 58 98 09
Paris
Art Studies – January-February 2012
Fridays: The History of Paris with Chris Boïcos and
Dimitri Papalexis for fashion
Architecture, Urbanism, Society - Part 10: Paris at the turn of the century (1900-1920)
The Paris World’s
Fair of 1900, the greatest to date, was organized to celebrate France’s
entry into a new century. In many ways, however, it spells the end of a period
rather than a beginning. Its triumphant beaux arts architecture and its
celebration of a French Empire belong more to the preceding period of economic
and colonial expansion than to a future that will turn out to be much more
turbulent and uncertain than predicted.
We will study first the Paris architecture of 1900, the bourgeois apartment buildings in the
Louis XV or Louis XVI styles reflecting the influence of the world’s fair. Art Nouveau remains the dominant
decorative style up to 1908. Guimard
and Sauvage are its great practitioners in decoration, architecture and the
design for the new Paris Metro. The
arts will be impacted by the birth of Modernism with an avalanche of new styles
and movements: Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, which will completely revolutionize the Paris art world
under Matisse and Picasso. Another revolution is effected
in Paris fashions. The bell shaped
skirts and picture hats of the Edwardian era will be replaced after 1909 by the
“hobble” skirt, the cloche hat, and the short hairdos signaling women’s
increasing independence. Poiret, Doucet and of course Gabrielle Chanel are the great modern couturiers of the era. The trauma of World War I will further accelerate the cultural and social changes
of the immediate prewar years and announce the modern revolution of the 1920’s
– les années folles.
Course Schedule: Varies depending on
museum reservations. Coffee and tea served at gallery sessions at 10 am.
13 Jan. 10:30 – 12 noon – Gallery – Paris 1900.
End of an era: the World’s Fair, bourgeois architecture and decoration.
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20 Jan. 1:30 – 3 pm – Musée d’Orsay –Toulouse-Lautrec, the Nabis and Art Nouveau.
2
Meet by group entrance B at 1:15 pm. Métro Solférino
(line 12) or RER Musée d’Orsay (RER C).
27 Jan. 11:30 – 1pm –
Musée Carnavalet – Paris of the Belle
Epoque and the early 1900s.
Meet courtyard of Musée Carnavalet at 11:15 am. 23 rue de Sevigné 75003.
Métro
Saint Paul (line 1) or Chemin Vert (line 8).
3 Feb. 10:30 – 12 noon – Gallery – Paris
1910-1920. Modernism and the First
World War.
10 Feb. 10:30 – 12 noon – Walk – Passy:
Guimard and Art Nouveau architecture.
Meet in front of 14 rue Jean de la Fontaine 75016. Closest Métros:
Ranelagh and Jasmin (line 9).
17 Feb. 10:30 – 12 noon – Gallery – Paris
Fashions 1900-1920. With couturier and
costume historian Dimitri Papalexis.
Students will receive from the instructor a bibliography, printed
chronologies and a list of historical figures.
Course fee: 120 € for the 6 sessions or 25 € for one session. Payable by check
made out to: Galerie B.O.B. Museum fees are additional to course
fees.
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Paris Special
Exhibitions* with Chris Boïcos
The People of
Paris at the Musée Carnavalet (until 26 Feb.)
Wednesday 11 January, 12:30
to 2 pm.
A wealth of prints, paintings, photographs,
quotidian objects and costumes evoke the life of the ordinary people of Paris
through the 19th century and the industrial revolution, during which
the city more than tripled in size, reaching 3 million by 1900. An illuminating
and moving show evoking the life of the rag pickers, migrants, faubourg workers, craftsmen,
laundresses, concierges, prostitutes,
cut-throats of Montmartre (apaches)
and their workshops, garrets, theaters, street life, entertainment and
revolutions. The show includes very fine images by major artists and
photographers including Daumier, Degas, Boilly, Grandville, Steinlen, Charles
Négre, Eugène Atget and more.
Place: Meet courtyard of Musée
Carnavalet, 23 rue de Sevigné 75003. Métro: Saint Paul (line
1) or Chemin Vert (line 8).
Time: 12:15 for 12:30 pm start. Please bring 7 € for
exhibition ticket.
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The Hôtel particulier, a Parisian ambition at the Cité
d’Architecture.
Thursday 12 January, 4:30
to 6 pm.
The decision of François I
to base the royal court in Paris at the opening of the 16th century
lead to the birth of the typical noble mansion in the city, the hôtel particulier. From 1500 to the
beginning of the 20th century the Parisian hôtel is a sign of wealth, prestige and power. The exhibition
follows the architectural and decorative evolution of the hôtel particulier through four centuries, by recreating typical
décors and focusing on four hotels emblematic of their respective periods:
Cluny (late Gothic), Lambert (Louis XIV), de Thélusson (Louis XVI) and the
Palais-Rose (Belle Epoque). Inside and out - salons, bedrooms, courtyards,
wings and gardens - every aspect of the Parisian hotel, functional and symbolic, is beautifully presented in the exhibition.
Place: Lobby of Cité d’Architecture 1, place du Trocadéro
75116. Métro: Trocadéro
(lines 6 and 9).
Time: 4:15 for 4:30 pm start. Please bring 5 €
for exhibition ticket.
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David Loeb
retrospective exhibition
Gallery Lecture by the artist on the exhibition at Galerie Beckel
Odille Boïcos (until 21 Jan.)
Thursday 19 January, 10:30
to 12 noon.
David Loeb is one of the finest realist American
artists currently living in France. He is exhibiting at galerie BOB with
another Paris-based American painter, Ronald Bowen. David was born in 1953 in
New York state and studied art at Cornell, Boston, Yale and Indiana
universities. He first came to France in 1985. In his painting he combines
meticulous observation of the world with a poetic and symbolist approach
discernible in his still lives, landscapes and portraits. In his slide lecture
he will be discussing paintings on exhibition but also from the past focussing
on his techniques and themes and connecting them to the artists that have most
inspired him from Jan van Eyck to Blakelock, Vuillard or Hammershoi. There will
be time for discussion and questions after his presentation.
  
Place: Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos
- 1, rue Jacques Cœur 75004 Paris. Métro:
Bastille (lines 1,5,8) exit boulevard Henri IV
Time: 10 am for coffee and tea.
10:30 am for lecture. Fee for this lecture: 5 €.
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Vivian van Blerk: Metamorphoses - a contemporary photography
exhibition
Gallery Lecture by the artist on the exhibition at Galerie Beckel
Odille Boïcos (26 Jan. to 10 March)
Thursday 2 February, 10:30
to 12 noon.
Vivian van Blerk is one of the finest art
photographers currently working in France. He was born in 1971 in South Africa
and studied at the Michaelis school of art in Cape Town. He moved to France in
1995. In his work he combines all of the historic photographic techniques but
never uses digital alteration. In his slide lectures he will be discussing the
arcana of taking, developing, printing and manipulating photography, the use of
a variety of supports from paper to glass, and substances from cyanide to
silver. Western civilization, its grandeur and decay is a constant theme in his
rich, detailed and imaginative work. There will be time for discussion and questions
after his presentation.
  
Place: Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos
- 1, rue Jacques Cœur 75004 Paris. Métro:
Bastille (lines 1,5,8) exit boulevard Henri IV
Time: 10 am for coffee and tea.
10:30 am for lecture. Fee for this lecture: 5 €.
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Fantin-Latour,
Manet, Baudelaire: Homage to Delacroix at the Musée
Delacroix
(until 19 March) Thursday 9 February 9:45 – 11 :15 am.
Henri Fantin-Latour’s Hommage to Delacroix was painted a year after the great
Romantic master’s death and the exhibition at the Salon des refusés of Edouard Manet’s first scandalous painting, the
famous Déjeuner sur l’herbe. More
than just a homage to an artist who was a hero to the young generation of the
1860’s, the paining proudly presents to the Paris public of the day the new
generation itself, the artists, but also writers and art critics defending the
new painting: Manet, Whistler, Legros, Bracquemond, Balleroy, Champfleury, Duranty
and Baudelaire. The exhibition traces the evolution of Fantin’s masterpiece and
relates it to other paintings and drawings by Fantin, Manet, Frédéric Bazille,
Balleroy, Bracquemond and Delacroix himself. Our visit to the musée Delacroix
will be followed by a brief excursion to view Delacroix’s very last paintings
of the same period, the great murals in the Angel chapel of St Sulpice.
Place: Musée Delacroix – 6 rue de
Furstenberg 75006. Métro: Saint-Germain-des-Près (line
4).
Time: Meet in museum courtyard at
9:30 for 9:45 am start. Please bring 5 € for exhibition ticket.
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Henri Cross and
Neo-Impressionism from Seurat to Matisse
at the Musée Marmottan (until 19 February
2012) Thursday
16 February 10 – 11:30 am.
Henri Edmond Cross (1856 – 1910) was one of the most talented followers of
Georges Seurat and practitioner of
the revolutionary new style of “Neo-Impressionism”
also known as “Pointillism” or
“Divisionism” pioneered by Seurat and Signac
in the 1880’s. In 1892-1910, Cross moved to the Riviera at St Clair, next to Signac established at St Tropez. The
Mediterranean coast become in this period an important artistic center for
modern art and the generation of Henri Matisse who will be introduced to Pointillism by the two older artists.
More than a 100 works from international public and private collections offer a
full vision of the interaction between the Divisionists of the 90’s and early
1900’s, including Seurat, Signac, Angrand, Dubois-Pillet, Pissarro, Luce,
Van Rysselberghe, Camoin, Manguin, Matisse and Derain. A special section is
also devoted to Cross’ celebrated watercolors.
Place: Meet in front of entrance to
Musée Marmottan - 2, rue Louis-Boilly 75016. Métro: La Muette (line 9).
Time: 9:45 for 10 am start. Please
bring 10 € for exhibition ticket.
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Course
Fee: 80 € for the
4 museum sessions, 25 € for one museum session, 5 € for one gallery session.
Payable by check made out to: Galerie B.O.B. Museum fees are additional to course
fees.
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*Please register for classes in
advance to ensure that group visits are not full.
Paris Art Studies at Galerie Beckel Odille
Boïcos - 1, rue Jacques Cœur 75004 Paris.
Métro Bastille – exit boulevard Henri
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