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Paris Art Studies – May-June 2013
The Story
of Impressionism: Art in France 1860-1900 with Chris Boïcos
Part 3: Later Impressionism - French painting
1878-1886.
The 1878 financial crash signals the first
important economic and also artistic
crisis for the Impressionist group. Monet, Renoir and Pissarro each begin
reconsidering the tenets of the style in response to the ongoing criticism
provoked by their exhibitions. The
two women members of the group, Berthe
Morisot and the latest recruit, the American Mary Cassatt affirm their presence and provide a uniquely feminine
perspective to the depiction of modern life. Loss also marks this period with
the death of Camille, Monet’s wife
and that of the great Edouard Manet
in 1883. The economic situation begins improving after 1881 with the advent of
the first American collectors. But
disagreements and the introduction into the shows by Degas and Pissarro of new
artists with more radical stylistic ambitions like Gauguin and Seurat will lead
to the dissolution of the group after
the final exhibition of 1886.
Tu. 14 May 10:30am – 12 noon – Gallery slide lecture – Monet
at Vétheuil and the “Crisis of Impressionism”.
Wed. 22 May 3:30pm – 5pm
– Visit to Musée d’Orsay – Impressionism
1878-1886.
Purchase your own ticket on line and meet inside
museum at the beginning of ground floor sculpture section just after
coming down main steps. (Metros: RER Musée d’Orsay or Solférino)
Tu. 28 May 10:30am – 12 noon – Gallery slide lecture – The
modern life painters: Manet, Degas, Caillebotte, Renoir, Morisot and Cassatt.
Tu. 4 June 10:30am – 12 noon – Visit to Musée Marmottan: Monet
and Berthe Morisot collections.
Meet outside museum entrance, 2 rue
Louis Boilly 75016 (Métro La Muette, line 9) at 10:20 am.
Tu. 11 June 10:30am – 12 noon – Gallery slide lecture – Nature
into Art: Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne in the 1880’s.
Mo. 17 June
11:45am – 1:15 pm – Visit to Musée de l’Orangerie: Impressionism
after 1890, a glimpse into the future. Meet outside museum entrance at
11:30 am. South side (Seine side) of Tuileries Gardens facing place de la
Concorde. Metro: Concorde (lines 1,
8,12)
Course Schedule: Coffee and tea are
served at gallery sessions between 10:00 and 10:30 am.
Students will receive from the instructor a printed historical
chronology and list of artists.
Course fee: 120 € for the 6 sessions, 100 € for 5 sessions, or 25 € per
session payable by check made out to: Galerie B.O.B.
Please note: Museum admissions are additional to
course fees. Exact change is appreciated.
Purchasing the “carte
blanche” is recommended for the Tuesday courses and for quick and
economical entry to special exhibitions held at the Musée d’Orsay.
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Paris
Special Exhibitions and City Walks with Chris Boïcos:
Thursday 23 May 9:30 – 11:15 am – A French passion -The Spencer and Marlene Hays
collection.
Visit to special exhibition at Musée d’Orsay exhibition (until 18 August
2013).
An exceptional exhibition of one
of the greatest present day private
collections in the U.S.A. of late 19th century French art. The Hays, who originate in Nashville, have put together over the last 40 years
an ensemble of French paintings and drawings which is remarkable both for its
historical importance and also for the quality of the artwork which is all of
high museum standards. The collection is very strong in the Nabi movement of the 1890’s with many
delicate and moody works by Vuillard,
Bonnard, Roussel and Maurice Denis.
Lesser 19th century figures like Boldini, Pelez, Tissot,
Fantin-Latour and Eva Gonzalez are represented by works of exceptional quality
too. Symbolism is represented by
Redon and Ranson and a modernist postscript is given by a beautiful Matisse and Modigliani. This is a wonderful opportunity to see
masterpieces that are almost never shown publicly, and are now on show thanks to the close friendship
between the Hays and the director of the Musée d’Orsay, Guy Cogeval.
Place: Meet by group entrance B Musée d’Orsay (Metros: RER Musée d’Orsay or Solférino)
Time: Promptly at 9:15 am for 9:30 entrance.
Please bring 11 € in exact change for
ticket and headphones.
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Friday 24 May 9:15am – 10:45 am – Giotto and his companions
Visit to the Musée du Louvre special exhibition (date June 1203).
Giotto di Bondone is the greatest
Italian painter of the 14th century. Inspired by the preaching and passion
plays of the new mendicant orders, the Franciscans
and the Dominicans of the late Middle Ages, he is the first painter to
introduce story telling and a strong sense of psychology and emotion into religious painting. By also introducing
details from daily life, space, volume,
daylight and the beginning of earth based perspective
he revolutionized Italian painting and laid the base for the art of the Renaissance which began 60 years after
his death. The current Louvre exhibition is built around the three masterpieces
by the artist in the museum’s collections, two Crucifixions and the altarpiece
of “St Francis Receiving the Stigmata” accompanied by important works from
Italian and international collections by the artist and his followers. This is
a unique opportunity to examine the true roots of the Italian Renaissance.
Place:
Meet with ticket in hand by
information desk inside Louvre pyramid.
Métro: Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre (lines 1,7).
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Thursday 30 May 10:30 – 12 noon – Tamara de Lempicka – the Queen of Art Deco
Visit to Pinacothèque de Paris special exhibition (until 8 September
2013).
A rare retrospective of the paintings and
portraits of one of the most notorious figures of the “années folles” in Paris. Of Polish origins, Tamara de Lempicka
(1898-1980) emigrated to Paris after the Russian Revolution in 1918. In Paris
she became a fixture of high society,
the cinema world and that of the decorative arts and illustration. Her steely,
streamlined style suited the modernist tastes of her sophisticated public
without seeming as radical as that of Picasso. The exhibition explores her art
and colorful life with its many bisexual
love affairs (with among others, Violette Treffusis, Vita Sackville-West,
Colette and Suzy Solidor).
Place: Lobby of Pinacothèque II - 8, rue Vignon 75009 Paris. Metro: Madeleine (lines 8, 12, 14)
Time: Promptly at 10:15 for 10:30 am entrance.
Please bring 10 € in exact change for
exhibition ticket.
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Thursday 6 June 12 noon – 1:30 pm – Keith Haring, the Political Line.
Visit to Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris special exhibition
(until 18 August 2013).
One of the largest exhibitions ever held of the
work of one the most controversial icons
of the 1980’s New York art scene. Keith Haring (1958-1990) was part of the East Village and later SoHo scene, a graffiti artist of the same generation as Kenny Scharf and
Jean-Michel Basquiat, a clever kid who made it to the highest ranks of the art
world. He openly militated for gay
issues and established in 1989 the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations
and children's programs shortly before his death from AIDS related causes the
next year. The current exhibition brings together 250 works on canvas, tarpaulin and many very large format
paintings,
as well as works created for the New York subway.
Place: Meet
in museum lobby. 1 avenue du Président
Wilson. Métro: Iéna
(line 9)
Time:
11:45 for 12noon start. Please
bring 8 € in exact change for museum ticket.
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Thursday 13 June 11 am – 12:30
pm – The Buttes Chaumont and the Mouzaia disrict
A walk through leafy northeastern Paris (19th arrondissement).
A walk through one of Paris’ famous working class
districts boasting the city’s probably most beautiful park, designed under Baron Haussmann by the celebrated Alphand. Planted on an abandoned hillside quarry, the park is the
highest in Paris, boasting vertiginous mountain
“peaks”, great views of the city, a suspended iron bridge, “dangerous”
mountain paths, a lake and a waterfall
with walk-in grotto. It was a favorite
haunt of the Surrealists in the 1920’s.
The surrounding district of small houses and gardens along flowered alleys and steps dates from
the 1920’s and 30’s and has the by-gone charm of Edith Piaf’s Paris.
Place: Meet main exit of Metro
Place des Fêtes (line 11)
Metro: Place
des Fêtes (line 11) Time: 10:45 for 11am start.
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Thursday 20 June 11 – 12:30 pm – A walk through the Montsouris and Tombe
d’Issoire districts
A walk through leafy southern Paris (14th arrondissement).
A marvelously preserved 1920's suburban district
of narrow quiet streets and garden
"villas" next to a leafy Haussmannian park, this part of the 14th
was a favorite abode for artists
(Braque, Foujita, Ozenfant, whose house was designed by Le Corbusier) and writers (Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin). Our walk will take us past their houses
and the best 1920's villas and artists’ studios
in a district to which the more successful artists moved to escape the
hubbub of central Montparnasse
Place: Meet exit of RER Cité Universitaire 75014
Métro: RER Cité Universitaire (line B) Time: 10:45
for 11am start.
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Course Fees: 135 € for 7 sessions, 120 € for 6 sessions, 100 € for 5 sessions,
or 25 € per session.
Museum fees are
additional to course fees*.
You can sign up for individual sessions or a series by sending an email or by calling Chris Boïcos on
+33 (0) 686 58 98 09
and by sending a
check made out to “Galerie B.O.B” to the gallery.
Museum fees are
additional to course fees*.
Please register for classes in advance to ensure that group visits are
not full.
*Please note that sometimes museum ticket
prices go up slightly between the time of reservation and the actual date of
the visit.
