Paris Art Studies – May 2018
Paris Special Exhibitions and Museum Visits
Thursday 3 May 10:30 noon -12 noon: Eugène Delacroix Retrospective
Slide lecture on the exhibition at the Musée du Louvre (29 March – 23 July) with Chris Boïcos.
Eugène Delacroix was one of
the giants of French painting, and the greatest
painter of the Romantic era. His last full retrospective exhibition in
Paris dates back to 1963, the centenary year of his death. In collaboration
with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre is holding a
historic exhibition featuring some 180
works—mostly paintings—as a tribute to his entire career.
From the young artist’s star
paintings at the Paris Salon of the 1820s to his final, lesser-known, and
mysterious religious paintings and landscapes, the exhibition will showcase the
tension that characterizes the art of Delacroix, who strove for individuality
while aspiring to follow in the footsteps of the Flemish and Venetian masters of the 16th and 17th centuries. It
will aim to answer the questions raised by Delacroix’s long, prolific, and
multifaceted career while introducing visitors to an engaging character: a
virtuoso writer, painter, pioneering watercolorist,
and illustrator who was curious, critical, and cultivated, infatuated with fame
and absolutely devoted to his work.
Place: Chris Boïcos apartment. 14, boulevard
Saint-Martin 75010 Paris. 6th floor (building code: 69168)
Métros: Strasbourg-Saint Denis, exit 3: Porte Saint-Martin
(lines 4, 8, 9) or République exit 6: rue René Boulanger (lines 8, 9 - fewer steps).
Time:
10 am for coffee and
tea, lecture begins promptly at 10:30 am. _________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday 10 May – No class Ascension public holiday.
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Thursday 17 May, 10:30 noon -12 noon: Wild Souls – Symbolism in the Baltic States
Slide
lecture on the exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay with Chris Boïcos.
The independent states that make up the Baltic
countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,
were established just after the end of the First World War. To celebrate this centenary, this exhibition presents Baltic Symbolism from the 1890s to the
end of the 1920s.
The liberating impact of European Symbolism which reached the Baltic
territories of the Russian Empire in the 1890s is inseparable from their quest
for independence. This exhibition illustrates the interplay of influences and
resistances through which artists forged a creative language appropriate to
their national and personal identities. Taking elements from popular culture, folklore and local legends,
as well as their unique landscapes,
they created a genuinely original Baltic art style. With the exception of the
internationally renowned Lithuanian painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas
Čiurlionis, the works of the
majority of these artists have never been shown outside their country.
Re-occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939, the Baltic nations again lost their
independence and the right to their national culture. This is therefore the first time that art from this extremely
rich and significant period in their history is being shown in Western Europe.
Place: Chris Boïcos apartment. 14, boulevard Saint-Martin
75010 Paris. 6th floor (building code: 69168)
Métros: Strasbourg-Saint Denis, exit 3: Porte Saint-Martin
(lines 4, 8, 9) or République exit 6: rue René Boulanger (lines 8, 9 - fewer steps).
Time:
10 am for coffee and
tea, lecture begins promptly at 10:30 am. _________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday 24 May, 11 noon -12:30 pm: Van Dongen and the Bateau Lavoir
Visit to the exhibition at the Musée de Montmartre (until 26 August) with Chris Boïcos
As part of the Dutch Cultural Year in Paris the Musée de Montmartre is honoring
the modern Dutch painter Kees van Dongen who moved to Paris, settling in
Monmatre in 1900. He soon became one of the best- known illustrators of the Anarchist
and radical Paris press of the period. For many years he lived in the most
famous complex of Montmartre studios of the period, the Bateau Lavoir where he was the neighbor of Pablo
Picasso. In 1905 his brash colorful
paintings of the ladies of the night of
Montmartre were associated with the scandalous new “Fauve” style launched by Matisse and Derain at the Salon d’Automne
and van Dongen joined the first artistic
Paris avant garde of the 20th
century. The musée de Montmartre is located in three old Montmartre buildings
housing the studios of Suzanne Valadon
and Maurice Utrillo and in a charming
garden in which Renoir painted in
the 1870s. It is the ideal location to evoke the artistic and Bohemian atmosphere
of Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
Place: Courtyard or lobby of Musée de Montmartre, 12 rue Cortot 75018.
Métro: Lamarck-Caulaincourt (line 12).
15mn walk or take Montmartrobus.
Time: 10:45
for 11 am start. Please bring
10,50 € for museum ticket in exact
change.
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Course
Fee: 66€ for 3 sessions, or
27 € per session.
Museum
fees are additional to course fees.
You
can sign up for individual sessions or a series by sending an email to
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or
by calling Chris Boïcos on +33 (0) 686 58 98 09 and by sending a
check made out to “Chris Boïcos” to Chris Boïcos, 14 boulevard Saint-Martin
75010 Paris.
Please
register for classes in advance to ensure that group visits are not full.
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The
History of Paris – Architecture, Urbanism, Society
Part 8:
Paris under the July Monarchy (King Louis-Philippe) 1830 – 1848
The great expansion of Paris
which began under Napoleon continued unabated under the Bourbons and into the
new period of the July Monarchy. The skyline of the city was gradually
transformed with new apartment buildings (Nouvelles
Athènes), shopping arcades, theaters, churches. The Revolution of
1830 overthrew the last and most reactionary of the Bourbon monarchs, Charles X. Under the new constitutional
king of the French (and not “of France”) Louis-Philippe
d’Orléans and his “July Monarchy” (1830-48) we witness the first impacts of industrialization: railway stations,
metal-framed buildings (Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève), the cutting-through of
new wide streets, gas lighting and asphalt. A renewed and politically-motivated cult of Napoleon led to the completion of the Arch of Triumph and the burial of the Emperor's remains at the Invalides. The Neo-classical (Ingres) and Romantic schools
(Delacroix) now compete for official
favor in the Paris Salon with the new artists of the “Juste Milieu” (Delaroche, Chassériau, Couture). Just before the
advent of Baron Haussmann, this is the period in which Paris hovers in between
a nostalgic past and the modern era.
Coffee and tea served at the home
session between 9:45 and 10:15 am.
Wednesday 2 May. 10:15
am – 11:45 noon – Slide lecture – Paris
under King Louis-Philippe.
Wednesday 16 May. 11:15
am – 12:45 noon –Musée du Louvre:
Art in the Romantic Era.
Wednesday 23 May. 10:30
am – 12:00 noon – City walk and museum visit: – Nouvelles Athènes! A walk through the 9th arrondissement,
the literary and artistic center of Romantic Paris.
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Course
Fee: 66€ for 3 sessions, or
27 € per session.
Museum
fees are additional to course fees.
You
can sign up for individual sessions or a series by sending an email to
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
or
by calling Chris Boïcos on +33 (0) 686 58 98 09 and by sending a
check made out to “Chris Boïcos” to
Chris
Boïcos, 14 boulevard Saint-Martin 75010 Paris.
Please
register for classes in advance to ensure that group visits are not full.
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Paris Art Studies at the home of Chris Boïcos
14, boulevard Saint-Martin. 6th floor
(building code: 69168)
Métros: Strasbourg-Saint Denis, or République
exit 6: boulevard
Saint-Martin (lines 8, 9 - fewer steps)
Paris Art Studies telephone: + 33 (0) 686
58 98 09
Email :
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Website: www.parisartstudies.com
