Evans, le photographe du vernaculaire américain Présenté actuellement au Centre Pompidou, Walker Evans (1903-75) est le photographe du vernaculaire. Il est difficile de s’accorder sur une seule définition du vernaculaire. […]
Decades of Hockney’s paintings, drawings, prints, photography and video at the Centre Pompidou Perhaps not surprisingly, I am fonder of David Hockney’s paintings in California, to which he was drawn […]
Works stem from Existentialism; looking at man’s significance in a meaningless universe Giacometti had a revelation as he was leaving a cinema in Montparnasse in December 1945. As the screen […]
First posthumous retrospective covering six decades of Rauschenberg The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is holding the first posthumous retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925, Port Arthur, […]
“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen”, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. For a few days in London, we […]
Roses (détail), 1889, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Hommage au Musée du Luxembourg en > 150 oeuvres Sur Les Roses de Fantin-Latour, le poète Paul Claudel a écrit : “Chaque tableau […]
Mystère, représentation et philosophie, un angle inédit J’ai vu l’expo la plus attendue de la rentrée : Magritte au Centre Pompidou. L’exposition offre une approche inédite du peintre surréaliste belge, […]
Abstract Expressionism was a phenomenon “Wow… wow…” said my art husband ‘J’, as we moved from room to room, “the Royal Academy exhibition is the “greatest hits” of Abstract Expressionism”. […]
Flowers = symbol of eroticism? This year, I learnt that flowers are a symbol of eroticism (Georgia O’Keeffe at Tate, Dorothea Tanning at Alison Jacques, Araki at Musée Guimet). Critics, […]
Hockney A Bigger Splash 1967, on display at Tate Britain (not in the RA exhibition) When I think of David Hockney (b. 1937), I think of his paintings of swimming […]
