Paris Art

 

We spent a lot of time with the works of modern scupture in Paris.



Sculptors, like the early 20th-century, American mobile artist, Calder, spent time in Paris, influenced and befreinded by French, modern artists.

This piece facinated us. We walked from the left side, to the front, over to the right side, and back again, lots of times.



You can experience it a bit yourself as you move your curser quickly up and down. Do you see the stripes of black and color change on the left when you do?




We also enjoyed the lightness and play in this piece:

The girls loved the display of these Annabelle fashion magazines. 

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Jackson Pollock was American and introduced action paintings and a "drip and splash" technique, nailing a canvas to the floor and dripping the paint with energy, emotion and control. Can you find his dripped signature or hand prints in this piece? 

We saw a lot of Pollack's influence in these paintings as well, sorry that our cameras couldn't capture all of the dense color or black on white.

Kandinsky is a new Orlando family favorite. He was Russian, but spent time in Paris later, blending the influences of his earlier life. We loved the free and fresh use of color and design. Josephine spotted a cat in the left one. Can you?

We were always happy to find more by our French friend, Henri Matisse. We have prints at our home from this time when he a used compositions from his home and balcony:

These two, large collages hung side by side in the museum. When he was unable to stand or see well, Matisse painted paper, cut shapes and pasted them onto flat surfaces.

 Marc Chagall was another Russian-born artist. He lived in France most of his life where nastalgia, childhood and religion fill his dream-like paintings. Some of our favorite Chagall works are the stained glass windows he designed for a hospital in Jerusalem.

Our time in Paris feels a bit dreamy, in fact, not un-like like a Chagall painting. Photos are not the art, but they remind us that we actually went, and saw, and experienced, all that we did in Paris this week.