Impressive Impressionnists

The English landscape painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) is considered to be one of the greatest and most original artist of this time. However, this man who revolutionised the art of painting, constently turned for inspiration to other painters he carefully selected, both old masters and contemporary rivals. This exhibition is the first to set Turner’s works along-side those of « his » painters : Lorrain, Rembrandt, Titien, Poussin, Watteau….in order to have a better understanding not only of his debt to each of these but also to see how he differs from them. There are around one hundred paintings and graphic works on show. 
If you are in USA, The Corcoran  Gallery of Art in Washington exposed the paintings of the masters of impressionism. Most of them never show in USA. Inescapable.

 Turner and the Masters
Galeries nationales, Grand Palais
24 February 2010 – 24 May 2010

Turner to Cézanne
Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Until April 25th 2010

Yves  Saint-Laurent

“I’ve always had the highest of respect for this profession, which isn’t an art form per se, but which needs an artist in order for it to exist” .
The Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent and the Petit Palais (City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts) are showcasing the first Yves Saint-Laurent retrospective exhibition since the fashion designer passed away. A total of 307 haute couture and prêt-à-porter models are on show, ranging from the designer’s beginnings at Dior in 1958, with the famous “Trapèze” collection, to the splendour of the evening dresses from 2002.

He revolutionised women’s wardrobes.
Numerous photographs and films shed light on the historical background, the development of the Yves Saint-Laurent style and the aspects underpinning his creations.

In 40 years of creating, Yves Saint-Laurent revolutionised women’s wardrobes, by drawing on aspects of the male evening suit, trouser suit and safari suit to dress women, thereby passing attributes of power from one gender to the other.
The designer took inspiration from the streets (1971 scandale collection), his dreamlike journeys (Russia, China, India, Spain, Japan, Africa and Morocco) and interaction with art (Modrian, Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh).

Yves Saint-Laurent
at Le Petit Palais from March 11th to August 29th 2010.

Izis
A tribute to one of the greatest, yet overlooked, artists: the Paris City Hall is playing host to the exhibition :
Izis, Parisian Dreams. Discover 270 poetic images before 29 May.
The Paris City Hall is paying tribute to Izis with a major retrospective to the photographer and poet.
With around 270 photographs, books, issues of Paris Match and documentary footage, the exhibition Izis, Parisian Dreams at the Paris City Hall showcases the full range of talents of a man who was an artist, as well as a reporter, a great portrait photographer and someone with a sharp eye for a photo opportunity as he wandered the streets of Paris.
The main focus of the exhibition will be on Izis’ Parisian work, a paean to dreams and to the slow pace of life at the heart of a city which he endowed with legendary qualities.

La môme (Piaf) by Izis

Jacques Prévert by Izis

Crime and Punishment

The “Crime and Punishment, from Goya to Picasso” exhibition examines the aesthetic of violence and the representation of violent crime and the death penalty in the visual arts through a selection of striking works by major artists.

The death penalty, crime and punishment and Man’s desire to defy an all-powerful God and the supremacy of the King to mete out his own justice – these are all strong themes that have inspired generations of painters. Goya, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cézanne and Degas among others were fascinated by images of crime and capital punishment.

The works on display are pictorial representations of the guillotine, crimes of passion, male and female criminals, prison conditions and the last days of condemned prisoners.

The last few works on display depict the use of the criminal theme in the visual arts.

Orsay Museum
From March 15th   to June 27th  2010

Expositions

Paris inondé 1910
200 unpublished works from Paris during the big flood in 1910. Until March 28th
Galerie des bibliothèques  22 rue Malher (IV)
 

Il était une fois Playmobil
Until  june 9th 2010
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
107 rue de Rivoli 1er

Arts de l’Islam (Islamic art)
Institut du Monde Arabe (Vè) until march 14th.

Pierre Soulages
Until march 8th
Centre Georges Pompidou

Les Camondo
Until march 7th
Musée d’Arts et d’Histoires du Judaïsme 

From Greco to Dali. The spanish painters.
The Perez Simon collectio
From march 12th until August 1st.
Musée Jacquemart André
 

Musique / Opera / Theater:
Opéra Garnier :

La Dame aux Camélias, ballet in three acts from  Alexandre Dumas son.
Faust, opéra in two acts from Nikolaus Lenau.

Opéra Bastille :
Don Carlo, opéra in four acts from  Guiseppe Verdi

Barbara Hendricks  theatre des Champs Elysées 17 march 17th .

Dee Dee Bridgewater salle Pleyel march 14th.

Fairs and shows :
Atmosphère’s 2nd fashion Session
From Friday march 5th until Monday march 8th.from 9am until 7pm.
Jardin des Tuileries “Terasse des Feuillants”
202 rue de Rivoli – Paris 75001

The Box 2nd fashion Session
From Friday march 5th until Monday march 8th.From 9am until 7pm.
Pavillon Cambon,
46, rue Cambon
75 001 Paris