VERSION FRANCAISE Auguste Rodin is monumental, and celebrating the 100th anniversary of his death is an ode to the art of sculpting. Of his well-known works, those considered true symbols are “The Bourgeois of Calais,” “The Gates of Hell,” “The Kiss,” “Balzac,” and even “The Thinker.” These sculptures were all presented in 1993 at…
to Mar(t)fa, rather… VERSION FRANCAISE It was a complete visual and cultural shock—as a lover of art and the countryside, I was overwhelmed. It was as if discovering a separate universe, everything was beautiful, a sort of nostalgia touched with a hint of arid dryness. I actually liked the heat, not so stifling, and…
VERSION FRANCAISE By Charlotte Le Grix de la Salle Translated by Brianna Reed Can light have a morality? Or rather virtue, like silence, a way of enveloping living beings and objects to reveal what’s hidden, or even divine? Thanks to Vermeer, we are familiar with and can recognize chiaroscuros, the shine of a…
VERSION FRANCAISE Alexei Jawlensky : An iconic figure of Russian expressionism collected by Ronald S. Lauder. It was with much impatience that I awaited the monographic exhibit of Alexei Jawlensky at the Neue Galerie of New York. In March of 2012, I happened upon this emblematic figure of Der Blaue Reiter during the exhibit called EXPRESSIONISMUS…
VERSION FRANCAISE The discovery of a life that we could have only dared to imagine! The path to discovering a masterpiece that was believed to have disappeared often resembled a police investigation. The expert, a specialist of old masters and fine arts, was often a detective of history who had to collect clues and facts,…
VERSION FRANCAISE What I quickly perceived in Hans Hartung’s painting was his force and strong will that appear throughout his work. The paintings become animated when one looks at them, and I personally feel that the life-loving artist’s movements are actually a dialogue between himself and the viewer. When Hartung was…
Florence Briat-Soulié VERSION FRANÇAISE “It’s instinctive in a certain kind of painting, not as if you were painting an object or special things, but it’s like coming through the nervous system. It’s like a nervous system. It’s not described, it’s happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from…
