The exhibition includes around fifty pieces from the Musée d’Orsay’s own collection. This is the perfect chance to see the colour, textures, and effects created by these creative artists. Viewers can compare the look of the enamels against the painted waxes to see if these masters really did capture their subjects with illusionism intended.
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Israël Silvestre is one of the French artists of the Baroque period who is mostly known for his engravings. Even though his engravings have circulated worldwide, most people do not know much about his drawings. From March 15th, 2018 to June 25th, 2018, you will have an opportunity to see his drawings up-close at the Louvre in Paris in an exhibition titled “France Viewed from the Grand-Siècle Drawings-by Israël Silvestre (1621–1691)”.
In partnership with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Musée Picasso will be presenting an exhibition dedicated to the story of Guernica, an outstanding piece of art that was painted by Pablo Picasso in the year 1937 and considered one of the most famous artworks in the entire world.
The idea behind the exhibition is centered around the balance of power and how art can be used to do or undo established political orders. It showcases forty works that explore how art has been used as propaganda to protest and subvert authority, legitimacy and the prestige rulers have. The works on display were sourced from the best, most prestigious museums in France like the Musée National du Château de Pau, the Château de Versailles, the Musée du Louvre and the Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris.
Widely known as one of the most influential French Impressionist painters in Art history, Claude Monet, born in Paris, in 1840, is hugely celebrated for his ephemeral depiction of the complex beauty, radiance, and fragility of nature in transient picture planes crystalizing momentary perception in a view beyond compare.