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Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Raphael of Botanica
It was in June of 1840, the month of roses, when Pierre-Joseph Redouté died suddenly at the age of eighty. His coffin was laid to …
A doorway to the Belle Epoque in Paris
The mere mention of the word ‘Paris’ can conjure a vision of rows of handsome Hausmann stone buildings – some of them sober and classically …
The Art of Analogue Modernism
Artist Sonia Delauney moved to Paris from the Ukraine in the early 1900s where her art was hugely influential… When we think of the defining …
Winston Churchill’s love of painting on the French Riviera
In 2015, artist Paul Rafferty began a project to find the locations of Sir Winston Churchill’s painting locations for a book. His focus was the …
Georges Seurat and the art of pointillism
In the 1880s, French artist Georges Seurat was using tiny points of colour to create paintings that conveyed a sense of calmness, including slowly flowing …
The classified arts of France
Every now and again, when chatting to French friends they’ll drop in a sentence that contains the words “the 7th Art” or maybe “the 9th …
Carrieres de Lumieres, sound and light shows Paris and Provence
What do an abandoned quarry and an old iron foundry have in common? They both house magical sound-and-light shows that must be seen to be …
In the footsteps of the Impressionists on the Alabaster Coast of France
Claude Monet’s paintings of the Alabaster coast in Normandy, and in particular Etretat, are hung on the walls of the most prestigious art museums throughout …
In the footsteps of the post-Impressionists in Provence
In the 1870’s the Impressionists and post-impressionists were centralized in the Parisian capital. Here they would discuss art and their next exhibitions in the cafés …
A most incredible art event for 2019 | Lille3000 is weird, whacky and wonderful
In 2015 I went to the Lille for the opening parade of Lille3000. I had no idea what to expect. I’d heard from friends that …