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July 2023

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Works of art in Disney cartoons?

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Disney cartoons are classics seen and re-seen by many generations. And if Disney has built a cartoon empire, it's because viewers are...
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Contemporary art

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Contemporary art is a term used to describe art created during the 20th and 21st centuries. It is characterized by its diversity...
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Formidable Valadon retrospective

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On the occasion of the exhibition "Suzanne Valadon. Un monde à soi" on view at the Centre Pompidou-Metz until 11 September. Black...
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Tackling an unlimited subject with a limited collection

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About the exhibition "La Répétition" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz until 27 January 2025. The choice of only one tiny painting by Claude...
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From geometric abstraction arises the real

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About a selection of American artists established by Artpress because they explode the codes within the rule. Geo or more than geo?...
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Medusa from Antique to Digital

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About the exhibition "Under the gaze of Medusa. From Ancient Greece to Digital Art", on view at the Caen Museum of Fine...
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Matisse's turn of the 1930s

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About the exhibition "Matisse. Cahiers d'art, le tournant des années 1930" presented at the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, until 29 May. Did...
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Women in Surrealism

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About the exhibition "Surrealism in the feminine?" presented until 10 September 2023 at the Musée de Montmartre in Paris. A powerful image...
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The renovated Goya Museum sheds light on Hispanic art

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About the reopening of the Goya Museum in Castres on 15 April 2023. After three years of work, the Goya Museum reopened...
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Artists' wallpaper

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A look back at the phenomenon of wallpaper as an artistic medium, on the occasion of the exhibition "Célébration Picasso - La...

June 2023

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Art Schools in France: cradles of creativity

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France has long been recognised as a bastion of art and culture, and its art schools play an essential role in training...
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Street art at the foot of the wall

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About the great turn the street art movement is taking. From the threat of prehistoric bears to that of police dogs, nothing...
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Keeping an eye on the art galleries

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L'Oeil magazine's journalists give a brief overview of the exhibitions currently on view in Parisian art galleries, starting with François Rouan's exhibition...
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A fine example of fraternity

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About the exhibition "Léon Monet, brother of the artist and collector", to be seen until 16 July at the Musée du Luxembourg...
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Marc Desgrandchamps and serendipity

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About the "Immortal" exhibition at the MO.CO. in Montpellier until 7 May, and Marc Desgrandchamps' upcoming exhibitions in Dijon, Annecy and Marseille....
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All the light on Anna-Eva Bergman

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About the exhibition "Anna-Eva Bergman - Journey to the Interior" to be seen until 16 July 2023 at the Museum of Modern...
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Figurative painting is contemporary

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About the exhibition "Voir en peinture. La Jeune Figuration en France", which runs until 28 May at the Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix,...
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Warhol/Basquiat: the clash of the titans

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About the exhibition "Basquiat, Warhol, à quatre mains", on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris until 28 August. It took...
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Let justice be done to Rombouts!

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About the Caravaggio work of Theodoor Rombouts and the monographic exhibition devoted to him at the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts. "The...

May 2023

April 2023

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The art of collage: creating unique works from fragments

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The art ofcollageis a fascinating artistic technique that allows you to create unique works by assembling different fragments of materials. Whether with...
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Contemporary art now counts with African photography

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On the rise of African photography in the international art market. "It seems to me that we are living in an extraordinary...
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Magisterial travelling retrospective for Marcelle Cahn

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About the exhibition "Marcelle Cahn, in search of space", which runs until 5 March at the MAMC+ Saint-Etienne Métropole, and which will...
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The art market in great shape

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If there is one place where everything is obviously going well, it is the art market. Auctions have been soaring throughout 2022,...
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Fernande Olivier, chronicler of modern art

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About the first exhibition centred on Fernande Olivier, a central figure of the Montmartre avant-garde, at the Musée de Montmartre in Paris...
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Pascal Convert links the living and the dead

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About Pascal Convert's work in the Miséricorde cemetery in Nantes and the artist's solo show at the RX gallery in Paris from...
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The best of Parisian art galleries

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A little update on the art gallery scene at the beginning of 2023: here is something to inspire ARTactif's subscribers, who are...
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The full and the untied of Nicolas Sanhes

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About the four exhibitions devoted in 2023 to the French sculptor Nicolas Sanhes. He is one of those who know how to...
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Sculpture makes a comeback

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About the great return of sculptors to art fairs and galleries. After the great return of painting, here comes the great return...
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