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Tate St Ives: Modern and contemporary art

Tate St Ives: Modern and contemporary art

Musée d'Art Moderne -Troyes Le Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes est installé dans un ancien Palais épiscopal du XVIe siècle. Il regroupe somptueusement une collection des plus grands moments de la création artistique française, riche des plus grandes signatures du XIXe à la première moitié du XXe siècle (Courbet, Derain, Vlaminck, Braque, Staël, etc.). - 1976 : C'est au cours d'une cérémonie officielle à l'hôtel de Ville de Troyes (en novembre), que Pierre et Denise Lévy font don à l'État de leur collection d'art. La collection - qui représente, à l'époque, l'une des plus importantes donations reçues par les Musées Nationaux (près de 2 000 œuvres : peintures, dessins, sculptures, tapisserie, céramiques et verreries) embrasse la plupart des grands courants esthétiques qui se sont exprimés de 1850 à 1950 environ. Elle présente également des objets d'art "primitif", pour l'essentiel de l'Afrique et quelques uns de l'Océanie. - 1982 : Le 20 octobre, le musée est inauguré en présence du Président de la République.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art | LACMA St Ives Art Cornwall St Ives is synonymous with art. Since the end of the nineteenth century, there has been a thriving art community in St Ives. Artists have found the quality of light and the mild climate in St Ives to be extremely conducive for painting. St Ives is now the location of a branch of the nationally renowned Tate Gallery. In the first half of the nineteenth century, few artists painted in St Ives. The completion of the rail link to Penzance in 1859 had a major impact on the number of artists visiting Cornwall and the newly elected Royal Academician, James Clarke Hook, spent nearly three months in St Ives in 1860, showing three St Ives subjects at the Royal Academy in 1861. An engraving of a drawing by Edward Cooke dated 11th October 1848 of Carrick Gladden Cove - later re-named Carbis Bay The collapse of the mining industry in the 1870s led to St Ives needing to re-invent itself as a health resort and the completion of the branch line from St Erth in 1877 improved access.

MUSEE MATISSE DE NICE - MATISSE MUSEUM OF NICE - Bienvenue! (Welcome from the curator) Michael Foreman - Penguin Books Authors Michael Foreman is one of the outstanding creators of children’s picture books today, whether working alone on such classics as Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish and War Boy, or illustrating the work of authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Wilde and Terry Jones. THE BASICS Born: Pakefield, Suffolk, March 21st 1938 Jobs: Art Director, Artist, Author Lives: London & Cornwall First Book for Children: The General, 1961 THE BOOKS Michael Foreman was born in the fishing village of Pakefield. His father had died a month before he was born but “during the war the other boys’ fathers were away, and that helped me; not having a father didn’t seem unusual”. His mother ran the newsagents. “We didn’t have any books at all when I was a child,” Michael remembers, “although I did read all the magazines we used to get in. Michael delivered the newspapers. Michael studied commercial art at St Martin’s College in London. Michael makes journeys, often to far-flung places, to prepare for specific books.

Welcome to the National Museum of African Art / Smithsonian Institution Michael Foreman Journeying often provides the structure and imagery. In Hello World (2003), for instance, a bear in dungarees and a small boy go off ‘to see the world’ hand-in-hand, and are followed by kittens, puppies, ducks and other animals. They end up at night sitting on a hill, looking at the stars and moon (which looks back at them). The bear’s face, when first seen in white early morning light, looks very much like ‘Rupert Bear’. Over the past 40 years, Michael Foreman has become one of the best-known British writer-illustrators internationally, with more than 300 titles for both adults and children. Other highlights of his oeuvre include Leon Garfield’s Shakespeare Stories (in two volumes, 1985 and 1994) showing dramatic scenes in colour plates and black and white free studies in line and wash; they succeed in conveying a range of moods and atmosphere, from the ghostly haunting of Hamlet’s Elsinore to the moonlit mischief of Titania, Bottom and Puck. Foreman is a fine autobiographer.

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