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Jackson Pollock. The Early Years (1934-1947)

15 October 2024 19 January 2025

The exhibition "Jackson Pollock: The Early Years (1934-1947)" revisits the early career of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), marked by the influence of regionalism and Mexican muralists, right up to his first drippings in 1947. This body of work, rarely exhibited for its own sake, bears witness to the diverse sources that nourished the young artist's research, crossing the influence of native American arts with that of the European avant-gardes, among which Pablo Picasso figures prominently. Compared to the Spanish painter and the great names of European painting by the critics, Pollock was quickly established as a true monument of American painting, and in so doing, isolated from the more complex networks of exchanges of influences that nourished his work during his New York years. The exhibition aims to present in detail these years, which were the laboratory for his work, by restoring the artistic and intellectual context from which both were nourished.

Tarsila do Amaral Painting modern Brazil

9 October 2024 5 February 2025

A central figure of Brazilian modernism, Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is one of Brazil's best-known and best-loved artists. She created an original, evocative body of work, drawing on indigenous imagery and the modernising elements of a rapidly-transforming country.

Starting in the 1920s, moving between São Paulo and Paris, Tarsila do Amaral navigated between the avant-gardes of these two cultural capitals. Having constructed a "Brazilian" iconographic world in Paris, put to the test by the Cubism and Primitivism so in vogue in the French capital, her painting was the root of the "anthropophagic" movement advocating the "devouring" by Brazilians of foreign and colonial cultures as a form of both assimilation and resistance.

Brightly coloured landscapes, dreamlike compositions and abstract geometry confirm the power of a body of work firmly rooted in its time and always ready to renew itself. Her work also raises social, identity and racial issues and invites us to reconsider the divides between tradition and avant-garde, centres and outskirts, high culture and popular culture.

Widely exhibited in her native country, very few exhibitions have so far been dedicated to her work abroad. This first retrospective in France which gathers together more than 150 works aims to bridge this gap and takes us to the heart of modern Brazil and its cleavages.

Exhibition organised by GrandPalaisRmn

Under the patronage of Mr Emmanuel MACRON, President of the French Republic

The exhibition will then be presented at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, from February 28 to June 8 2025.

Caillebotte. Painting men

8 October 2024 19 January 2025

The exhibition on show at the Musée d'Orsay in autumn 2024 focuses on Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and his predilection for masculine forms and portraits of men, and seeks to examine this artist's profoundly radical modernity through the lens of art history's changing perspective on 19th-century forms of masculinity.

The Lady and the Unicorn

Touch, Taste, Smell, Hearing and Sight... and a sixth piece symbolizing the sixth sense, with a blue tent and the inscription To my only desir. The tapestries that make up the Lady and the Unicorn hanging are among the most famous works in the Musée de Cluny collection.

Fun & Learn

Discover the world's greatest museums and their collections, inviting young and grownups to enjoy.

The Louvre Constellation, Jean-Marie Appriou
Contemporary Engravings

Engraving The Louvre Constellation - Jean-Marie Appriou

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The work of Jean-Marie Appriou (born in Brest in 1986, lives and works in Paris) plays with the blurring of temporalities, plunging into the archaic depths of sculpture to create new, futuristic chimeras rooted in history and myth. His creations have been exhibited in numerous institutions, from the Palais de Tokyo (2014) to the Château de Versailles (2017) to the Consortium de Dijon (2019-2020) and Lafayette Anticipations (2021).

The artist's studio is located just a few minutes from the Ateliers d'art de la Rmn-GP in Saint-Denis, so he was able to explore the printmaking techniques he had developed in the past. Passionate about engraving, he wanted to explore the technical heritage of this work by combining several aquatint and etching methods. Over a period of several weeks, the plate was used to experiment with where etching could prevail.
Jean-Marie Appriou drew on all his experience as a sculptor to transform the plate into a physical reality where each line, each point, would be the result of a mixture of chance and decision, while respecting the formal constraints of a plate designed to print unlimited editions, following the model of the Chalcographie du Louvre.
In this, the anniversary year of the Musée du Louvre, which opened in 1793, the artist is going back to the origins of the museum and, through his work, intends to create an animal fable of the museum. He has sought to identify animal emblems in the history of the Louvre in order to create a mythical portrait of the museum. In keeping with the title of his work, he invites us to discover the Constellation of the Louvre.

In this constellation, the She-wolf embodies the possible etymology of the name "Louvre";
the salamander refers to Francis I, who launched the work on the Cour Carrée and acquired the group of works by Leonardo da Vinci now in the museum's collections; the lion recalls Rubens and the cycle of the Galerie Médicis; the horse echoes Bernini's equestrian sculpture of Louis XIV, facing south-east in the direction of Versailles; the jackal of Anubis, a sign of Denon and the Egyptian Campaign that launched the Napoleon Museum; the dove, a symbol of peace, present in the ceiling by Georges Braque that marked the arrival of modern artists to the Louvre.
These animals make up a narrative of the Louvre, but the work is not just narrative: it creates a blurring of time, where all the emblems respond to each other, and emerge from the background of the image. In his childhood and early years as a young artist, Jean-Marie Appriou often came to museums to develop his eye. With Constellation du Louvre, he invites viewers to do the same, to continue developing the acuity of their eye, and to return to the museum to discover the collections.

Etching, aquatint on copper.
Engraved by the artist with the technical assistance of Lucile Vanstaevel and Marius Tessier, craftsmen from the Rmn-GP's Chalcographie workshop, and printed on a taille-douce press from the same workshop in Saint-Denis.

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