02.13.2017 Valentine’s day
The history of Valentine’s Day is not very well known.
The history of Valentine’s Day is not very well known.
Condemned to never being able to embrace his beloved, he desperately tries to maintain the magic of illusion.
Pink is full of ambiguity. This is an elusive colour.
« … it is precisely a speciality of the Japanese package that the triviality of the thing be disproportionate to the luxury of the envelope. » (Roland Barthes)
Although originating from Italy, the charachter of Harlequin was born at the French the royal court.
Now aged 80, La Monte Young stands firmly on the fringes of the commercial world and continues to create music.
The role of decor in theatre production emerged slowly in successive stages.
Contemporary Art expert at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam analyzes the logic of patterns in Contemporary art
Yannick Alléno presents Terroirs, his latest book which main topic is fermentation in gastronomy, another praise of slowness…
Beyond the traditions, myths and superstitions attributed to the mirror, it occupies a special place in our thoughts about images.
Talbot is the English inventor of photography, just as Niépce and Daguerre were the French inventors of the same.
Through Herbarium, one of his most emblematic work, the artist tackles fiction and irony to create a dynamic of doubt.
Sudek’s mastery of the pigment printing process enabled him to produce highly atmospheric and evocative images, thereby reaping all of the reflective and descriptive power of the gelatin silver print.
« My meanderings through the world of photography made me veer firmly towards a religious and almost mystical perception of photography » (Pierre de Fenoÿl)
So many poets and writers have deliberated on the mnemonic power of smell.
« The thing I love the most about travelling is all those little titbits I find out about culinary culture, ancestral know-how, produce and regional specialities! »
Since the Seventies landscapes have blossomed in the field of «fine art » photography.
These ocean liners were real floating palaces.
The most dreadful journey can be undertaken with the smallest of steps.
A bright red boat glides gently across a lake fringed by dense jungle…
“This wordless poetry already constituted one of the most salient features of Dada.”
“I have always been really interested in the world of perfume because of its evocative power.” (Anne-Sophie Pic)
Towards a synesthetic approach to art, from the Renaissance until the 20th century.
Writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) planned to write five tales, each dedicated to one of the senses.
This particular experience – the magic of the moment – is based on our sensations: letting the work of the five senses gradually spread their wings.
Kinetic art reached its peak in 1965 when MoMA organised an exhibition that would go down in history: « The responsive eye ». When announced a year earlier in the press, an American journalist coined the phrase Op Art for the first time – a term that would achieve posterity.