French art
Show takes visitors back 150 years to Impressionism's birth
The Orsay Museum in Paris is marking 150 years of Impressionism today with an unprecedented reassembling of the masterpieces that launched the movement, and a virtual reality experience that takes visitors back in time.
Using VR technology, visitors to "Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism" can take a plunge into the streets, salons and beauty spots that marked a revolution in art.
Play aims to make ‘impression’ in Taksim
"The Exhibition," an immersive play examining the Impressionist painters of 19th century France, will be staged on the terrace of Rasputin Bar in Taksim on Sept. 21, 27 and 28.
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Giorgos Lappas | Hania | To August 31
"Giorgos Lappas - From Here to Eternity" is a career-spanning exhibition of works by the late Cairo-born sculptor currently on display at the Municipal Art Gallery of Hania. While telling their own stories, Lappas's figures also reflect the artist's interests and his ties with history, civilization and psychoanalysis.
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The Machines of the Isle of Nantes: A combination of the imaginative world of Jules Verne and the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci
Born from the imaginations of two French artists, Francois Delarozière and Pierre Orefice, and inspired by the industrial history of Nantes, as well as from the creations and worlds of Jules Verne and Leonardo Da Vinci, the Machines of the Isle of Nantes is an artistic project like no other.
Two Serbian artists at Autumn Salon in Paris
BELGRADE - At this year's Autumn Salon (Salon d'Automne) in Paris, which will be held on October 12-16, two Serbian artists, Bojan Jovanovic and Irena Vujanovic, will present their work "Bokiki".
They have, as deemed by a panel of eminent judges, earned the right to be among the best and most authentic artists from 44 countries.
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?zmir embraces the sea through the sails of Buren
The Aegean port city hosts one of the most important living artists, Daniel Buren, and his striped sails. The work shows that what we think of as unchangeable can vary with time and space...It is one of the last sunny days of mid-October, with tough winds over the Aegean Sea at the port of Kar??yaka, ?zmir.
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Peskirevic twins named ambassadors of Land of Impressionism
PARIS - Serbian painters and twin brothers Slobodan and Vladimir Peskirevic have officially been named Ambassadors of the Land of Impressionism, becoming the first in art history and history in general to receive such recognition.
As the originators of what the French refer to as new post-impressionism, the brothers won two top prizes in 2011.
Criminals to pay 18 mln euros over art heist at Kunsthal Museum
Four Romanians behind a spectacular art heist in the Netherlands were ordered July 14 to pay 18 million euros, with the fate of the stolen masterpieces by Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Lucien Freud still a mystery.