« Rouge » had certainly surprised me - although I don’t think I really knew what to expect when I went to see it but « La Lune » (The Moon) was a total surprise. This was not so much an exhibition but the history of the first man on the moon and then all that the moon had represented for artists over the different periods. Fascinating.
This is the 50th anniversary of the first human step on the Moon. What a good opportunity to take a look and the present and the long history which links humans with that very familiar celestial body. It was a journey to the moon. Once again HUGE - five sections with both real and imaginary dimensions. Once again, I only took photos which appealed to me so you will not necessarily being travelling though the artistic creations from Antiquity to the modern day. These were produced mainly in Europe but also by African, Arab and Far Eastern civilisations. Yes, really fascinating.
Just think too that if tourists are to visit the Moon within the next 50 years, they will probably be taking a space ship which looks like something out of Hergé. Who knows, the Aliens might be Tintin fans !
Here we go so enjoy your flight !
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| "MOONS", 2019 by Ange Leccia (1952-) |
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| "Study for Sainte Genevieve watching over Paris." Puvis de Chavanne (1824-1898) around 1898 |
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| Marc Chagall (1887-1985) "The Blue Landscape" , 1949 |
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| Semiha Berksoy (Istanbul, 1910-2004) "Love under the Moonlight" 1971. I love this! |
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| Paul Nash (1889-1946) Battle of Germany, 1944 |
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| Salvador Dali (1904-1989) "The ghostly Cow" - 1928 |
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| Sylvetre Meinzer (1971-) "Lilith", 2018 |
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| Abraham Janssens (1575-1632) . "The Incostancy around 1617. A cliché of the 17thC society that women were unfaithful by nature! More humid than men, they were thought to be influenced by the Moon, and thererfor unstable. This allegory (her name is on the drapery) shows a woman holding a crescent Moon and a lobster by the tail. As the lobster moves back and forth, it is the living image of indecision. |
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| Kudurru de Nazimaruttash (1307-1282 BC) |
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| Statuette of Chandra (The moon) - India - 2nd half of the 19thC. In Hinduism, the Moon is embodied by Chandra, a young man carrying a stick and a lotus flower. Chandra mocked Ganesh who had indigestion and Ganesh cursed him by throwing one of his tusks in his face leaving Chandra scarred and in the throes of perpetual change in India. Chandra is a common name for the Moon, one of the "nine" planets that effect humanity. |
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| Thot baboon holding Oudjat's eye. Vllc-lV BC |
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| Kifwebe Luba Mask - 1912 (oriental) |
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| Léon Tutundjian (1906-1968) - No title done in 1929 |
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| Jean Arp - Humane, Lunaire, specteral, 1950 |
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| Quite beautiful |
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| Salador Dali (1904-1989) "The Perle" - 1981. From the Infanta Margarita of Austria of Vélasquez" |
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| Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), "The Acropolis", 1966 |
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| Joan Miro (1893-1983) "At the Bottom of the Shell," 1948 |
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| Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) "Moon rising over a dock" around 1889-1894 |
| Meret OPPENHEIM (1913-1985) A moon in Light red and Cypresses in Front of a Black Sky, 1975 |
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| Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-1987) N°11-1955 "Silver moon" |
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| Anne Veronica Janssens |
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| FRANCIS MORRELLET (1926-2016) "Lunatic neonly n° 3 - 1997 |
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