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Read our last feature article in
DRAWING Quarterly (Winter 2005)
an American Artist Publication:
"Studio Escalier:
A Vision of Contemporary
Classical Instruction"
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Books
Drawing with an Open Mind
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Light for the Artist
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The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing
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The Eye of the Painter and the Elements of Beauty
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Upcoming Events in Nearby Cities and Towns (see the
TRAVEL page for the easiest itineraries)
Bressuire /
Bocapole Center
Mauleon
Maulevrier
Cholet
Angers
Thouars
Saumur
Tours
Nantes
Selected Links to Nearby Museums (for day-trips or "studio weekends")
Each term, we encourage the organization of at least one extra-curricular trip to Parisian museums.
There are also a variety of regional museums with excellent collections nearby.
Group reservations of 10 or more can benefit from a 30% discount on train fares
(as little as 60 euros roundtrip, per person).
The costs of trips and museum admissions are NOT included in the price of tuition.
Musee du Louvre - Paris (2 hrs 30 min, total travel time)
Contains one of the most important collections of art in the world, including European drawings, paintings and sculptures (1100 to 1848); Near Eastern, Oriental, Egyptian, Greek,
Etruscan and Roman antiquities, and objets d'art from the last 2000 years.
Spring/Summer 2007 Exhibitions:
Chennevières Collection - French Drawings 1500 - 1860,
La Caze Collection - Masterpieces of 17th and 18th c. Painting
and
Praxiteles: Sculptor
Musee Jacquemart-Andre - Paris (2 hrs 30 min)
is the most extraordinary private collection of art in France, rivalling the breadth and quality of the Louvre.
It features some of the finest examples of French and Italian Renaissance, Baroque and 18th c. art, including painting,
murals, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts.
2006 and Recent Exhibitions:
Sous le regards du Goethe (French Drawings of Goethe)
J.L. David, 1748-1825
and Nicolas de Largilliere: Peintre de Grande Siécle
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais - Paris (2 hrs 30 min)
Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 (stone, glass and steel construction),
it now hosts major national temporary exhibitions organised by the Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Association
Francaise d'Action Artistique (AFAA) and the Delegation des Arts Plastiques (DAP).
Current/Recent Exhibitions:
The New Realists
Empire of the Gupta
Vienna 1900 (Klimt, Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka)
Poussin, Watteau, Chardin, David
Musee des Beaux Arts - Tours (1.75 hrs)
15th - 20th c. art, including Mantegna, Rubens, Le Sueur, Nattier, Boucher, Degas and Delacroix, 18th c. French furniture and decorative arts.
Musee des Beaux Arts - La Rochelle (1.5 hrs)
15th - 20th c. art, including Luca Giordano, Eustache Lesueur, Corot, Gustave Dore, -- special emphasis on 19th c. rochelais artists
William Adolphe Bouguereau, T. Chasseriau and Eugene Fromentin
The Cathedral of La Rochelle also features major works by Bouguereau, including his The Flagellation of Christ,
and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin.
Musee des Beaux Arts - Nantes (1.5 hrs)
Italian, Flemish and French schools; Modern and Contemporary art:
George de la Tour, Simon Vouet, Phillippe de Champaigne, Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet, Corot, Monet,
Sonia Delaunay, Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Chagall, Picasso, Annette Messager, Sophie Calle, Gerhard Richter
Recent exhibitions include: Simon Vouet - l'eloquence sensible, and Francis Alys'
"La Cour des Miracles".
Musee Rupert de Chievres - Poitiers (1.5 hrs)
Dutch, Flemish and Italian painting in a hotel particulier:
Domenico Robusti, Passarotti, Giovanni Lanfranco, Valkenborch, Maes, Potter and Hondius.
Le Musee Saint Croix - Poitiers (1.5 hrs)
From pre-historic France to the contemporary:
Bronze Age, Iron Age, Classical sculpture (Roman Gaul), Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Modernist and Contemporary art
Works by Rodin, Camille Claudel, Flandrin, Gustave Moreau, Sisley, Bonnard, Vuillard, Mondrian, Max Ernst
Summer 2006 exhibition: Six Claudel à Québec: Sept Rodin à Poitiers
Musee Jules Desbois - Parçay les Pins (1 hr)
Jules Desbois (1851-1935), a friend and colleague of Rodin and Camille Claudel, was one of the finest sculptors of his time.
More than 100 drawings, maquettes and sculptures on display in the place of his birth.
Click here for the French website.
Musee de La Roche-sur-Yon and
Musee Historial de la Vendeé (1.5 hrs)
Two concurrent exhibitions on 19th c. academiciens from the region, featuring an enormous number of professional
and student works: famous Prix de Rome academies by Benouville, Bouguereau, Lenepveu, drawings and paintings, ébauches and compositional studies,
portraits, nudes, and allegorical figures, history paintings, decorative paintings, and studies for the mural cycle of the Paris Opera.
"Baudry, Bouguereau, Lenepveu: the Formation of the Artist and the Prix de Rome"
"Les portraits et les nus de Paul Baudry, 1828-1886, un vendéen grand prix de Rome"
Musee des Beaux Arts - Angers (1 hr)
More than 500 drawings, paintings and sculptures on display in a majestically renovated 17th c building.
Special focus on the Italian primitives and Baroque, 17th thru 19th c French school
(LeBrun, de Champaigne, LaFosse, Watteau, Van Loo, Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, Vien, Guerin, Ingres)
and mid-19th c angevin academic painting and sculpture (including Lenepveu, Lehmann, Maindron, Signol and Bodinier).
Current exhibitions, click
here.
Recent exhibitions: David, Gericault, Friedrich, and a retrospective of artists
Marie Raymond and Yves Klein
Musee Pincé - Angers (1 hr)
Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Japanese antiquities in the Renaissance home of Neo-classical academicien
Guillaume Bodinier (1795-1872). Temporary exhibitions at the Musee Pincé recently included a
400 year survey of French drawing: Vouet, Poussin, Lesueur, Watteau, Fragonard, David, Guerin,
Ingres, Delacroix, Flandrin, Gericault
Summer 2007: Closed for renovations
Musee David d'Angers
(1 hr)
aka Pierre-Jean David (1788-1856) French sculptor, student of Jacques-Louis David.
Hundreds of works by the artist, including works of 19th c national figures, often nude, in the form of
monumental statues, busts, reliefs, and medallions, in a magnificent cathedral setting. His pediment frieze
for the Pantheon in Paris shows a group of distinguished French citizens receiving wreaths from the hand of France.
Chateau de Oiron - Thouars
(30 min)
A massive 16th century chateau, featuring a remarkably intact French Renaissance decorative and fresco cycle, based on The Iliad
(Ecole de Fontainebleau).
It now houses
an internationally ranked collection of contemporary art (Christian Boltanski, Sol Lewitt, Daniel Spoerri, Annette Messager, etc.)
on the Renaissance theme of the cabinet de curiosites.
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