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EDUCATORS’ GUIDE EDUCATORS’ GUIDE This Educators’ Guide helps ABOUT THE EXHIBITION • What are some of the teachers conduct a self-led tour Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co. (1900-1939) artistic styles you can see of the International Exhibition in this exhibition? as part of their school visit to In collaboration with Centre Pompidou, this exhibition focuses on the key • Louvre Abu Dhabi. Its purpose contributions of foreign artists to the Paris How did they appear? is to foster learning through art scene during the first half of the 20th century. A collection of 85 artworks features • What do you think students’ observational, important figures including Picasso, Kupka, influenced artists of that analytical, communication and Chagall and Modigliani, revealing the wealth critical thinking abilities. The and depth of the mutual influences and time? exchanges between these artists of varied in-gallery activities are intended backgrounds. • What did they want to for different age groups and show and represent? curricula. We encourage you to GENERAL QUESTIONS adapt and build upon them to • What materials did suit your classroom needs. EXPLORE these questions they use? with your students. ACTIVITIES ENCOURAGE them to observe The activities in this guide are based on closely and read the artwork labels a selection of artworks and are suitable to help them answer questions. for a range of age groups and subjects. You may modify the activities to suit your curriculum and learning objectives. REMIND your students that there The artworks introduce different aspects are no wrong or right answers, of first half of 20th century art in Paris, but it is important to ground their and a number of activities that you can answers on what they see and conduct in the museum galleries and recognise in the artwork. back in your classroom. EDUCATORS’ GUIDE Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co. (1900-1939) Welcome to Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, triggered by the presence of great artists from Chagall, Modigliani & Co. (1900-1939), the across Europe, including Russia, the Netherlands, seventh International Exhibition at Louvre Italy, Spain and other countries. During this Abu Dhabi. The exhibition focuses on the many period, many of these artists resided in Paris to contributions made by foreign artists to the Paris escape the social and political conditions in their art scene during the first half of the 20th century, home countries, which had made it difficult for highlighting how Paris was widely considered them to practice their art freely. the capital of the arts at that time. Important artists and influential figures such as Pablo Featuring the work of major artists, including Picasso, Kees Van Dongen, Sonia Delaunay, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Amedeo and Amedeo Modigliani are featured and Modigliani, František Kupka, and Constantin represented in the exhibition through 85 works Brancusi, the rooms of the exhibition reflect a of art put together by the Centre Pompidou. journey through 20th century Paris, highlighting The paintings, sculptures and photographs the geographical context of artworks and artistic represent the mutual influences and exchanges movements within the city’s neighbourhoods. between these great artists who came from Many of these great artists came together and many different backgrounds. created their own atmosphere in the city, not only in their studios but also in cafes such as Rendezvous in Paris reflects a common notion La Rotonde and La Coupole. of the time, which was known as ‘The School of Paris’, a term that first appeared in a 1925 newspaper article. It refers to many artistic movements in Modern Art, such as Fauvism, Abstraction, Cubism, Surrealism and Primitivism, as well as the artists producing era-defining works of art between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The School of Paris also reflects the great artistic exchange, influence and expansion within Paris between 1900 and 1939, František Kupka ARTWORK # 1 Disks of Newton. Study for Fugue in Two Colours 1911-1912 Suitable for Cycles 1 & 2 Possible subject connections: Science, Maths, Visual Arts ABOUT KUPKA František Kupka was born in 1817 in Opočno, Czech Republic. After studying in Prague, he moved to Vienna before eventually settling in Paris, where he used to paint in a Symbolist style. He also made a career as an illustrator, publishing satirical drawings. After serving in the First World War, he returned to his investigation of colour and movement and took up a teaching post in Prague. Kupka featured in the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1936. FAUVISM 1911-12 Oil on canvas © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Bertrand Prévost © ADAGP, Paris, 2019 © ADAGP, Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Bertrand Prévost 1911-12 Oil on canvas © Centre One of the first innovative artistic movements of the 20th century, Fauvism was inspired by Van Gogh and Gauguin’s use of intense colour as a way to Study for Fugue in Two Colours Study for Fugue in Two describe light and space and, most importantly, to communicate the artist’s emotional state. František KUPKA Disks of Newton. 1911-12 1911-12 ARTWORK # 1 ASK YOUR STUDENTS CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: COLOUR WHEELS Describe what you see. Study for Fugue in Two Colours Study for Fugue in Two How is this painting constructed? 1 • INTRODUCE students to Newton’s colour wheel. What colours are used? • EXPLAIN that they will be making Which ones complement each other? colour wheels to look at the effects 2 of and differences between warm and cold colours. František KUPKA Disks of Newton. Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Oil on canvas © Centre Paris, 2019 © ADAGP, Bertrand Prévost How does this painting relate • DISTRIBUTE different-sized circles František Kupka to Newton’s colour wheel? as templates to draw around. Disks of Newton. Study for Fugue in Two Colours 3 • DRAW three large circles of different sizes on a piece of paper. Draw smaller 1911-1912 What would you add to enclosing circles within them. Then this artwork and why draw a line through the middle of ABOUT THE ARTWORK 4 each large circle. With this artwork, Kupka explores the • FILL the sections of one circle possibilities offered by colours and circles IN-GALLERY ACTIVITY with warm colours, another with to create a new approach to painting, • ASK your students to look at a number cool colours and the last with based on the viewer’s emotions and senses, of paintings in the room. complementary colours. Make sure such as sight and sound. • ASK what they all have in common to use a colour wheel as a guide. and how they use colours. • CHOOSE colours that are opposite OBJECTIVES • DIVIDE your class into two groups, each other on the colour wheel and Students learn about Fauvism and the each focusing on one of Kupka’s place them opposite each other in role of colours in the creation of a new abstract paintings. your third circle. artistic style. • ASK each group to prepare a written • LOOK at how the colours they choose description of the artwork, as if they for their colour wheels are either HEAD TO THE MASTERS OF COLOUR: are talking to someone who can not contrasting or in harmony. FROM FAUVISM TOWARDS ABSTRACTION see the painting. • USE the following questions to SUGGESTED RESEARCH TOPICS • INTRODUCE your students to colours help guide the groups: • Abstract art (e.g. primary and secondary colours, • Pick three words they associate • Fauvism complementary colours, warm and cool with this picture, what words • Newton’s findings on colours colours, Newton’s colour wheel). would they choose? • Relationship between colours • RESEARCH how artists of the 19th and • What do they think of these words and emotions early 20th centuries used colours. and phrases: “Calm, but dynamic”, • EXPLAIN how artists’ technical use of “Aggressive and quiet”, “pulsating”? colour led to this form of Fauvism. ARTWORK # 2 Pablo Picasso Woman Seated in an Armchair 1910 Suitable for Cycles 1, 2 & 3 Possible subject connections: Maths, Visual Arts ABOUT PICASSO Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. He trained in Madrid and Barcelona, and arrived in Paris in 1901. In 1907, Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Girls of Avignon), a work that helped give rise to Cubism. During the First World War, he returned to a more traditional figuration. He is considered one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. CUBISM An early 20th century avant-garde art movement that marked a rupture with European artistic traditions. Through Cubism, artists tried to show the 3D world on 2D surfaces, with several viewpoints at once. 1919 Oil and sand on canvas © Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP © Succession Picasso 2019 1919 Oil and sand on canvas © Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM - Centre Woman Seated in an Armchair Woman Pablo PICASSO ARTWORK # 2 HEAD TO FOREIGN CUBISTS AND FIND THIS PAINTING. CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: CUBIST PORTRAIT ASK YOUR STUDENTS • INTRODUCE the work of Picasso and the Cubist movement. What does the painting • ASK them to choose a friend to sit down for a portrait. 1919 Oil and sand on canvas © Service de la documentation 1919 Oil and sand on canvas © Service de la documentation represent? 1 • EXPLAIN that they will take 5-6 How do the features of the photo portraits of their friend that shows different sides of their face. 2 character appear to you? • PRINT the photos and cut each one into random pieces. The shapes Woman Seated in an Armchair Woman Does the character in should be geometric forms. • ARRANGE the pieces so they 3 this painting seem flat? represent the face from multiple Pablo PICASSO Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist.
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    Paris, 8th February 2013 Press release Contemporary art - France MARCEL DUCHAMP PRIZE Artists nominated for the 2013 Prize Farah ATASSI, Latifa ECHAKHCH Claire FONTAINE, Raphaël ZARKA Created in 2000 by the ADIAF in the aim of promoting the French artistic scene, each year the Marcel Duchamp Prize honours a French artist or an artist residing in France working in the field of the plastic and visual arts. The ambition of this collectors’ prize, organized in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, is to bring together the most innovative artists of their generation and contribute to raising their profile on the international scene. On the 7 th of February at ARTCURIAL, Gilles Fuchs, President of the ADIAF, Association for the International Diffusion of French Art, announced the names of the four artists selected for the 2013 Marcel Duchamp Prize. A first exhibition of the nominated artists will be held this summer at the Musée des Beaux-arts in the town of Libourne which will be hosting the 13 th edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, then in October at the FIAC. Chosen by an international jury, the award winner will be announced on Saturday, the 26th of October 2013. He or she will be invited by the Centre Pompidou for a solo show in the 315 space during the autumn of 2014. The ADIAF will present him or her with a financial endowment of 35 000 Euros and will participate in the production of the work. Nominated artists International jury Farah ATASSI , born in 1981 in Brussels Bernhard Mendes BÜRGI (Switzerland), Director of Lives and works