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Behind the once-radical works of French Impressionism going on show are the real-life histories of artists who hung out and collectors who hung on. ....
Remembering Claude Parent’s unique take on modernist architecture Remembering Claude Parent’s unique take on modernist architecture We look back on Claude Parent’s slant on modernist architecture, five years after the iconic architect’s passing, by revisiting Wallpaper contributing editor Emma O’Kelly’s meeting with him in 2007 The late Claude Parent initially set up with architect Ionel Schein, but it was a decade later, when collaborating with his friend, the urban planner Paul Virilio, that his career took off. Pictured: the church of Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, an archetypal example of the duo’s ....
A lasting impression A lasting impression Museum of Digital Art provides immersive experience on huge 3m screens into the works of famous French artists published : 3 Feb 2021 at 04:00 1 With 3m multimedia screens, visitors can view the paintings up close. (Photos courtesy of River City Bangkok) In 19th-century Paris, art didn t equate to freedom of expression. There were standards for traditional French paintings stipulated by the Academie des Beaux-Arts. Artists who wanted to participate in the official art exhibition titled The Salon arranged by the academy had to follow its aesthetic stipulations such as using historical subjects or religious themes. However, there was a group of rebellious artists, the Impressionists, who disagreed with the standards and challenged the Academie des Beaux-Arts. The group included Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau, Georg ....
1747 (undated) 1 : 10134000 This is the earliest English map of Tibet, engraved for Braddock Mead s A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, published under his pseudonym John Green by Thomas Astley in 1747. It is one of the few maps of the region to rely (ultimately) on local sources - although the mapmaker s claim that the map was drawn from that made by Lama Mathematicians does not include the chain of Jesuit missionaries and French cartographers linking the Lama Mathematicians to the English engraver . The map covers an area from northern India (Delhi is shown) to encompass the Gobi Desert and as far as Kashgar. The map includes Lake Kokonor in the Qinghai Province of China, and embraces what is now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Himalaya Mountains of Tibet appear pictorially, but the map is rich in place names and rivers, including several rivers disappearing into the endoheiric basins of the Gobi. ....