Saint Patrick d'Irlande

 

 

Picasso bust of Dora Maar looking rather green today.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

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Some favorite Irish pubs in Paris to lift a glass:

Le Galway Irish Pub

Brady's Irish Pub

Corcoran's Irish Pub

The Harp Bar

O'Sullivans

Murphy's House

- Check for info and opening hours -

Window Wednesday

 Window into the mesmerizing worlds of Pablo Picasso and Henri (Le Douanier) Rousseau.

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Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau are the latest dynamic duo pairing at the Atelier des Lumières, with both men's artistic styles diverging dramatically despite sharing the same era. Picasso, a titan of modern art, pioneered Cubism with its fragmented, abstract forms, breaking reality into geometric shards that challenged perception. Like his revolutionary Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso's work pulsed with intellectual complexity and emotional intensity, often bending perspective to mirror the chaos of the human experience. In contrast, Rousseau, known as Le Douanier, was a self-taught naïf who painted with a childlike simplicity, crafting flat, dreamlike jungle scenes. His style leaned on vivid colors and meticulous detail, exuding a serene, almost surreal innocence that ignored academic norms. Where Picasso dissected the world, Rousseau enchanted it, offering a whimsical escape to Picasso’s cerebral upheaval. Together, they highlight the era’s spectrum: innovation versus intuition, fragmentation versus fantasy. - BPJ

PABLO PICASSO

L'art en mouvement

 

HENRI ROUSSEAU

Au pays des rêves

L'Atelier des Lumières

38 rue Saint-Maur 75011

 

Ends June 29, 2025

 

 

Above: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Below: Henri (Le Douanier) Rousseau (1844 - 1910)

 

Weepy Wednesday

 

 

In the small garden of Paris' oldest church rain streams down the face of a bust of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso.

 

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"The New York Times called her 'a muse of Picasso' and the 'principal model for many of his so-called weeping women portraits in the late 30s and early 40s.'" - Dora Maar: how Picasso's weeping woman had the last laugh The Guardian 11/15/2019  

 

 

 

 

Calderesque

Plenty of time left to catch the Calder-Picasso exhibition.

Ends August 25, 2019

Musée National Picasso-Paris

Hôtel Salé

5 rue de Thorigny 75003 

Blue to pink

Pablo Picasso's pink period was an outgrowth of his more somber blue.

 "Picasso. Bleu et Rose"
 Ends January 6, 2019

Musée d'Orsay

Village des artistes

The artists who made Montmartre famous didn't just fade away. They left their mark in many ways and some, like Pablo Picasso, left descendants. On Monday, a peek into some of the ateliers of today's working artists, our neighbors, our friends.

Above: graffiti on the side of former studio-residence of painter Gen Paul, born on rue Lepic and considered a precursor to the abstract expressionists of the 1950s

True art

Irving Penn exhibition ends today

Grand Palais 

3 avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008

Above: Portraits

- Pablo Picasso 1957 -

- Salvador Dali 1947 -

A casual lunch

Café Les Deux Magots, still one of the best spots in Paris for a casual lunch with a unique old Paris atmosphere. Inside, photos of Hemingway, Picasso, Simone de Beauvoir and other luminaries hang above tables where they regularly connived.