Be careful, these are the last moments to see them!
Take advantage of the holidays to discover these exhibitions which end at the Center Pompidou, the Louvre and the Maison de Victor Hugo.
Aillaud, the king of animals
Gilles Aillaud (1928-2005), still exhibited at the Center Pompidou (Paris 4th), is the great contemporary painter of wild animals.
A visionary, he guessed and painted before anyone else what old-fashioned zoos represented as imprisonment.
He knows how to convey in an admirable, very beautiful way the nobility of a lion in a cage, a panther on the prowl in its enclosure, the movement of a turtle, the swimming of a sea lion in a pool.
During a trip to Kenya, he painted freedom at last, these giraffes to infinity.
To see at all ages, for the precision of the drawing, the grace of the colors and this deep respect for the animal world.
“Gilles Aillaud, Political Animal”, Center Pompidou (Paris 4th), until February 26.
The history of Notre-Dame de Paris, a treasure
This is the opportunity or never to get acquainted with the history of Notre-Dame before its upcoming reopening.
The Louvre (Paris I) presents its “Treasure”, made up of works which will be presented in a museum adjoining the building.
This very accessible exhibition allows us to understand the thousand-year-old history of the cathedral, especially the lesser-known history from the Middle Ages to the Revolution, until its resurrection, led by the architect Viollet-le-Duc, in the 19th century, at through 120 pieces, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts…
“The Treasure of Notre Dame de Paris”, Louvre (Paris I), until February 19.
Georges Hugo, the great grandson
First, you have to go with your family to the Maison de Victor Hugo on the Place des Vosges (Paris 4th) to discover that the author of “Les Miserables” is a wonderful decorator, eccentric in his tastes, who transformed his house into flying carpet to the imagination.
And take the opportunity to enjoy the exhibition “Georges Hugo, the art of being a grandson”.
Victor, his grandfather, raised Georges, who lost his father when he was very young, and would become a talented designer and painter, as well as a portraitist of his family, a landscaper, an incredible reporter on the war of 1914-1918, engaged in the trenches, and a great traveler in watercolor as far as Iceland.
Delicious.
“Georges Hugo: the Art of being a grandson”, Maison de Victor Hugo (Paris 4th), until March 10.