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Gustave Caillebotte: Paris Street, Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte: Paris Street, Rainy Day

This complex intersection, just minutes away from the Saint-Lazare train station, represents in microcosm the changing urban milieu of late nineteenth-century Paris. Gustave Caillebotte grew up near this district when it was a relatively unsettled hill with narrow, crooked streets. Paris Street, Rainy Day is considered the artist´s masterpiece, Caillebotte strikingly captured a vast, stark modernity, complete with life-size figures strolling in the foreground and wearing the latest fashions. This artwork is now in the Art Institute of Chicago Building.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Paul Cézanne: Pierrot and Harlequin (Mardi Gras)

Paul Cézanne: Pierrot and Harlequin (Mardi Gras)

Pierrot and Harlequin, owned by the Pushkin Museum in Russia, is one of Cézanne’s most famous pictures. Its French name Mardi Gras reminds us of the last day in the Shrovetide festival. The traditional characters of the Italian commedia dell’arte act out in front of spectators the eternal conflict of two different temperaments. The melancholy reverie of Pierrot, whose fragile white figure seems to be made of plaster, contrasts with the confident, agile stride of Harlequin. It is the only example of Cézanne tackling this type of subject, yet his innovatory philosophical treatment greatly influenced subsequent generations of artists.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Paul Cézanne: Woman in Blue

Paul Cézanne: Woman in Blue

Several of Impressionist portraits by Cézanne which were painted during the 1890s and early 1900s are distinctive for the slightly strained pose of the sitter, and for the oval-like arrangement of the hands, which impart more stability and significance to the figure painting despite the everyday clothes and unassuming features of the sitter. Woman in Blue is located in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Paul Cézanne: Self Portrait

Paul Cézanne: Self Portrait

Cézanne’s Self-Portrait is full of inner tension. In front of us is a man with a strong jutting chin, the bold expression of a sage and a high, bulging, domed forehead. The artist deliberately stresses the spherical shape of the head and the strict lines of the nose and eyebrows, as if trying to make the representation resemble an ancient Eastern relief. In the face he searches for features to demonstrate the superiority of structure over imagery, an idea that became the leitmotif of all his art. This masterpiece is now located in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Paul Cézanne: Still Life with Apples and Biscuits

Paul Cézanne: Still Life with Apples and Biscuits

Owned by the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, this painting was produced in 1880 and blogs to the period the still life genre began to occupy an essential place in the work of Cézanne. This masterpiece is one of the most important still life produced by the artist.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

The Posters of Toulouse-Lautrec

The Posters of Toulouse-Lautrec

The Post-Impressionist French painter, printmaker, caricaturist and illustrator Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec moved in the celebrity circles of 19th-century Bohemian Paris. Hugely influenced by the flamboyant, vibrant, eclectic, free-spirited, debauched lifestyle of the time, his work was known for its provocative nature, highlighting Paris´s colourful nightlife, stripping away the glamour to bring the Parisian underworld to life. This movie examines Toulouse-Lautrec’s work as a printmaker and shines a light on the celebrated stars of the stage, and the styles and fashions of the time. His work features Paris´s most popular cafés, cabarets, and entertainers including stage star Yvette Guilbert and famous dancers like Jane Avril and Loïe Fuller.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Manet, Monet, Renoir - Painting on the Seine at Argenteuil

Manet, Monet, Renoir - Painting on the Seine at Argenteuil

This movie shows a set of different paintings from Édouard Manet, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir about the same subject: the Seine at Argenteuil. It shows Argenteuil by Manet that is now located in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium and Monet in his Floating Studio now in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Germany; from Monet, it shows Regatta at Argenteuil that is now in the Musée d´Orsay in Paris and from Renoir The Seine at Argenteuil now in the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, USA.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

John Singer Sargent: In the Luxembourg Gardens

John Singer Sargent: In the Luxembourg Gardens

Like many of his contemporaries, the American John Singer Sargent lived in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1870s, near the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Palais du Luxembourg, which had one of the largest parks on the Left Bank, newly laid out with formal gardens, fountains, and sculpture. In this twilight scene by Sargent, a vast expanse of gravel, tinted mauve by the setting sun, isolates a fashionably dressed couple walking arm in arm. Preoccupied by holding up her skirt and clutching her companion’s arm, the woman seems distracted, while the man dispassionately smokes a cigarette. The detachment of the couple is echoed by other figures in the garden, all absorbed in their own activities: sitting on a bench, reading a newspaper, or playing with a toy sailboat. This artwork is now located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Dancing at the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Dancing at the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, caricaturist and illustrator, he belongs to the Post-Impressionist period. At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance is one of his most famous works and is now located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Claude Monet: Poplars by the River

Claude Monet: Poplars by the River

Oscar-Claude Monet was one of the founder of French Impressionist painting. Famous for his landscape paintings, Monet painted the two artworks shown in this movie: Poplars on the Banks of the River Epte and Poplars, both in the 1891. Those two masterpieces are now located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, USA.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Felix Edouard Vallotton: The Balloon

Felix Edouard Vallotton: The Balloon

The Balloon (or The Ball) is one of the best known paintings by Félix Vallotton, a Swiss painter who was in close touch with the Nabis from 1891. This bird’s-eye view figures a park or public garden, places often painted by Bonnard or Vuillard. Against the broad ochre stretch of ground and the deep shade of the trees, pierced by a pale area, the running child makes a bright splash of light preceded by a dark shadow. This masterpiece is now located in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

St. Petersburg in Russian Paintings - Various Artists

St. Petersburg in Russian Paintings - Various Artists

A set from various artists of the city of St. Petersburg in Russian paintings. From Vasil Semenovich Sadovnikov, Paul Marie Roussel, Fedor Aleksandrovich Vasiliev to Ferdinand Victor Perrot; all the paintings shown in this movie are located in various galleries and museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Ilya Repin: Painters, Writers and Musicians

Ilya Repin: Painters, Writers and Musicians

Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Russian realist painter and also the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th Century. In this movie, some of the characters shown in his paintings: painters, writers, musicians. Located in different galleries and museums in Moscow and Samara in Russia, those paintings show the method of the artist to paint, that was the reverse of the general approach of impressionism. He produced works slowly and carefully. They were the result of close and detailed study.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Interiors in 19th Century Russia - Various Artists

Interiors in 19th Century Russia - Various Artists

This movie shows the beauty of Russian interiors in 19th Century through a comparison between various artists: Fedor Petrovich Tolstoy, S. Sollogub, Luigi Premazzi, Pyotr Ivanovich Neradovski, Prokophy Egorovich Pushkaryev, Kapiton Selentsov, Kapiton Alekseevich Zelentsov, Aleksei Alekseevich, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov and Alexander Alexeyevich Alexeyev. All the paintings shown in this movie are located in different galleries and Museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Poverty and Labour in Russian Paintings

Poverty and Labour in Russian Paintings

Poverty and Labour in Russian Paintings showed by the comparison between two different Russian artists: Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky with his Repairing the Railway located in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia and Nikolaj Alekseevich Kasatkin with his Poor People Gathering Coal at an Exhausted Mine now located in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Portraits of Russian Women in Traditional Clothing - Various Artists

Portraits of Russian Women in Traditional Clothing - Various Artists

This movie shows a comparison of different paintings depict Russian Women in traditional clothing from various artists: Paesant Woman in Russian Costume by Ivan Petrovich Argunov that is now in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia; Portrait of a Cossak Woman by Vasilij Ivanovic Surikov now located in the Krasnoyarskiy Kraevoy Musey in Krasnoyarsk; Portrait of a Young Girl in Sarafan and Kokoshnik by Mauro Gandolfi located in the Museum of Tropinin and His Contemporaries in Moscow and Woman in Old Russian Dress by Ivan Semyonovich Kulikov owned by the Regional Museum of History and Art in Murom, Russia.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Daily Life in Russian Paintings: The Couple - Various Artists

Daily Life in Russian Paintings: The Couple - Various Artists

In this movie, a comparison from various artists about daily life in Russian paintings: Rural Love by Jules Bastien-Lepage that is now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia; In the Boat and Before the Wedding by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin located now in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and in the Museum of Art in Serpukhov; At the Altar painted by Firs Sergeevich Zhuralev, Talk at the Spinning Wheel by Vasil’ev Mikhail Nikolaevich, Making Jam by Vladimir Egorovic Makovsky and Morning in a Porter’s Lodge by Kirill Vikentevich Lemokh, all located now in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Georges Seurat: Bathers at Asniéres

Georges Seurat: Bathers at Asniéres

Located now in the National Gallery of London, this large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it to be a grand statement with which he would make his mark at the official Salon in the spring of 1884. It shows several men and boys relaxing in the sun on the banks of the Seine, between the bridges at Asnières and Courbevoie, north-west of central Paris. In the background is a railway bridge that partly hides a parallel road bridge, as well as the chimneys of the gas plant and factories at Clichy, where some of the men may work. Recreational sailboats can be seen on the river.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Paul Cézanne: Portraits of his Wife

Paul Cézanne: Portraits of his Wife

Paul Cézanne, a French Post-Impressionist artist, painted several versions of his wife portrait around 1890. In this movie, The Artist’s Wife in an Armchair that is now in the Buhrle Collection in Zurich, Switzerland; Portrait of Madame Cézanne owned by the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, France; Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory, located in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA and Portrait of the Artist’s Wife that is now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm in Sweden.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Robert Rauschenberg: Night Shades and Phantoms

Robert Rauschenberg: Night Shades and Phantoms

Exhibition Making-of

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

The Garage Museum

The Garage Museum

Teaser of the Museum

Duration : 0s
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James Turrell at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

James Turrell at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

James Turrell and Richard Andrews talk about James Turrell’s work and his exhibition.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Opening of Garage’s new building in Gorky Park

Opening of Garage’s new building in Gorky Park

Founded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich, Garage is the first philanthropic institution in Russia to create a comprehensive public mandate for contemporary art. On May 1, 2014, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture changed its name to Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, reflecting the co-founders’ commitment to providing long-term public access to living artists and art histories. On June 12, 2015, the museum moved to its first permanent home in Gorky Park, in the heart of Moscow.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Taryn Simon at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Taryn Simon at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Continuing a collaboration that began three years ago between the acclaimed American artist Taryn Simon and the Garage Museum in Moscow, for the first time in her career Simon will also be working live to develop a new piece over the duration of the exhibition, providing audiences with unprecedented access to her singular research processes.

Duration : 1h 8m
Maturity Level : all