THE SOURCES OF ABORIGINE PAINTING at Musée du Quai Branly
  • 14
  • Jan
  • 2013

Until 20/01/2013 . I tried to persuade one of our friends to visit this exhibition because he’s using the aborigine art as an inspiration for his photographic work. I hope he will get there before closing time .

“The exhibition presents for the first time in Europe a major artistic movement, born in 1971-1972 in the community of Papunya, at the heart of the central Australian desert.

By transposing to recycled wooden panels the motifs employed in ephemeral ritual paintings, the Aborigine artists of Papunya created an astonishingly inventive formal art, saturated with meaning. These works change the manner of understanding the territory and conceiving the history of Australian art.

With more than 160 canvases and almost 100 objects and photographs from the period, the exhibition presents the iconographical and spiritual sources of the Papunya movement and traces its development from the first panels to the large canvases of the early 1980s.”  extract from the site musée du Quai Branly

Emu Dreaming (Rêve d’émeu), Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra (Pintupi), 1972. 

Charming picnic places – 2
  • 28
  • Jul
  • 2012

3/ EPICERIE GENERALE AND PONT DES ARTS

At this typical French épicerie you can buy all good. They also offer ready-made picnic baskets with bread, cheese, vegetables and wine.

Epicerie Générale, 43, Rue de Verneuil, 75007 Paris

4/ BOB’s JUICE AND CANAL SAINT-MARTIN

Bob did open his smoothie bar three years ago. Here you can grab some biological or vegetarian goodies and have a seat near the canal.

Bob’s juice, 15, Rue Lucien-Sampaix, 75010 Paris

5/ PINK-NIK DU PINK FLAMINGO AND JARDIN DES FRANCS-BOURGEOIS

A cute pizzeria with a special service. You orde your favourite pizza, grab a pink balloon and have a seat nearby at the garden. A pizza boy will bring you your hot pizza.

Pink Flamingo, 105, Rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris

Charming picnic places
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  • Jul
  • 2012

At www.standaard.be I found some charming picnic places for the summerseason :

1/ LE MARCHE DES ENFANTS ROUGES AND SQUARE DU TEMPLE

One of the oldest markets of Paris gives you the opportunity to buy international food from over the world. When you found your taste, head for the charming Square du temple, where you’ll find nice spots to sit.

Le Marché des Enfants Rouges, 30, Rue de Bretagne, 75003 Paris

2/ ROSA BONHEUR AND BUTTES CHAUMONT

You can buy everything fresh : fruit, vegetables, bread, wine and have a seat on the stairs of Guingette Rosa Bonheur.

Rosa Bonheur, Parc des Buttes Chaumont, 75019 Paris

 

Le “Dodo Manège” aux Jardin des Plantes
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  • Jun
  • 2012

“Where else but Paris can a kid ride on an extinct beast? On the “Dodo Manège” carousel in Paris’ Jardin des Plantes they can ride on not only a dodo or a triceratops, but also a horned turtle (tortue à cornes), a glyptodon, a thylacine, or a sivatherium. There are also a few non-extinct animals (panda, elephant, ostrich, gorilla) on this carousel concerned with the evolution of species.

The carousel is beautifully painted with a jungle scene and 12 individual vignettes (around its top) showing some fascinating animals like lemurs, pangolins, and armadillos, as well as scenes from the Jardin des Plantes itself.”(from itinerantprofessor.blogspot.com)

Twenty years ago Jean-Jacques Harel made this carousel for his 2 year old son. He is a photographer specialised in animals and worked for the Museum of Natural History, but he is also an expert on extincted animals.

The Jardin des Plantes,  57 rue Cuvier, 2 rue Buffon, 36 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, place Valhubert 75005 Paris.