MUSEUMS AND FILMS ON PAINTERS

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Do we grow in museums and with movies

The Pinacoteca de Brera is a national gallery of ancient and modern art, in the homonymous palace, in the heart of old Milan. A characteristic of what differentiates the Pinacoteca from other Italian museums is the presence of great masterpieces from different schools: Lombardy, Tuscany, Central Italy, Veneto, as well as important paintings from the Flemish school. There are works to admire (today) online like Il Bacio by Francesco Hayez and La Città che sale by Umberto Boccioni.

2. The Uffizi-Florence

The Uffizi Gallery is part of the Florentine museum complex called The Uffizi Galleries and includes, in addition to the aforementioned gallery, the Vasari corridor, the collections of Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens in Florence. These days, you can access the online guided tour to discover the wonders contained in the museum on the site of all the masterpieces, such as Primavera, Bacchus, artists ranging from Botticelli to Caravaggio.

3. Moma -New-York

The New York Museum of Modern Art allows you to admire an overview of its collections: MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art, is located in Manhattan, New York, and has often been considered the main modern museum in the world. You will have the honor of admiring the works of Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock from your sofa, to name a few.

4. The Louvre-Paris Museum

Closed since March 13 and until further notice, the most visited museum in the world offers some alternatives for art lovers. Like a virtual discovery of the treasures of Ancient Egypt or a walk in the Apollon gallery, failing to have access to the very popular Leonardo da Vinci exhibition.

centuries like Francisco Goya, Diego Velasquez, Hieronymous Bosch, or Albrecht Durer.

5. Archaeological Museum of Athens

Ancient Greece, sculpture and the worship of the gods can also be admired online on the NAM (National Archaelogical Museum) site. In addition to being the largest museum in Greece, it is also the richest in the world in terms of Hellenic art, as with the presence of the gold masks of Agamemnon, the famous head of Zeus or the sculpture of Aphrodite and Eros.

6.The Dalí Theater-Museum - Spain

Located in the Catalan town of Figueres in Spain, this place pays homage to the master of surrealism. The building, built from the remains of an old municipal theater, is a reflection of the artist's strangeness and excess. A real cabinet of life-size curiosities where the works of the painter unfurl at different stages of his life ... However, it will be necessary to dispense with the explanations associated during the virtual visit.

7. The Prado- Madrid Museum

The most important museum in Spain allows visitors to visit and appreciate works, artists and techniques in the vast online archives. It is therefore necessary to rediscover the most important works, of great painters of the 16th and 17th centuries.

8. The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul

Since late 2013, the MMCA has been honoring contemporary art around the world. On the menu of this cultural site located in Gwacheon (South Korea): three floors, 14,144 m2 of exhibition space and a multitude of facilities to discover.

And artist biopics

Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rodin and Camille Claudel… Here are five exciting films about these famous artists to (re) discover absolutely during this confinement. 1. Basquiat (1996)

Directed by Julian Schnabel, himself a painter and friend of Basquiat, this film offers a dive into the world of the first black artist to have made his mark in contemporary art and in the New York artistic milieu of the time through a gallery of well-tempered characters such as David Bowie (Andy Warhol), Courtney Love (Big Pink)…

2. Frida (2002)

In this biopic produced by Julie Taymor and adapted from the book by Hayden Herrera, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is interpreted by a Salma Hayek inhabited by her role. From her student life to her international renown, including her terrible accident and her marriage to the painter Diego Rivera, the film highlights the eventful life of this extraordinary woman.

3. Rodin (2017)

Shot by Jacques Doillon, the film takes place in 1880 when Auguste Rodin, camped by Vincent Lindon, finally receives his first commission from the State at 40: La Porte de L'Enfer. In addition to addressing the long creative process of the sculptor, this biopic also returns to his love story with one of his students, Camille Claudel, and their artistic complicity.

4. Camille Claudel (1988)

For those who would like to complete their knowledge of this mythical couple of artists, Bruno Nuytten's film focuses on the young Camille, played by Isabelle Adjani on the initiative of the project, and her devastating relationship with the sculptor, camped by Gérard Depardieu.

5. Pollock (2000)

This adaptation of the book by Steven Naifeh by Ed Harris is the fruit of the latter's fascination for the artist, even to the latter's fascination for the artist, even going so far as to practice painting to endorse himself the role. His experimentation process, his neuroses, his marriage to the painter Lee Krasner, his ill-assumed celebrity ... this biopic reveals all the facets of the master of action painting.

To see.....!!!!!