Chapter 1373: The Birth of Fauvism
After leaving the Musée Guimet, Ye Tian and his family did not return to the Hotel Regina, but went to the Pompidou Cultural and Arts Center in the Latin Quarter of Paris!
The Centre Pompidou is a museum of modern art located on Bouquet Bouquet on the right bank of the Seine, nicknamed 'Bobourg' by Parisian locals.
Because of its postmodernist façade, which resembles a factory, this famous museum is also known as an 'oil refinery' or 'cultural factory'!
It is a very famous museum, one of the three great art treasures in Paris, the other two being the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay.
If the Louvre represents the ancient civilization of France, solemn and elegant, then the Pompidou Cultural and Arts Center is the symbol of modern Paris, fashionable and avant-garde!
Unlike most museums in Paris, the Centre Pompidou closes late, except on Tuesdays, when it closes until 9pm!
On Thursdays, the Centre Pompidou is open until 11 p.m., and today is Thursday!
Because of this, Ye Tian and the others will rush to this world-famous cultural and art center without worrying about eating behind closed doors or worrying about not having enough time to visit!
Approaching 7 o'clock, the group had already arrived at the Pompidou Cultural and Arts Center, and then bought tickets to enter this famous museum and began another artistic journey!
The Centre Pompidou is divided into four sections: the Centre for Industrial Design, the Public Information Library, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre for Music and Vocal Studies for adults to visit, study and research.
In addition, the cultural and art center has set up two children's playgrounds, one is a children's library with 20,000 children's paintings and calligraphy.
The other is the children's workshop, where children from 4 to 12 years old can learn to draw, dance, act, do crafts, etc.
The reason why Ye Tian came to the Pompidou Cultural Arts Center was completely for the Museum of Modern Art, and he was not interested in the other contents of the Pompidou Cultural and Arts Center!
Unlike the old art museums, the Musée Pompidou d'Art Modern focuses on the word 'modern' and is dedicated to the various plastic arts of the West since the twentieth century.
The artworks in this museum of modern art are representative works of all major modern art schools, which clearly and completely reflect the progress of modern art!
There are more than 2,000 works in various genres, including Fauvism, Cubism, Abstraction, Surrealism, Structuralism, Conceptual Art and Popular Art.
In addition to the large collection of modern art, this museum of modern art also presents its collections in a unique and modern way!
The museum has designed a main tour in chronological order!
On this route, according to the time of appearance, the representative works of each art school are lined up, and many small exhibition rooms are set up around it, introducing the works of a certain genre and a certain writer.
In this way, the audience can not only get an overview of modern Western art, but also conduct an in-depth study of a certain field of interest or writer.
In addition, there are shelves that can be lifted and moved, and works that have not been exhibited are hung!
At the touch of a button, the automatic shelves begin to move up and down, revealing the objects that the viewer wants to admire but are not on display.
Walking on this main route, every visitor who comes to visit the Pompidou Cultural and Arts Center has a feeling of walking on the road of modern art, which is very wonderful!
After entering the museum, Ye Tian and the others admired the huge postmodern style building, and walked quickly to the escalator, preparing to go straight to the Museum of Modern Art on the fourth floor.
As always, on the way, Ye Tian introduced Betty and her sisters to this world-famous cultural center.
In 1969, in honor of President Charles de Gaulle, who led France to defeat Hitler in World War II, then French President Georges Pompidou proposed the construction of a modern art museum.
This is how the Centre Pompidou came from, in 1974, before the completion of the cultural center, President Pompidou died of cancer, and the building was named the Centre Pompidou in its honor.
The Pompidou Cultural Centre is characterized by its exposed steel structure and complex pipelines, and this huge postmodern building has caused great controversy since its construction.
Compared to the traditional style of Paris, this building seems too avant-garde, even a bit deviant, and the people of Paris are generally unacceptable, but the art world has given great support!
Despite the controversy, the Centre Pompidou has attracted more than 150 million visitors over the decades since its opening, making it another famous landmark in Paris,......"
While speaking, Ye Tian and his party had already boarded the escalator, and soon disappeared from the hall on the first floor and went up to the second floor!
At the same time, there was a small wave in the hall on the first floor, and the voices of discussion rang out one after another, spreading to every corner!
"Why did Steven, this crazy guy come to the Pompidou Center? When I see this guy, I think of the scene when he dragged the body up to the bank of the Seine, it was horrible!
Looks like I'm going to have to change my plans and get out of the Centre Pompidou as soon as possible, away from the bastard Steven, and if I stay here, God knows what will happen next!"
"Obviously, this bastard Steven is here for the Museum of Modern Art on the fourth floor and those top artworks, but fortunately this is not an antique thrift market, so don't worry about being ransacked by him!"
On the other hand, the person in charge of the Pompidou Culture and Arts Center has also received the news and knows that Ye Tian has come here!
After learning the news, the person in charge immediately frowned and had a headache!
As for the danger of Ye Tian, all Parisians now know it.
Especially professionals in the field of antique art collection know it very well, and the person in charge of the Pompidou Cultural Center is certainly no exception!
Although he knew that Ye Tian was very dangerous and a well-known troublemaker, he couldn't issue an eviction order to drive Ye Tian and them out of the Pompidou Cultural Center!
All he could do was to tell his security guards to keep an eye on Ye Tian and them, not to leave an inch, and prevent them from causing trouble at the Pompidou Cultural and Arts Center!
Therefore, when Ye Tian and the others came to the Museum of Modern Art on the fourth floor, in addition to those Paris policemen in civilian clothes, there were a few more nervous tails behind them!
For this situation, Ye Tian and they have long been accustomed to it, and they are not surprised, they don't pay attention to it at all!
Using the perspective ability, Ye Tian instantly identified the identities of those security personnel, and after making sure that there was no danger, he immediately withdrew his gaze and ended the perspective!
Immediately afterwards, he walked into the first solo exhibition room of the Museum of Modern Art, the personal exhibition room of Henri Matisse, the famous French painter, the founder and main representative of Fauvism!
As he entered the room, he began to whisper to Betty about the room and the Fauvist master Matisse.
Fauvism, named after the 1905 Paris Salon d'Autom, caused an uproar when a group of avant-garde artists, led by Matisse, exhibited a series of works at the Salon.
Matisse and his paintings have been vividly described as 'a jar of paint in front of the public', while the famous French journalist Louis Wasser exclaimed, 'Donatello is in a beast cage!'.
Soon after, this quip appeared in the magazine Gil Blas, giving Fauvism its name and quickly gaining widespread recognition in the art world, and Fauvism began to flourish!
In the history of art, it is generally believed that Fauvism was born in 1905 as the beginning of modern art, and as the founder and representative of Fauvism, Matisse's personal exhibition room will appear here......"
While talking, Ye Tian and the others had entered the Matisse exhibition room, came to the closest painting to the door of the exhibition room, and began to appreciate this representative work of the Fauvist master Matisse!
In the following time, they were in this personal exhibition room, appreciating the unrestrained passion of the artist Matisse, feeling the frenzy of fauvism, and swimming in the ocean of art!
And this is just the beginning, there are Cubism, Abstraction, Surrealism, Structuralism and so on, as well as outstanding works by famous masters such as Kandinsky, Braque, Picasso, etc.!