For the fourth consecutive year we continue the free painting workshops. Every Sunday morning at 10am, from February till June people of all ages, no matter their level of expertise are welcome to participate in our painting workshops. Young or old, the art of creating is a joyous, exciting process, and we try to provide the room, space, and materials for that to happen. Everyone is given the opportunity to receive instruction as they create drawings and paintings of all media with the subject matter of their choice. (Attention! Due to the limited available space and high demand, interested participants must apply before the end of January.
A collaboration with the “National Gallery of Art” in Washington. The collection is comprised of extraordinary paintings, considered to be the jewels of one of the finest collections of French Impressionism in the world. This exhibition features 68 intimately scaled paintings by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters, including Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh, among others.
Suliann Ben Hamed, researcher in CNRS, Université Lyon 1 and Sophie Onimus-Carrias, cultural heritage curator. How does light help and inspire artists to create visual stories about places, moments, or experiences? What happens inside people’s brains when they admire art? Do all people perceive the same thing when they look at a painting or a photograph? Suliann Ben Hamed and Sophie Onimus-Carriaswill explore the science and art behind seeing, perceiving, and the importance of our cultural background and education in the way we perceive a work of art.
Loving Vincent is a 2017 biographical animated drama film about the life of van Gogh, and in particular, the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film. The film-makers chose to use 115 classically trained painters over traditional animators. Each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as van Gogh. Written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman. It was awarded Best Animated Feature Film Award at the 30th European Film Awards in Berlin.
Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky sheds new light on the extraordinary response of artists in Germany and France to key developments in modern art in the early 20th century. For the first time in a major museum exhibition, Expressionism is presented as an international movement in which artists responded with various aesthetic approaches to the work of modern masters such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, and Paul Gauguin.
