Two Day Feast of Art

LIZ SAYS:
We went to the Pompidou Centre yesterday and the day before to see a Calder and Kandinsky exhibition. The Kandinsky's were a revelation. I said to Dick before we entered the exhibit that I thought I'd seen most Kandinsky's and I didn't think it would take long to go through the show. Unlike all the pictures I had seen before, these were brilliant, vivid canvas, not sallow or dirty. He often used my favorite color of brilliant blue. The show was divided up into various cities he'd lived, it was brilliant.
Calder is always fun and this show had a circus. It had live videos of him playing with the circus, it just made my heart bounce like a baby in one of those bungee chairs. He had a little knife thrower. The first two knives missed, the third his the lady, then he pulled up a little stretcher with two men pulling it and took the lady away. Everything was made of wire and bits of ordinary things, all of them moved with just the pull of a finger. Charming.
There were wire three dimensional portraits, shown against a white wall, perfect presentation, you could see every possible angle and reality.


Today, we went to the Cartier Centre and I saw the work of a wonderful woman from South America, Beatriz Milhaze.
You must google this woman.
So much joy! Just fun!

What an inspirational feast! She had done an installation on the windows of the place as well. The center is all glass. It has a very low key garden behind a glass wall in front of the building and then the building itself is all glass.
It was a rainy day and the whole thing was glorious. She only had about 12 or so very large painting/collages.
The other show was photographs by some guy. They were very disappointing. There was no catalog for her but several for him. He was commissioned to do a year or so of photos in Paris. After her work, his looked fairly mediocre. He did a couple of really good ones, but basically, they were nothing to write home about, no pun intended.
So, I bought some pens, ink and paper. Plus, I’ve got a couple of ideas for photos. Paris is for artists!