Program Museum 4k

While the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the cuneiform of Babylon have disappeared, Chinese calligraphy, also graphic and non-alphabetic, has endured through the ages. Of divinatory origin, Chinese characters carry not only a language but a unique way of thinking. A 84th-generation descendant of one of Confucius’s best-known disciples, calligrapher Yan Gongda unrolls before our camera the timeless story of a writing art closer to painting than graphology. Through this story, the entire history of China is told.

She was born in 1935 in a small village in the north of France, in Quiévy, and moved permanently to Paris in the 1960s. Working since 1972 in her studio in the 15th arrondissement, Geneviève Claisse has become one of the leading exponents of geometric abstraction in France.

Origami is about the art of paper folding, a Japanese and Chinese millenary tradition. In modern usage, the word “origami” is used as an inclusive term for all paper folding, regardless of their cultural origin. Different folding and sculpting techniques, new models, bright colors – you’ll see all of this in our program! We will teach you how to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a finished sculpture – from simple to complex!

An art genre which has existed since antiquity, still-lifes became popular again in 17th century European painting. Depicting inanimate objects, compositions might be confined to a meal on a table, as in Lubin’s frugal “Still-Life with Water Biscuits”, or portray hunted animals as in the “Still-Life with Pheasant” by Jean-Baptiste Oudry. You will also find famous still-lifes by Chardin, Cézanne and Van Gogh. Enjoy your visit!

This documentary travels to France to question the contours of Raw Art. Savine Faupin, curator of the department Art Brut at LAM, Matthew Morin, connoisseur and collector Christian Berst, owner of the eponymous gallery: each character tries to put his own definition of an art difficult to grasp. Indeed, Raw Art is constantly renewing itself, it is not limited by time or by the style and remains foremost vector emotional message.

In this episode, we will meet Isabelle Lesuisse, photographer. She is strongly influenced by architecture. Her photography work shows a taste for abstraction and graphics. She also works a lot with color, mainly in overprinting.

Maastricht, with its Roman, Spanish, French, Germanic and Dutch influences, is a city with an international culture. Gèr Boosten was born in this small Dutch port in 1947. He is a child of the post-war period who became an engraver, draftsman and painter, having exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries.

Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.

1 subject and 45 minutes to create! 4 artists confront each other in public and create an artwork based on a theme linked with a particular event.

Private Tour takes you to discover the exhibition "Picasso. Blue and Pink" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This is an exceptional event because it is the first exhibition in France dedicated to the artist's blue and pink period. This exhibition brings together about 300 works by the artist from 1900 to 1906, including "Woman with a Fan". During this period of his life, Picasso was between 18 and 25 years old and began to assert his artistic identity.

Today we meet Paella and Ludo Lebaron. Paella is a painter and street artist who works most of the time at Les Frigos, a place where artists, craftsmen and architects express themselves in Paris. Lebaron is a painter from the north. He has been practicing stencil art as a self-taught artist for a long time, and mixes text and image, the great poets of the past with our current social problems.

In this episode, we will meet Richard Bellia, photographer. He published a book called "An Eye on Music" in which he captured the faces of thousands of rock stars with his lens. He has photographed Kurt Cobain, Alain Bashung... He has covered the national and international music scene since the 1980s.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques

From the 17th century, Chinese objects dazzled the kings of France and found their way into the Versailles palace. Conversely, French tapestries and astronomical instruments enthralled Emperor Kangxi’s China. For centuries, this sumptuous furniture has been weaving a unique relationship between the two countries. Engendering fascination, imitation and transformation, these masterpieces have fueled a sustained conversation between the two cultures, following the evolution of morals and fashions. An exchange nurtured by emblematic and visionary figures, from Louis XIV to Charles de Gaulle, from Arcade Huang (interpreter of the Sun King) to Shen Fuzong, from Marie Antoinette to Victor Hugo. To coincide with an exhibition at the Palace Museum (Beijing), this film draws four centuries of artistic dialogue between East and West. Propelled into the heart of grandiose settings – the Château de Versailles, the Forbidden City, Jingdezhen (the “Porcelain Capital”) – we become privileged spec

Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.

Private Tour takes you to the discovery of the exhibition "Cubism" at the Centre Pompidou. This exhibition gathers more than 300 works and focuses on the history of this founding movement of the 20th century. We will start from the sources of cubism, by presenting what the artists saw and looked at to free themselves from all the academic conventions of this time. We will also see that music had a very important place in the works of this movement as in the work "Musical Instruments" by Georges Braque.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques