The new exhibition “Le siècle du jazz� (The Jazz century) from March 17th to June 28th at the Quai Branly Museum.
The Quai Branly Museum in the 7th arrondissement near your location paris offers a new exhibition devoted to jazz and its influence throughout 20th Century art and society, you’ll discover all the history of jazz through paintings, literature, audiovisual sources, posters, photography, and cinema. The aim of the organizer Daniel Soutif is “to show how jazz has contaminated paintings, but also photography, cinema, graphics, comics.� The exhibition is organized chronologically to track the major events in the history of jazz: from its official birth in 1917 through the bebop revolution after the war, the West Coast trend, the freejazz …
You can admire a portrait of Ella Fitzgerald designed by Andy Warhol, Josephine Baker to the ball Negro by van Dongen .. and you can listen once more to the famous Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong … A few steps away from your location appartement paris, from 13th until 24th of May, a selection of 15 films and documentaries about jazz will be shown in the Quai Branly Museum. The huge collection of paintings also illustrates the fascination of artists in jazz, music of freedom, and affirmation of identity and aesthetics. Fernand Léger, Dubuffet, Kupka, Picabia, Nicolas de Staël … have all been inspired by jazz music in their creations. “Jackson Pollock painted exclusively listening to Dixieland. And the painting of Mondrian was deeply influenced by the boogie-woogie,� confirms Daniel Soutif.
The “Jazz century exhibition� will have you travelling throughout the history of jazz, which revolutionised the world of arts and society in the 20th century, so get out from your location paris to discover one of the best exhibitions in Paris.
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From March 17th to June 28th 2009
Quai Branly Museum
51 Quai Branly