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MUSÉE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE – CENTRE POMPIDOU

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Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004Paris, France
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2024
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2024

The National Modern Museum located in Paris presents personal objects of Renzo Piano, with tools, with discovery

The museum is located on the4th and5th levels of the Centre Pompidou, with a floor space of 12,210 m². The museum's collection of 120,000 works is the largest in Europe, and the second largest in the world after MoMA in New York. Fifteen hundred to two thousand works from this collection are exhibited on a rotating basis. The presentation is chronological, allowing you to better understand the evolution of the visual arts over the last hundred years. Monographic and thematic rooms alternate to make the visit even more captivating. Level 5 of the center features works dating from 1905 to 1960. Level 4 picks up the thread and ends with contemporary art. This collection is constantly being enriched to keep pace with developments on the contemporary scene. On these floors, you'll find access to the halls hosting major temporary exhibitions that regularly explore a theme linked to the history of modern art or the work of a particular artist. Consult the program on the website. Last but not least, three terraces extend the museum's space, featuring imposing sculptures by Henri Laurens, Joan Miro and Alexandre Calder. A visit to the museum is almost mind-boggling, with so many masterpieces by painters and sculptors who have changed the way we look at the world. All the major currents and movements are represented: Fauvism (Derain, Matisse, Vlaminck, Dufy, Van Dongen, Rouault...), Cubism (Braque, Picasso, Léger, Gris, Gleizes...), Dadaism and Surrealism (Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Magritte, Dali...), Futurism (Boccarelli, Baudelaire...).), Futurism (Boccioni, Russolo, Magnelli...), Expressionism (Kirchner, Kokoschka, Dix...), the Paris School (Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine...), the various trends in abstract art (Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevitch, Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, Hartung, Soulages, Zao Wou Ki....), art brut or informel (Fautrier, Dubuffet, Tàpies, Chaissac...), Nouveau Réalisme (Arman, Klein, Tinguely de Saint-Phalle, César...), Pop Art (Warhol, Rauschenberg, Johns...), Fluxus (Beuys, Paik, Filliou, Ben...), Minimalism (Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevitch, Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, Hartung, Soulages, Zao Wou Ki...)....), minimalism (LeWitt, Serra, Stella, Buren, Morellet...), Arte Povera (Manzoni, Penone, Kounellis, Pistoletto...), narrative figuration (Adami, Cueco, Erro, Fromanger, Rancillac...)... It's impossible to mention them all! In addition to these artists, who often moved from one movement to another in the course of their career, we must also mention individuals as diverse as Rousseau, Signac, Delaunay, Klee, Giacometti, Arp, Rivera, Kahlo, Bourgeois, Bacon... These treasures are complemented by pieces illustrating the history of architecture and design during the same period (Le Corbusier, Mallet-Stevens, Prouvé, Loewy, Paulin, Garouste & Bonetti, Starck, Nouvel, de Portzamparc...). We'd now like to mention a few VIPs, or Very Important Pieces, as the museum likes to call them. In fact, you'll find a new itinerary featuring them, taking you on a journey of discovery of some of the most emblematic works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. An interesting series of podcasts dedicated to these works is also available on the website, providing you with a wealth of information. Tip: to check in advance whether a painting is actually on display in the museum on the day of your visit (the reserves are gigantic and the collection is frequently renewed!), don't hesitate to consult the interactive map updated on the website. Among the museum's VIPs is the famous "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp (1917/1964). Founder of the ready-made, Duchamp claimed that any object could be a work of art if the artist chose it. With a certain provocation, he decided to exhibit a urinal. Initially rejected by a New York salon, this work is now one of the most emblematic by the artist, who undoubtedly had a major influence on twentieth-century art. Other must-sees, or VIPs, include Vassily Kandinsky's "Mit dem schwarzen Bogen (With the Black Bow)", Henri Matisse's "La blouse roumaine", Marc Chagall's "Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel", Frida Kahlo's "The frame", Piet Mondrian's "New York City" and Fernand Léger's "Les Loisirs-Hommage à Louis David", "Triptych Bleu I, Bleu II, Bleu III" by Joan Miró, "SE 71, L'Arbre, grande éponge bleue" by Yves Klein, "Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden" by Otto Dix, "Le jardin d'hiver" by Jean Dubuffet and "Precious Liquids" by Louise Bourgeois. The list goes on and on, so we advise you to allow at least half a day for your visit to the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou. Finally, if you'd like to extend your visit, you'll also find the interesting Atelier Brancusi on the forecourt of the Centre. It recreates the last workplace of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). This installation, designed by Renzo Piano, allows you to view works of art, as well as the artist's tools and personal belongings, from a small enclosed garden, through picture windows, after discovering one of his landmark creations, exhibited in the museum: "Phoque II", from 1943.


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kro25
Visited in august 2021
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Une oeuvre d art contemporain en lui même avec ses tuyaux multicolores d un côté et ses escalators vitrés de l autre.
Vous pouvez monter sans forcement visiter, juste pour tester les escalators et avoir une autre point de vue sur Paris. Vous pourrez même prendre un bain de soleil sur la terrasse.
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Visited in march 2022
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Incontournable
Avec son architecture futuriste, ses expos temporaires toujours renouvelées et sa vue magnifique de la terrasse, à ne pas manquer
J-ML
Visited in august 2021
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Centre Pompidou
Un bâtiment oeuvre d’art et un Musée à visiter. Actuellement une expo temporaire « Elles font l’abstraction » réellement intéressante. Une vue superbe sur tout Paris du 5e étage. A faire.
godzila182
Visited in november 2019
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superbe lieu
A la fois un musée,une oeuvre d'art,un super restaurant avec un gros point de vue.sans doute dans les cinq choses immanquables a paris.
Visited in february 2020
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Très moderne
Même si l'aspect extérieur commence à se faire un peu vieillot, c'est un véritable temple de l'art moderne.
Un bouillonnement de culture, avec une grande diversité d'expositions, d'atmosphères, très bien documentées, didactiques.
Les collections sont très novatrices.
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