Cafe Four Cats, Gana Inn, Café Michelangelo, Hotel Timon Rocanda, Groneck Apartments, ......
The Barbizon School, the Spotted School, Gauguin, Picasso, Ramón Casas, Icalbe, Santiago Rucino and Miguel Utriero ......
Exterior view of the Round Pavilion Cafe.
You may wonder what this means. Don't worry, you might as well make a cup of hot tea and bask in the sun on a weekend afternoon, and everyone can use their imaginationMake a little game of "Lianlian" – each place is associated with one or more artists.
Picasso (center) and friends in front of the Café des Dotos in Paris, 1916 (and so on).
Not only cafes, but also taverns, studios, inns, farmsteads, art academies and even fishermen's towns have become landmark art destinations. Many years later, Monet still remembers the café gatherings he once had, with Manet, Cézanne, Zola and others in Parisian cafés – "nothing could be more interesting than these conversations, where their views are forever colliding".
Young Spanish poet Lorca (left) and painter Dalí.
Inspired by the recently published book Modernist Stars – Cafes, Taverns and Other Places of Inspiration, let's follow in the footsteps of the book and take a journey through the world of art and the amazing "creative gatherings" of the past.
Four Cats Cafe.
The Four Cats are based on the "Black Cats" of Montmartre, a cabaret located at 3 rue de Monttelle, in Barcelona's old Gothic district.
The name has been in use since the store opened in 1897It means "a handful of people". The funds that sponsored the opening of the store came from three artists of the time: Ramón Casas Icab, Santiago Rucino and Miguel Utrillo. But its fame is due to a closer relationship with a well-known and well-known artist.
Exterior view of the Four Cats Cafe.
This bar, inn and inn became the most famous meeting place in Barcelona during the modern periodThe most creative minds come together here around Pablo Picasso and Ramón Casas. Here they argue, each other's work, the world around them and beyond. Picasso first came in 1899Before he went on an adventure in Paris. In addition,The sculptors Julio González and Antonio Gaudí also used to pass the time here.
Menu cover of the Four Cats Cafe by Picasso.
The exhibition held at the time featured works by Ramon Piciot, Nonelli, Picasso, Carnasi, Ignacio Suloaga, Casanovas and Calles Casaguimas. It is worth noting that the suicide of Casagemas in 1901 due to a broken relationship became the subject of one of Picasso's famous early paintings, The Death of Casagemas. Jaime Sabathes (Picasso's lifelong friend) and others hold monthly meetings, Utrillo plays shadow puppet games, and puts on puppet shows directed by Julio.
Pablo Picasso, Interior of the Four Cats, 1899, oil on canvas
Groneck Apartments.
Punta Van is a municipality in the Fénistere department of Brittany, France, located landlocked, some distance from the mouth of the Awang River that flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Since the 50s of the 19th century, painters have often come to the small village of Punta VangI want to spend the summer in a place away from the city, with beautiful scenery, low prices, and unpolluted by tourism.
The Landscape of Punta Vantano, Randolph Caldecott, from Henry Blackburn, The People of Brittany: A Journey through the Art of Brittany, 1880, p. 102 of The Stars of Modernism.
At that time, there were three residences open to touristsOne of them is the Groneck apartment where Gauguin and his friends lived, which is especially cheap, half the price of a tourist hotel. Paul Gauguin arrived in Punta Van in July 1886Emile Bernard arrived later that summer. When the two met again two years later, the friendship was further cemented.
Gauguin would play piano, cello and even accordion in the Groneck apartment, and he was accustomed to and liked to make all kinds of noise. His aura was so strong that his followers and students would later have to eat alone in the apartment's dining room, lest his thunderous voice sway the conversation. He would wake up at 7 a.m., work in the morning and afternoon, make his pipe at 5 p.m., and borrow tobacco from someone from time to time.
Gauguin and his friends, p. 104 in Punta Vong's The Stars of Modernism.
Here Bernard showed Gauguin his "Pilgrimage to Punta Vongtawang", also known as "Breton Woman in the Meadow" (1888), which some believe inspired Gauguin to create "Visions After the Sermon" in the same year.
Emile Bernard, Punta Van as seen from the Forest of Love, 1892, Oil on canvas.
Paul Gauguin, "Visions After the Sermon", 1888, oil on canvas.
Gauguin, perfectly adapted to life in Brittany, claimed that he had found a new wildness that he loved and that he needed to express in his paintings. French artists Charles Feliger, Charles Laval, Emile Schuffenek, Ahman Seguin, the Dutchman Meyer de Hahn, the British artist Robert Bevan, the Irish painter Roderick O'Connor and the Polish painter Władysław Slavinsky all stayed with Gauguin at that time.
Paul Gauguin, Landscape of Pudu, 1890, Oil on canvas.
Gana Inn. Barbizon, the "village of painters", acquired its form of settlement as early as 1903It is also quite close to the forest of Fontainebleau, which attracts many artists. The fame and ideas of the Barbizon School later spread widely, especially in Boston, USA, where many painters traveled across the ocean to exchange between the two places.
In 1849, Miller also visited the area, where he lived in a peasant's house and set up his studio.
Modernism Shines on the Stars.
In 1834, the Gana Inn was opened, which was the most inexpensive and simple facilitiesMany artists simply painted on walls and furniture in exchange for room and board. From 1820 to 1870, all the artists lived on the second floor, and the walls were littered with traces of oil paint. Most of the artists who live at the inn are between 25 and 30 years old and often come here in the spring and stay there until autumn.
Gana Inn in Barbizon.
Important landscape painters of the 19th century, such as Henri Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, Charles François Dobigny, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, were here "in a hurry to paint nature".
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot painting outdoors, circa 1845-1875.
Barbizon in the forest of Fontainebleau, an artist's gathering place" illustration published in the Pictorial Magazine, September 1875.
When the painter and his party left the Ganna InnIt is common to pack a box of paints (or tubes of paint) in your backpack, a folding stool with picnic food in your pocket, and of course a parasol and two canvases: one for the morning light, and one for the afternoon with very different light in order to better trace the rocks and trees.
Jean-Baptiste Camille, Corot, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1834, Oil on canvas.
Theodor Rousseau, Barbizon Landscape, circa 1850, Oil on canvas.
Jean-Baptiste Camille, Corot, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1846, Oil on canvas.
Because everyone is happy to live in the innNot only can it be convenient to get together to discuss the practical details of "buying paint in **", but you can also go boating in the river together and play games indoors and outdoors. At lunchtime, they would throw the parasol handle at the bottle like a javelin; Before dinner, they would set up a row of empty bottles, leaving only narrow aisles for people to jump through. After the dessert, each artist pulls out a new painting drawn during the day for criticism and possibly a sketch on the wall for later more mature works. After that, they slept in the thyme-smoked bedding.
Painting on the wall of the Gana Inn.
Café Michelangelo.
Florence – "The Athens of Italy", where many European and American artists were exiled, has been fascinated by many artists for centuries and whose stories have been told. Artists of different genres have their own preferences for where to gather. Café Michelangelo is one of them.
A group of children painting a man on the street, 50s of the 20th century.
Gathered here were the painters of the Spotted School. Macchia is also known as "pointillists" (macchia means spot or spot, and this school is named after their painting technique). This group included American artists Eli Hugh Wade and Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, who was also a member of the Hudson River School.
The Scarlet School at Café Michelangelo, circa 1900-1903.
Giuseppe, Abbati, Prayer, 1866, 57, 42cm
Rocanda Monti Hotel.
Until the 90s of the 20th century, artists still paid the bills of Rocanda Monti through their works. Years ago, Venetian painters gathered here to argue over an idea at dinner the day before, or to worry about the material, to discuss the availability of a particular color, and even to complain that some painters had replaced oil paints with acrylic paints.
Hotels and restaurants in Rocanda Monti.
Among them,Fred Daniels and Ruberto Ferrucci were frequent visitors in the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century. To this day, there are still a variety of paintings here. Some are clearly modern works, others are classical paintings; There are **graffiti, and there are serious works; There are landscapes, and there are portraits. There are also works by the two artists mentioned above, watercolor and oil painting.
The interior is filled with all kinds of paintings.
John Singer Sargent, "Cloudy Venice", circa 1880-1882, oil on canvas.