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Hotel des Academies et des Arts is located between Saint Germain des Pres and Montparnasse. Here is some info about this first area.

This one-time Saint Germain des Pres is located on the Left Bank, across the Seine from the Tuileries.  It runs along the southern shore of the Seine, in the 7th and 6th arrondissements, and consists of the area east of boulevard St-Michel as far as to include the Musée d’Orsay.  It stretches some 4 to 5 blocks to the south, including boulevard Saint Germain des Pres and several blocks to its south.

It is bordered on the north by the Seine, to the east by the Invalides and Tour Eiffel Quarter, to the south by the Luxembourg Quarter and to the west by the Latin Quarter.  The intellectual center of gravity, of this quartier of bistros, bookshops, coffee-houses, galleries, nightclubs and publishing houses, is at the intersection of rue Bonaparte and boulevard St-Germain.  This is the location of the Café Les Deux Magots (frequented by the writers of the “Lost Generation” of the 20s and 30s, and by the post World War II Existentialists), the Café de Flore and the Brasserie Lipp.

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La Galerie Art Montparnasse situé dans le 14e arrondissement à Paris expose actuellement Vladimir Stan et ses oeuvres récentes, du 29 février au 29 mars 2008.

Vladimir Stan, peintre est né le 29 février 1948 à Sofia, en Bulgarie. Diplômé des Beaux Arts de Sofia en 1975, il quitte la Bulgarie en 1986 et vient s’installer à Paris comme réfugié politique. Actuellement, il vit et travaille à Montparnasse. L’univers poétique de l’artiste, lié avec un sentiment d’isolement, danse dans les couleurs de ses pastels et huiles, évoquant aussi ses souvenirs avec une forte présence de toutes les gammes d’un bleu qui n’existe nulle part, et qui fait l’objet de recherches obsessionnelles du maître. Visages, souvent solitaires, silhouettes, nus, corps des amants enlacés errant dans l’espace, l’accompagnent dans sa recherche de la simplicité.

L’art a toujours été présent dans le quartier de Montparnasse, comme l’atteste La Grande Chaumiere et l’Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris, qui s’inscrit completement dans le cadre artisitique de Montparnasse.

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Here is what Cooper.edu says about Jerome Mesnager who invested with his art Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris.

“Strictly speaking, Jerome Mesnager – who usually does not sign his works -is not a pochoiriste because his images are drawn freehand. But Mesnager Us consistently-rendered figure is read in the same way as a stencil. His white ghost wanders the streets of Paris at night, climbing, resting, leaving its imprint on doors and walls. Mesnager’s white figure emerged from a meditation on light. By eliminating all colors and the canvas itself, he explains, the painter finds himself alone, and finds himself part of a living, internal canvas. “When I find the right door or wall, everything goes fast,” Mesnager says. “I jump against the wall in the pose I want to represent and I paint very fast. It takes 26 seconds.”

Mesnager chooses his sites with precision and, like most Parisian wall artists, he finds the oldest surfaces the most inviting: the catacombs, the ancient stone facades, walls that look as if they came from the original quarries from which the city was built. “More and more I find debris interesting,” he says. “It has color and an atmosphere that carries emotion.”

His white figure has been seen as far from Paris as the Great Wall of China and lurking near the pyramids of Egypt. “The little white man wanders/He is a luminous ghost/He haunts deserted places – from a 1989 poem by Mesnager.”

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Noguchi Isamu and the Hotel des Academies et des Arts are closely linked.

Noguchi Isamu (November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known widely for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets.Among his furniture work was his collaboration with the Herman Miller company in 1948 when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture. His work lives on around the world and at the The Noguchi Museum in New York City.

Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles, the illegitimate son of Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet who had gained great acclaim in the United States, and Leonie Gilmour, an American writer who edited much of his work.

Noguchi arrived in Paris in April 1927 and soon afterward met the American author Robert McAlmon, who brought him to Brancusi’s studio for an introduction. Despite a language barrier between the two artists (Noguchi barely spoke French, and Brancusi did not speak English), Noguchi was taken in as Brancusi’s assistant for the next seven months. During this time, Noguchi gained his footing in stone sculpture, a medium with which he was unacquainted, though he would later admit that one of Brancusi’s greatest teachings was to appreciate “the value of the moment.” Meanwhile, Noguchi found himself in good company in France, with letters of introduction from Michio Itō helping him to meet such artists as Jules Pascin and Alexander Calder.

Noguchi went to the prestigious school of Academy de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, right accross the street of Hotel des Academies et des Arts. It is even said that Noguchi Isamu stayed at the Hotel des Academies et des Arts few nights.

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Sophie de Watrigant a contribué au succès de l’Hotel artisitique des Academies et des Arts Paris. Nous vous la présentons.

Sophie de Watrigant débute ses études artistiques à l’Académie de la Grande Chaumière située exactement face à l’Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris. Etonnant retour à ce lieu, où elle vécut des moments intenses à dessiner.
Après une période plutôt consacrée à sa famille, elle se replonge dans le dessin et la peinture à l’huile dans un atelier de Neuilly avec des modèles de nus. Son sujet favori – le corps et le mouvement. Elle continue dans cette voie avec comme médium la sculpture et le travail de la terre.

Après trois ans, elle rejoint un groupe de dix femmes passionnées d’art. Les premières expositions débutent. L’émulation se crée, avec l’idée de représenter des échelles comme partie intégrante des sculptures.
Sophie de Watrigant conçoit les échelles comme des supports permettant à la fois le nu, le mouvement – symbole de cette longue avancée dans l’existence…

Pendant six ans, accompagnée de son groupe de femmes artistes, elle investit le sous- sol d’une chapelle avenue du Roule à Neuilly Sur Seine et les expositions se multiplient : deux fois en Touraine, autour de Paris, à Bercy, au Parlement Européen à Bruxelles et la dernière à l’Orangerie du Sénat, sans oublier en Floride, dans un musée privé.

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The Académie de la Grande Chaumiere – academy of the large thatched cottage -  is an art school located at 14 rue de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, near Hotel des Academies et des Arts. It offers full courses, but also a unique “one-sketch admission” service, for which one pays to draw nude models.

At the turn of the 20th century, it was one of the most famous art schools in Paris.
Former students who have probably stayed at Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris : Tamara de Lempicka, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Miller, Amedeo Modigliani, Isamu Noguchi, Nat Mayer Shapiro.

In the legendary neighborhood of Montparnasse, the most celebrated painters and the most secretive amateurs came to the Grande Chaumiere and the Hotel des Academies et des Arts to sit in the huge and somewhat mysterious rooms in the Academy free to practice their timeless art: life drawing, the nude, sketch …

How was Montparnasse at the beginning of the 20th century? The heart of art with the Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris. The Academie de la France Chaumiere is the only institution which at the beginning of the last century opened the way towards independant art leaving all forms of technics to be expressed freely.

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Hotel des Academies et des Arts is a friendly and comfortable place for the reminiscent of the famous French artists living in the past centuries such as Amedeo Modigliani.
Modigliani was an Italian artist, practicing both painting and sculpture.
In 1906 Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde. In fact, his arrival at the epicentre of artistic experimentation, near Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris coincided with the arrival of two other foreigners who were also to leave their marks upon the art world: Gino Severini and Juan Gris.
When he first arrived in Paris, he wrote home regularly to his mother and he drank wine in moderation. He was at that time considered by those who knew him as a bit reserved, verging on the asocial. He is noted to have commented, upon meeting Picasso.
During his early years in Paris, Modigliani worked at a furious pace. He was constantly sketching, making as many as a hundred drawings a day. However, many of his works were lost – destroyed by him as inferior, left behind in his frequent changes of address, or given to girlfriends who did not keep them.
In May of 1919 he returned to Paris, where, with Hébuterne and their daughter, he rented an apartment in the rue de la Grande Chaumiere, near Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris. While there, both Jeanne Hébuterne and Amedeo Modigliani painted portraits of each other, and of themselves.
Modigliani died on January 24, 1920. There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montparnasse, near Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris. Hébuterne was taken to her parents’ home, where, inconsolable, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window two days after Modigliani’s death, killing herself and her unborn child. Modigliani was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetière de Bagneux near Paris, and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her body to be moved to rest beside Modigliani.

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Jérôme Mesnager, né en 1961, est un peintre français.
En 1974 il entre à l’école Boulle, dont il sort au bout de 4 ans. Avec son diplôme d’ébéniste, il fait des petits boulots, travaillant pour des artisans du faubourg Saint-Antoine, et dessinant place du Tertre, à Montmartre.
Il est l’un des fondateurs en 1982 de « Zig-Zag », un groupe d’une dizaine de très jeunes artistes en « zig-zag dans la jungle des villes » : ils avaient découvert la possibilité d’occuper la rue, en dessinant des graffitis, et aussi d’occuper brièvement, le temps d’une performance artistique, des usines désaffectées.
Le 16 janvier 1983 il invente l’Homme en blanc , « un symbole de lumière, de force et de paix ». Cette silhouette blanche appelée Corps blanc ou l’homme blanc, Jérôme Mesnager l’a reproduite à travers le monde entier, des murs de Paris à la muraille de Chine.
Jérôme Mesnager a investit l’HOTEL DES ACADEMIES ET DES ARTS PARIS. Charlotte Inchauspé a eu un véritable coup de foudre artistique à 10 ans pour Jérôme Mesnager lors d’une exposition dans un restaurant du 8ème arrondissement de Paris.

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