Please see the Collage of photos I took during my last visit to Paris in May this year. But Chagall’s passion for the project won out.” “When French Minister of Culture André Malraux announced the commission for the project in 1960, many were outraged by the prospect of a modernist painter-and a foreign-born one, at that-taking his brush to the ceilings of Charles Garnier’s neo-Baroque masterpiece. After 89 years, in 1964, Marc Chagall’s ceiling was inaugurated.
I am very impressed not only by the architect’s bold and decorative style, but by the beautiful painting of Marc Chagall on the ceiling of the auditorium. . The theater was inaugurated in 1875. It is so beautiful that there is always a long line of tourists waiting to visit the theater. The architect was Charles Garnier whose bold and decorative style had made this theater his masterpiece. The Collage I want to highlight here is the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris. This classic style of ballet has remained an important and integral part of the ballet company.This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge As a former ballet dancer who comes from a family of professional ballet dancers, it was impressive that what is known today as “Classical ballet” arose with the Paris Opera Ballet. The Paris Opera has been the main opera and ballet company in France, which is still in production to this day. Although I do understand the contention, considering Chagall’s modernistic approach as compared to the original ornate and classical interior. Personally, I admired them but it is Marc Chagall, who was an early modernist, and I would not have expected anything different. When the ceiling was unveiled, the frescoes caused controversy and were widely contested. It is designed to be raised and lowered, originally to light the fixture and to clean it. Unlike in Phantom of the Opera, the chandelier did not fall during one of the performances. In 1964, the opera’s ceiling was renovated, and Chagall was commissioned with painting 2,400 square feet of frescoes. The ceiling painting in the auditorium of Palais Garnier by Marc Chagall done in 1964 in a style reflective of the time of its installation. And youll learn the story behind Marc Chagalls spectacular painted ceiling, controversial when it was first unveiled in 1964. There are also marvelous frescoes painted by one of my favorite French artists, Marc Chagall.
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