The Sun is represented as a yellow thistle

In the British capital to Marseille via Paris, there are only a few days to visit several outstanding exhibitions. London, exposure time flagship closes on January 16. Dedicated to Gauguin, "maker of myth" ( .uk), is installed at the Tate Modern. The conditions are not optimal for sensuality, return to nature and to a certain primitivism of the master of Pont-Aven, because too many visitors find themselves agglutinated in tables. It prevents: discovering unknown and atypical work. "The loss of virginity", for example. This canvas of 1890-1891 is a female character lying naked on the ground, on which rests a Fox. The merits, a view of campaign, is made up of layers superimposed color from blue to red. Mysterious and mesmerizing. The canvas belongs to the Museum Chryser, of Norfolk, Virginia. The painting called "The morning", dated 1892 shows a seemingly bucolic Tahitian scene. In the foreground, a man is squatting. It simply needs. It is the December She was purchased in 2007 by the Hong Kong Joseph Lau billionaire for $ 39.2 million. There are also several wood carved set of Indonesian women. They are sinuous, wear long hair and one media is registered a slogan: "Love, you will be happy."

Paris, may regret the appointment missed with the middle ages for the exhibition "France 1500." "Between medieval and Renaissance" (), the national galleries of the Grand Palais. This period was the occasion of a flurry of works of a great wealth of imagination, but the operation, she turns to demonstrate academic, too technical. However, can go to here has u 10 January to admire masters absolutely unsung talent extraordinary as Jean Hey, also said the "master of Moulins", active to 1480, who painted religious scenes of startling realism. Or the objects out of the ordinary, such as the "heart of Anne of Brittany". The Queen had requested that his heart rests in Nantes with his parents. To contain, goldsmiths performed a heart gold of 16 centimetres in height, surmounted by the Crown of the Queen.

In any other type, the Museum of Decorative Arts is the point until 2 January on the design creation between 1945 and 1975 as title "Mobi boom, the explosion of design in France". The catalogue of the exhibition (55 euros, 320 pages) very usefully documents the creative context of this sequence of times. Historian Patrick Favardin notes that "the furnishings of the French during the thirty Glorieuses appears as a vast Kaleidoscope where national passions are expressed with a variety and formal richness that make much poverty and far vain discourse of the rhéteurs of modernity". The radiant city of Le Corbusier in 1952 to the designs of Pierre Paulin (author, including the pop show of Georges Pompidou in the Elysee Palace) through a quantity of original, ingenious and unsung designers.

It is January 11 that ends in Marseille at the musée Cantini () the exhibition consecrated in oeuvresà 100 a forgotten talent of the surrealist movement, the painter Jacques Hérold (1910-1987). The Romanian-born artist was close to André Breton from 1938 and one of the justifications for the exhibition corresponds to the residence of the artist in the company of the surrealists in Marseille until its boarding for the United States, between 1940 and 1941. To deceive their anguish, artists engage then surrealist games: they redraw the tarots of Marseilles and produce suites of fanciful designs in several hands, "exquisite corpses". In his 1957 book, "Abuse of painting", Hérold wrote: "the role of the painter, in my view, is to give a depth at which the human being, in General, lack of freedom, refuses to reality." Hérold does not produce a "fine painting", but a painting which calls. In 1931, the artist realizes for example "The Great Silence", which shows a naked and half skinned character holding a bird in his hand. The Sun is represented as a yellow thistle. "The Great Silence" is mystérieux