modern art | Jen and Willa

The Centre Pompidou offers a welcome retreat from rainy days. Grab a bite and some bubbly at Georges and watch the clouds roll over the rooftops, then submerge yourself in the art.. oh the art!

Here’s a small selection of our favourites; travelling back in time from the 1960 to early 1900s. Our humble snaps don’t really do any of these pieces justice.

Simon Hantai, Meun, 1968 – Hantai used his famous folding method to create this masterpiece. His works capture absence and isolation; using white space and colour in powerful and larger than life statements. The colour and size of Meun is piercing and brilliant.

Jackson Pollock, Number 26 A, Black and White, 1948 – This piece was completed during his most significant few years of creative genius. 1948 consolidated the effectiveness of the ‘drip technique; transforming American art in the twentieth century. Huge, striking and utterly engaging.

Joan Miro, Baigneuse, 1924 – Miro is said to have approached the creative process like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. This piece was early in his career and was the start of forty years of artworks conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Pablo Picasso, Le guitarist, 1910 – This piece is so absorbing. At the early stages (some say the start) of the cubist movement, the approach taken here underpins this significant time in moden art. This is the piece that will cause you to fall utterly in love with genius of Picasso; and provide context for the rest of his broad and magnificent collection.

Steal away out of the rain and enjoy.