The Centre Pompidou will exhibit the largest retrospective of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, and trusses and tours with the Dutch De Stijl art movement, which intersects with his work. The aesthetic route through 100 works by the Dutch painter, who marked the modern art with black nets on the white canvas dotted with little squares in primary colors, is the first of this scale to be held in France and is open until March 21 2011.

De Stijl, which means style in Dutch, was a magazine devoted to the arts founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg in 1917 and lasted until 1931. Around it, artists who published manifestos, criticisms and theories that advocate a radical transformation of the arts met to replace the traditional art of illustration for an art that can be understood from itself, without reference to the world of objects or figurative reproduction.

This style was baptized by Mondrian as neoplasticism and intended to achieve real objectivity by releasing the work of art from its dependence on the momentary individual perception and temperament of the artist.

In search of plastic harmony, a universal language of shapes and primary colors that goes beyond the painting, Mondrian was the central figure and the most famous of the De Stijl movement.

Piet Cornelis Mondrian was born in Amersfoort on March 7, 1872. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. His first step in painting is part of naturalism and symbolism, influenced by trends in painting at the time.

He started his first step to abstraction influenced by the Cubism of Picasso and Braque, moving to Paris in 1911. In 1913 his career began to gain recognition, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, notable ideologue of the Cubist cause, praises the originality of the work that Piet presented in the 29^th edition of the Salon des Independants. In his apartment in Beaubourg, in the rue 26 in the Montparnasse district, he developed a particular vision of Synthetic Cubism that shows a clear tendency to abstraction.

The First World War (1914) takes him back to Amsterdam, where he met Theo van Doesburg, initiating a relationship of intellectual work that led to the founding of De Stijl, which would definitely influence their lives and their art.

After living several years in Paris and London, in 1940 he moved to New York due to the Nazi bombing. There his work is influenced by American urban life, starting his construction phase of the color that is reflected in two key works Broadway Boogie-Woogie and Victory Boogie-Woogie. The latter would be unfinished, since pneumonia ended his life in early 1944.

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Mondrian changed the face of modern art. His influence extends to painting, sculpture, graphic design, fashion and architecture. So if you are in Paris and want to know his aesthetics work, visit the Pompidou Centre and enjoy the city and a good rest in one of the apartments in Paris?

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It’s been thirty years since the renowned professor and expert in semiotics from the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco, was unexpectedly released in a huge variety of readers around the world with his first novel, The Name of the Rose, quite possibly one of the most important books published in the last half century.

The Name of the Rose was not only a great detective story debtor of the best books of Arthur Conan Doyle, aspect that correctly picked the super exclusively film adaptation of Jean Jacques Annaud.

Moreover, it could be read passionately as a text that could serve as a rigorous introductory manual to both the history of millennial heresies of the Middle Ages as to the philosophy of the period. Virtually every major debate at the time, starting with the universals are recorded in its pages, and William is as transcript of Holmes as of his lesser-known eponymous Ockham’s nominalism champion and pioneer of science-based empiricism favored by Averroes translations on Aristotle’s works, major event in Western history revolves around it, including things like nods to Borges and linguistic mazes in more than one sense of the book.

But perhaps his greatest merit was the fact that there was no need to be aware of all these things to greatly enjoy reading the text, which impacted on the way back and is melted in an almost imperceptible way. Avatars of the detective investigation were subtle and quietly illustrating the arguments of the proposed debates.

Eco probably was far from suspecting to publish the novel that its success would be largely responsible for the proliferation of an unusually high number of followers in the form of wildly popular historical novels of similar-looking approach with the addition of the plots and frames of a religious / mystery which itself introduced Eco Foucault’s Pendulum, his second novel, but with a stylistic and intellectual scope infinitely smaller and mostly located thousands of light years from the excellence of his book.

To close a circle and mock the whole phenomenon, Eco has just published his latest novel to date, The cemetery of Prague, whose plot takes place in Paris in 1897 and, among the aforementioned nods to both followers and to the novels of Dumas , Sue, Stevenson and Collins, not to mention the direct similarities with recent events, revolves around an absolutely despicable and unsympathetic called Simone Simonini mercenary is dedicated to creating forgeries of all kinds (from documents to consecrated hosts) to, inter alia, promote intrigues and conspiracies which do not exist. Does it sound familiar?

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It is a formidable book. If you rent apartments in Paris great protagonists of the novel, you will take the best read in a long time.?

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Often we hear people say that DJs are not musicians, that they do not compose their tunes, but merely “copy and paste elements that belong to other topics, and when doing this operation they are already adding something meaningful to a practice that also can develop in a much less creative. In fact, one can be a DJ in many different ways: there are some who put together a playlist and mix the tracks, others propose a series of songs to make dance track. But looking more closely at the whole art world around us, we note that this phenomenon of “copy-paste” is characteristic of the period, and it involves us from the dance floor to the so-called fine arts. It is no coincidence that the famous critic Nicolas Bourriaud recently compared the contemporary visual DJ artists.

For this aim, the ones who said that electronic music is not art or composition should listen to Birdy Nam Nam, a band of DJs who are (literally) musicians and they use turntables as musical instruments and they performance their themes on stage. This group comes from Paris, but is clearly noticed in other musical projects of the French underground scene. Sometimes they play their tracks, sometimes improvise in the moment, but they always offer a special and different experience, especially for those who love high style.

Birdy Nam Nam are working in Paris and they come from the great crew Scratch Action Hiro, with several individual awards. The group if formed by members Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need and Little Mike. In the course of their career as a whole they received many awards, among which famous Technics DMC stands out the (won in 2002). Since that time they are present in most underground electronic festivals, as well as larger ones such as “I Love Techno”. His first album was released in 2006 with the Uncivilized World Records and contained influences of jazz and electronic fusion. In March of that year, they made their performance at SXSW (South by Southwest), a famous festival which includes audiovisual and music and takes place every spring in Austin, Texas. The name “Birdy Nam Nam” is inspired by the funny movie by Peter Sellers “The Party”, held in 1968.

Birdy Nam Nam compose a “mosaic” using parts of themes of friend musicians, both old and contemporary albums and creating new forms of music on stage. Among their albums there are “Birdy Nam Nam” (2005), “Live” (recorded in June 2006 in “La Cigale” Paris), “Manual for Successful rioting” (published in 2009 with the collaboration of the Justice DJs and Yuksek) and “Birdy Nam Nam” (2010). A well known issue (and really beautiful) of this band is “Abessess” which played at the DMC Technichs 2002, and through which they received the same award and rave reviews.

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If you want to spend a weekend in the beautiful Ville Lumière and use the time to learn about this interesting project of electronics and more, we suggest you to rent apartments in Paris and enjoy the dance floor.?

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Sexual desire is a subject that has been discussed countless times, but when a scientists at Indiana University conducted a scientific study that reveals what men from 18 to 70 like without a doubt things take a different turn.

The research, led by scientist Erick Janssen, joined six different groups with 5 men in each of very different ages. All of them, during the study, said what increased or decreased their excitation.

First thing determined was that having an erection didn’t mean being excited because many, especially the eldest ones, said they could be excited without having an erection.

For many, having a confident couple who accepts herself was more desirable than one who felt uncomfortable. Something that most of them had in common was that in addition to the pretty face or nice body something they liked was the intelligence of women.

The mood and the established connection have much to do, while perfume, for some, is one of the most important things. Most surveyed men said that being away from home was much more exciting and, therefore, erotic than staying inside.

And finally, although the contrary is broadly understood indeed, researchers who conducted the study said that 30 percent of women would be turned more easily than most men.

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This time, with all the tips and advice needed to sexually turn your partner or a new acquaintance on, you cannot miss the opportunity to take a holiday and take advantage of it. You can rent apartments in Paris and enjoy the most romantic men on earth.?

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Polly Jean Harvey, known in showbiz as PJ Harvey is an English singer-songwriter who was born in the town of Dorset and formed a band when she was only a teenager with Rob Ellis on drums and Ian Olliver on bass, who eventually ended up being replaced by the now famous Steve Vaughan. In ’92 the trio released its first production, called Dry, and after this presentation, both Vaughan and Ellis left the group but at that time girl, did not resign and continued her solo career.

PJ Harvey in the world of music is the largest word. The artist not only won the Mercury Prize, one of the most important awards currently, but also the Brit Awards and had an amazing five Grammy nominations. Moreover, the magazine Rolling Stone named her the best new artist and best songwriter in ’92 and, last but not least, artist of the year in ’95.

The woman is now a very clear influence for many alternative rock bands of today and the indie world; even the band Uh Huh Her, which is formed by Camila Grey and Leisha Hailey, said in an interview that the band name is, obviously, taken from the album of the same name as Harvey launched in 2004.

Harvey has currently launched no fewer than 11 albums and continues to make presentations and tours around the world. Her last production launched in 2009, called A Woman a Man Walked By, this time landing in France to perform on February 24, at L’Olympia.

More info: http://www.olympiahall.com/

L’Olympia: 28 Boulevard des Capucines, 75009 Paris, Paris, France

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