| Montparnasse |
Shopping Montparnasse |
Articles about Montparnasse |
Information AboutMontparnasse |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT MONTPARNASSE | |
| districts of paris | |
| french art | |
| modern art | |
| paris vie arrondissement | |
| paris xive arrondissement | |
| paris xve arrondissement | |
|
Montparnasse is an area of Paris , France , on the Left Bank of the river Seine , centered on the intersection of the Boulevard De Montparnasse and the Boulevard Raspail . Montparnasse was absorbed into the 14ème Arrondissement in 1860. The area also gives its name to:
The Pasteur Institute is located in the area. Beneath the ground are tunnels of the Catacombs Of Paris . There are a number of Breton restaurants specializing in '' Crêpe s'' (thin pancakes), a few blocks from the Gare Montparnasse, serving Bretons who arrived here from Brittany. The name Montparnasse stems from the nickname " Mount Parnassus " (''In Greek Mythology , home to the nine Greek goddesses — the Muses — of the arts and sciences'') given to the hilly neighborhood in the 17th century by students who came there to recite poetry. The hill was levelled to construct the Boulevard Montparnasse in the 18th century. During the French Revolution many dance halls and Cabaret s opened their doors. ARTISTIC MONTPARNASSE Like its counterpart, Montmartre , Montparnasse became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, referred to as the ''Années Folles'' (the Crazy Years), when it was the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris. Between 1921 and 1924, the number of Americans in Paris swelled from 6,000 to 30,000. From 1910 through to the start of WWII, Paris' artistic circles gradually relocated into Montparnasse, an alternative to the Montmartre district which had been the intellectual breeding ground for the previous generation of artists. The Paris of Zola , Manet , France , Degas , Fauré , a group that had assembled more on the basis of status affinity than actual artistic tastes, indulging in the refinements of Dandyism , was at the opposite end of the economic, social, and political spectrum from the gritty, tough-talking, diehard, emigrant artists that peopled Montmartre. Virtually penniless Painter s, Sculptors , Writer s, Poet s and Composers came from around the world to thrive in the creative atmosphere and for the cheap rent at artist communes such as La Ruche . Living without running water, in damp, unheated "studios", seldom free of rats, many sold their works for a few francs just to buy food. Jean Cocteau once said that poverty was a luxury in Montparnasse. First promoted by art dealers such as Henry Kahnweiler , today works by those artists sell in the millions of dollars. They came to Montparnasse from all over the globe, from Europe , including Russia and Ukraine , from the United States , Canada , Mexico , and from as far away as Japan . Manuel Ortiz De Zárate , Camilo Mori and others made their way from Chile where the profound innovations in art spawned the formation of the Grupo Montparnasse in Santiago . A few of the other artists who gathered in Montparnasse were Pablo Picasso , Guillaume Apollinaire , Ossip Zadkine , Moise Kisling , Marc Chagall , Nina Hamnett , Fernand Leger , Jacques Lipchitz , Max Jacob , Blaise Cendrars , Chaim Soutine , Michel Kikoine , Pinchus Kremegne , Amedeo Modigliani , Ford Madox Ford , Ezra Pound , Marcel Duchamp , Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti , Constantin Brancusi , Paul Fort , Juan Gris , Diego Rivera , Marevna , Tsuguharu Foujita , Marie Vassilieff , Léon-Paul Fargue , Alberto Giacometti , Andre Breton , Pascin , Salvador Dalí , Jean-Paul Sartre , Henry Miller , Samuel Beckett , Joan Miró and, in his declining years, Edgar Degas . |
|
|