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IT ALL STARTS AGAIN WITH A MOUSE: DISNEY RECYCLED BY CONTEMPORARY ART

Once upon a Time Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios
Bruno Girveau   (Curator, Head of Collections, Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts)
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts   (Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion)
08. March 2007


Pop Art made Mickey and Donald into icons, and artists continue to be inspired by Disney’s legacy today. This section shows some thirty works based on Disney characters, created by a diverse group of modern and contemporary artists that includes Gary Baseman, Christian Boltanski, Gottfried Helnwein, Bertrand Lavier, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Saul and Andy Warhol.




Gottfried Helnwein: American Prayer
American Prayer 2000
213 cm x 187 cm
oil and acrylic on canvas






IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS WALT DISNEY

Aux sources de l'art des studios Disney
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris - 16 septembre 2006 - 15 janvier 2007
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - March 8, 2007 - June 24, 2007
The exhibition is devoted to works inspired by characters and aesthetic of Walt Disney
Curator: Bruno Girveau
Head of Collections
Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
14, rue Bonaparte
75006 Paris

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Gottfried Helnwein: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris 2006
"American Prayer", oil and acrylic on canvas


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