"The Bauhaus Spirit" is on display until February 26, 2017, at the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris. The exhibition offers a wonderful account of the years from 1919 to 1933, when the famous German art school embraced every medium and material, branching out from architecture into dance, painting, photography, ceramics and woodworking.
The forms invented by artists such as Vassily Kandinsky (also on display in Grenoble), Paul Klee and Gerrit Rietveld, who was influenced by Piet Mondrian's geometric rigor, owe much to mathematics: Kandinsky, who theorized his art in his 1926 book Point et Ligne sur plan; Klee, with his highly structured forms; and Mondrian, with his red, blue and yellow rectangles… Our readers in Savoie can also enjoy a fine tribute to François Morellet at the musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry.
Art lovers visiting Paris should also stop by the **Musée des arts et métiers ("Claude Shannon, Code Magician") or the Musée de l'armée** at Les Invalides, whose "Secret Wars!" exhibition, running until January 29, features a wealth of historical documents and rare material relating to message encryption.
