For many years, the Eiffel Tower has been used in advertising. On the spire of the Tower itself, between 1925 and 1936, “Citroën” was written in luminous letters.
Art and the Eiffel Tower
From the beginning the Tower was an attraction, but in the 1920s it became a symbol of modernity and the avant-garde. Little by little, its image was associated with Paris, until it even became its worldwide symbol.
Poets, painters, singers, choreographers, film directors, and photographers have all paid homage to it.
Painting and the Eiffel Tower
Ahead of their time, painters made the Tower into a favourite subject, and contemporary artists continue to use it as a model.
Georges Seurat painted it in 1888, before it was even finished. Later on, le Douanier Rousseau, Signac, Bonnard, Utrillo, Gromaire, Vuillard, Dufy, and Chagall all celebrated the Tower. From 1910 Robert Delaunay gave it cubist aspects in a whole series of canvas paintings.
A few painters:
- 1888 – Georges Seurat: « La Tour Eiffel » (Fine Arts, Museum of San Francisco).
- 1889 – Jean Beraud: « Entrée de l’Exposition Universelle » (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
- 1890 – Le Douanier Rousseau: « Moi-même, portrait paysage » (Narodni Galerie, Prague).
- 1899 – Paul Signac: « Seine Grenelle » (Coll. Particulière).
- 1910/1912 – Robert Delaunay: « La Ville de Paris » (MNAM – Centre G. Pompidou, Paris).
- 1911/1912 – Robert Delaunay: « La Tour Rouge » (S.R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
- 1912 – Romaine Brooks: « Jean Cocteau à l’époque de la grande Roue » (MNAM – Centre G. Pompidou, Paris).
- 1913 – Marc Chagall: « Paris par la fenêtre » (S.R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
- 1954 – Nicolas de Staël: « La Tour Eiffel » (Musée d’Art moderne, Troyes).
- 1954/1955 – Marc Chagall: « Le Champ de Mars » (Musée Folkwang, Essen).
Also: Raoul Dufy, Gino Severini, Utrillo, Bernard Buffet, Pol Bury, Roger Lersy…
The Eiffel Tower, a muse for the seventh art
Filmed by Louis Lumière from as early as 1897, and present ever since in a considerable number of productions, the Eiffel Tower was all the more tied to the adventure of cinema as Gustave Eiffel contributed as a silent partner to the company created by Léon Gaumont in 1895. During the 20th Century, the Eiffel Tower became the symbol of Paris and of France throughout the world. From the beginnings of cinema to today, its presence has given us somewhere to set the plot, or allowed us to give our works a timeless or romantic edge.
- 1897 – « Panorama pendant l’ascension de la Tour Eiffel » de Louis Lumière
- 1900 – « L’Exposition de 1900 » de Georges Méliès.
- 1906 – « La Course à la perruque » de Georges Hatot.
- 1924 – « Paris qui dort » de René Clair.
- 1927 – « Mystères de la Tour Eiffel » de Julien Duvivier.
- 1928 – « La Tour » de René Clair (documentaire).
- 1931 – « La Fin du monde » d’Abel Gance.
- 1939 – « La Tour Eiffel » de Jean Denis.
- 1947 – « À l’assaut de la Tour Eiffel » de Alain Pol.
- 1949 – « L’Homme de la Tour Eiffel » de Burgess Meredith.
- 1953 – « Bonjour Paris » de Jean Image (dessin animé).
- 1955 – « Marguerite de la nuit » de Claude Autant-Lara.
- 1956 – « Le Chanteur de Mexico » de Richard Pottier.
- 1960 – « Zazie dans le métro » de Louis Malle
- 1965 – « La Grande Course autour du monde » de Blake Edwards.
- 1967 – « Un idiot à Paris » de S. Korber.
- 1980 – « Superman II » de Richard Lester.
- 1981 – « Les Uns et les Autres » de Claude Lelouch.
- 1983 – « Le Ruffian » de José Giovanni.
- 1984 – « Rive droite – rive gauche » de Philippe Labro.
- 1985 – « Dangereusement vôtre » de John Glen.
- 1997 – « Le loup-garou de Paris » de A. Waller.
- 2000 – « Epouse-moi » de Harriet Marin.
- 2003 – « Le Divorce » de James Ivory et « Il fuggiasco » (le Fugitif) d’Andrea Manni.
- 2005 – « Le démon de Midi » de Marie-Pascale Osterrieth, « Angel-A » de Luc Besson et « La légende vraie de la Tour Eiffel » de Simon Brook.
- 2006 – « Da Vinci code » de Ron Howard.
- 2007 – « Rush Hours III » de Brett Rattner.
- 2010 – « From Paris with Love » de Pierre Morel et « Adèle Blanc-Sec » de Luc Besson.
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