Introduction of Pompidou Art Center in Paris

Pompidou (1911-07-05, MontBourdieu, France ~ 1974-04-02, Paris) was a French politician, bank chairman and teacher, and later served as French Prime Minister (1966) Teacher's son. In World War II, the captain was introduced to Charles de Gaulle, the head of the French interim government. Pompidou here refers to the French National Georges Pompidou Art and Culture Center, which is located on the edge of Beaufort Street and the historical site swamp. The center was commissioned by President Pompidou, so the National Pompidou Cultural Center named after Paris is located in the north of the famous Latin quarter and on the right bank of the Seine. It was established at the initiative of the late French President Pompidou. It is a new modern treasure house integrating knowledge, art and life. People here can absorb knowledge, appreciate art and enrich their lives through modern technology and means.

Pompidou Culture and Art Center consists of four parts: Industrial Creation Center, Public Reference Library, National Museum of Modern Art, and Music Acoustics Coordination Institute, for adults to visit, study and engage in research. At the same time, the Center has also set up two children's playgrounds. One is a "children's library" with 20,000 books of children's paintings and calligraphy, in which all facilities such as desks and bookshelves are set according to children's interests and needs; The other is the "Children's Studio", where children aged 4 to 12 can come to learn painting, dancing, acting, handicrafts and so on. The studio has staff who are responsible for organizing and tutoring children, cultivating children's interest and intelligence, and helping them improve their imagination and creativity.

In the "Industrial Creation Center", we mainly introduce the municipal construction, living environment and inventions of various craft products to the audience through various exhibitions and books. At the same time, it also provides the audience with information and advice on various daily consumer goods. The "public reference library" is not an old-fashioned library in the traditional sense at all. It has 300,000 contemporary books, 2,400 periodicals, 200,000 slides, 65,438+05,000 microfilms, 65,438+00,000 records, and various movies, videos, maps and tapes. All the facilities in the museum are open, and readers can browse open-shelf books at will; You can also watch movies and videos introducing literature, art, science and technology and folk customs of various countries at will through the video recorder; Music lovers can put on headphones and enjoy the records of their choice freely. There are magnifying glasses and photocopiers everywhere in the library, and readers can use them to consult microfilm and copy materials at any time. The library also has a language study room with 40 small rooms and related textbooks and materials in 40 languages, where people can listen to recordings, read textbooks and choose various languages.

The National Museum of Modern Art is also different from those old art galleries, focusing on the word "modern" and introducing various western plastic arts since the 20th century. Including 2,000 works of cubism, abstraction, surrealism, structuralism, conceptual art and popular art, the collection in the museum is also displayed in a modern way: the representative works of various schools are arranged in a main line in chronological order, and there are many small showrooms around them to introduce the works of a certain school and a certain writer respectively, so that the audience can not only understand the general situation of modern western art, but also conduct in-depth research on a certain school or writer who is interested. There are also movable shelves in the museum with works that have not been exhibited. At the press of a button, these automatic shelves can display the collections that the audience needs but are not on display in front of people.

The "Music-Acoustics Coordination Research Institute" is built underground next to the building to avoid noise interference. Its main function is to enable musicians to make use of modern equipment and technology to create. In addition, it is also engaged in the development of new musical instruments and various audio equipment.

"National Pompidou Cultural Center" is not only novel, unique and modern in internal design, decoration, equipment and exhibits, but also novel, unique and modern in external structure. Contrary to the traditional architectural art, this museum invites all columns, stairs and pipes that have never been seen before to leave the room in order to make room for internal use. The whole building looks like a huge chemical plant with colorful pipes and steel bars. In those huge transparent cylindrical pipes, escalators are busy welcoming tourists. At the beginning, this condemned "huge monster" has been accepted by Parisians and gradually loved by them.

If the Louvre Museum represents the ancient civilization of France, then the National Pompidou Cultural Center is the symbol of modern Paris.