Geneviéve Lacambre Livres

Geïllustreerd / Illustrated / Illustré / Illustriert / 9782844590015 / Oriental art / Frans / French / Français / Französisch / hard cover / dust jacket / 28 x 32 cm / 360 .pp /

The oriental motif is a recurring theme in western painting. From the Renaissance with its awakening interest in ancient cultures and art to the 18th century with its Grand Tours and "Turkish fashion," the oriental theme has not only documented artists' travels to the East, but has projected the wishes, desires and imagination of the West. From ethnographic etchings to exaggerated displays of the sultans' splendor, this paradox of fact and fantasy culminated in the 19th century with the genre Orientalism. Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, European colonization, and archaeological excavations opened up the region to numerous artists such as Decamps. Delacroix, Fromentin, Ingres, Lear, and Hunt, whose most famous works express oriental imagery. The Orient in Western Art presents the emergence and development of an artistic motif accompanied by explanations of social and cultural history.

Evoquant le monde mystérieux de Gustave Moreau, Marcel Proust écrit : " Sa maison était presque un musée, sa personne n'était déjà presque plus que le lieu où s'accomplissait une œuvre ". En décidant d'agrandir sa maison de la rue de la Rochefoucauld en 1895 par la construction des grands ateliers nécessaires à l'exposition de ses tableaux, Gustave Moreau fait œuvre exemplaire. Le musée, où est scrupuleusement conservé l'esprit de la présentation d'origine, permet encore, un siècle après, " de constater la somme de travail et d'efforts de l'artiste pendant sa vie " et, grâce aux pièces de l'appartement du premier étage, récemment restaurées à l'identique, de saisir la personnalité intime du peintre symboliste, médiateur entre la tradition et les innovations de notre siècle.

Gustave Moreau was one of the most influential painters of the 19th century, yet he is little known today. Teacher of Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault, he created a world of glittering, bejeweled illusion and mystery in his art. His complex, decorative style united a passion for mythology and mysticism with exquisite craftsmanship, and inspired a generation of Symbolist painters, poets, and writers, among them Proust, Mallarme, and the English Pre-Raphaelites. In his elusive, shadowed universe, compounded of dreams, memories, fragments of poetry, and ancient myths, Salome dances, Oedipus confronts the Sphinx, and Orpheus, master of music, sets his lyre singing. Trained in Renaissance art traditions, Moreau helped to open the way for modern art, and was especially fascinating to the later Surrealists, themselves drunk on dreams. Genevieve Lacambre takes us into the heart of this man's unique creativity, exploring his life and artistic sources. More than 120 paintings, drawings, and watercolors and a wealth of documents, letters, and photographs illustrate the life and work of this singular artist.

Dieses Buch verfolgt die Entwicklung des orientalischen Motivs von der venezianischen Darstellung der Renaissance und den ersten Beispielen der türkischen Mode bis zur Blütezeit des 19. Jahrhunderts und den Tunis-Bildern von August Macke und Paul Klee.