On the occasion of the Olympic Games, the Marmottan Monet museum questions the relationship of artists to sport, its representation from Impressionism to Cubism. Indeed, sport, by asserting itself as one of the components of modernism, appears in most currents of modern and contemporary art. Sport "reshapes" the body, invents a new aesthetic of gesture and contributes to the creation of the "new man". Sport thus participates in a certain way in major artistic innovations and has renewed the way we look at the body and at society. The exhibition, thanks to exceptional loans,
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