Black models: from Géricault to Matisse

Black models: from Géricault to Matisse

March 25, 2019 July 14, 2019 Exhibition has ended
Taking a multi-disciplinary approach that combines the history of art and the history of ideas, this exhibition explores aesthetic, political, social and racial issues as well as the imagery unveiled by the representation of black figures in visual arts, from the abolition of slavery in France (1794) to the modern day.
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Reproduction Édouard Manet - Olympia, 1863 - 24x30cm

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  • € 8.90
Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883)
Olympia, 1863
H. 130.5 ; W. 191 cm; with frame H. 177.5 ; W. 239 cm
Offered to the State by public subscription on the initiative of Claude Monet, 1890
© Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

With Olympia , Manet reinvents the traditional theme of the female nude through the play of frank and uncompromising painting. The subject as much as the pictorial language explain the scandal that the work provoked at the Salon of 1865.
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