LETTRE, LA FLECHE ET LE BALAI (LA)

LES JEUNES – LES VIEILLES, FRANCISCO DE GOYA - COLLECTION PALETTES

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1991, 00:30:00

Production : DELTA IMAGES, PAINI Dominique, MUSEE DU LOUVRE, FR3, LA SEPT, REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX, MUSEE D'ORSAY
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Art, History of art, Louvre Museum, Painting, Paintings, Time

Summary :
Choosing key-works in the imaginary of the Western culture, the series called “Palettes” tells in each episode the story of a different painting. In a word, it tells the genealogy of the painting. For a painting has its ancestors and its descendants. A double technical and philosophical knowledge, fed on by a long tradition, gave birth to the painting. And the painting itself gave birth, year after year, to a multitude of other images…
Assuming the idea that the deep meaning of a painting is conveyed by the choice of colours and themes, we dissect the canvas from its most visible composition to its deepest significance.


In light of the evidence for dating, historical, political views of Goya and themes that have haunted his paintings, drawings and books of engravings, Alain Jaubert gives multiple readings of two Spanish master's paintings in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Lille, the same size and often considered for one of the other: "Youth" (circa 1812-1814) and "the Old" (circa 1808-1810).

Both works, close to the invoice between dark tones to thick white, show a woman accompanied by her maid, young and beautiful in one, old and decrepit in the other. A walk in one, confined to the other. On one hand, the feminine charms as in many portraits and "majas" of the painter, on the other cartoons as scary witches of his collections of engravings. Accessories and third party put the interpretation. Social criticism point: the beautiful bourgeois cares only about the word of a gentle lover, while the washerwomen of the background work tirelessly,The pretty rich and disgusting deludes herself in front of her mirror., but the time prepares to sweep her mercilessly. Is the meaning of it not more accurate? What does the diamond boom do in the dyed hair of the old , but years ago, the portrait of Queen Marie-Louise with many lovers, who will flee leaving a bloodless Spain?

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