AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PEINTURE RECONNAISSANTE

LA PEINTURE D'HISTOIRE AU XIXE SIECLE

of FARGIER Jean-Paul

FRANCE, 1997, 00:26:00

Production : LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE, MUSEE D'ORSAY, PARIS PREMIERE
Collection : Musée d'Orsay
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Art, History, Orsay Museum, Painting, Society

Summary :
What was Peplum before Peplum? Pictures representing - on a huge surface - murders, battles, biblical or mythological scenes.
Beyond the simple work of rediscovering a neglected pictorial tendency, the film replaces the historical painting in the art of the nineteenth century, tells its evolution, its end, and shows us some famous or unknown works by Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Courbet, David, Delacroix, Ingres.
Jean-Paul Fargier’s documentary casts an amazing light on the fantasizing function of the historical painting and its extensions in the twentieth century through the mediation of the cinema and the television.

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