REVOLUTION A L'ANTIQUE (UNE)

LES SABINES, JACQUES LOUIS DAVID - COLLECTION PALETTES

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1996, 00:30:00

Production : SAADOUN Paul, PALETTE PRODUCTIONS, PAINI Dominique, MUSEE DU LOUVRE, LA SEPT-ARTE, REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX, MUSEE D'ORSAY
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Allegory, Art, History of art, Memory, Louvre Museum, Painting

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.

August 1794, David is 46 years old. An episode of the foundation of Rome inspires him to do a few drawings and the idea of a painting that will be born only in 1799." Les Sabines", one of the most famous paintings of the Louvre museum, is a complex image of a breathtaking composition. There are so many implications that this painting becomes a metaphor for the spectator's look, in almost a fantastic way.