Génération en révolution
Dessins français du Musée Fabre, 1770-1815
Benjamin Couilleaux, Michel Hilaire, Florence Hudowicz
Paris Musées, 2019
€35,00
Founding event of the Republic, the Revolution of 1789 brings together under a single term a set of thoughts, political, social and economic changes that have metamorphosed France in a short decade, turning it into a new era. Citizens are then led to take a stand: to adhere to Enlightenment ideas, or try to live or survive. Among them, young artists are facing the suppression of the Royal Academy in 1793 and the completion of markets naturally linked to orders.
The affirmation of the inclinations of a new bourgeois class of sponsors then translates into an attraction for the pleasures of everyday life and portraiture. History painting is experiencing a renewed fervor, the ancient models serving to exalt the revolutionary momentum, while the medieval past and the Middle East inspire the precursory movements of Neo-Gothic and Orientalism.
The contemplation of the panoramas renews the look, announcing the taste of the landscape, from Corot to the impressionists. David’s favorite pupil, François-Xavier Fabre (1766 -1837), painter and founder in Montpellier of the museum that bears his name, began his career at this pivotal time – whose upheavals are reflected through forms, subjects, sensibilities . By collecting the works of his contemporaries, he allows us today to tackle the aesthetic choices and the creative springs of French artists who were thirty years old under the Revolution.
ISBN: 9782759604197
