Citizens of the World. Blacks and Orientals by Géricault.
Lienart| N° d'inventaire | 22561 |
| Format | 22.5 x 26.5 |
| Détails | 253 p., hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359063028 |
The Musée Vivant Denon in Chalon-sur-Saône has for a long time held a magnificent Portrait of a Black Man by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), painted by the young painter during his apprenticeship with Pierre Guérin, around 1811-1812. Following the Musée d'Orsay's exhibition devoted to the Black Model, the rediscovery of this portrait allows for a broad exploration of Géricault's singular vision. He was indeed one of the first Western painters, in his famous Raft of the Medusa at the Salon of 1819, to make a mixed-race man the main hero of a monumental scene, yet again the embodiment of a message of a humanist and futuristic nature. Géricault's anti-colonialist vision does not stop there: the Romantic artist explores and magnifies the revolt of the slaves of Saint-Domingue, celebrates the resistance of the Egyptians against the Napoleonic armies, but also the Greek War of Independence. Citizens of the world aspiring to the political emancipation of their country, to the brotherhood of peoples.
The Musée Vivant Denon in Chalon-sur-Saône has for a long time held a magnificent Portrait of a Black Man by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), painted by the young painter during his apprenticeship with Pierre Guérin, around 1811-1812. Following the Musée d'Orsay's exhibition devoted to the Black Model, the rediscovery of this portrait allows for a broad exploration of Géricault's singular vision. He was indeed one of the first Western painters, in his famous Raft of the Medusa at the Salon of 1819, to make a mixed-race man the main hero of a monumental scene, yet again the embodiment of a message of a humanist and futuristic nature. Géricault's anti-colonialist vision does not stop there: the Romantic artist explores and magnifies the revolt of the slaves of Saint-Domingue, celebrates the resistance of the Egyptians against the Napoleonic armies, but also the Greek War of Independence. Citizens of the world aspiring to the political emancipation of their country, to the brotherhood of peoples.