The evocative title sums up perfectly the subject of the exhibition, as Fantin-Latour, torn between the need to represent reality but sincerely carried away by a powerful need to escape, according to a multi-form work, full of surprises, poetry and sensitivity.
Unclassifiable painter, Manet's friend but refusing Impressionism, the heightened romanticism of his early self-portraits gave way to realism poetized by the delicacy and subtlety rendering of light expressed through still-lifes which he is best specialist in the nineteenth century. He gives bunches of flowers the sensuality of a portrait where a branch protruding would like a bit rebellious, constantly seeking the balance between order and disorder, balance and imbalance. Exalted by the music of Schumann, Berlioz or Wagner, Fantin-Latour explored also, with relish, a later vein that the closer to the Symbolists, where he let his imagination run, trying to transcribe harmonies, enchanting transpositions of musical emotions . An opportunity to smell the classic perfumes of floral family.
Place:
Musée du Luxembourg - 19 rue de Vaugirard - 75006 Paris
RER : ligne B, arrêt Luxembourg (sortie Jardin du Luxembourg)
Métro : ligne 4, arrêt Saint Sulpice ; ligne 10, arrêt Mabillon
Schedule: start 7:30 PM
Appointment at 7:15 PM
Booking:
sdauber@akeonet.com – Tel : 06 60 63 68 80
Rate (SAO's member):
Entrance + guided tour: 25€ (Payment by bank check payable to the SAO or cash the D-day)
Pursuant Vigipirate plan, baggage will not be accepted. The controls are strengthened to the museum entrance.