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11/9/2011

Le Culte de la beaute'

Musee d'Orsay, Paris

This exhibition explores the "Aesthetic Movement" which, in England in the second half of the 19th century, has the vocation to escape the ugliness and materialism of the era, a new idealization of art and beauty. Painters, poets, decorators and designers define an art freed from the principles of order and morality, Victorian, not devoid of sensuality. This movement is seen through the emblematic works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. They all united in a quest to combine artistic creation and lifestyle, a quest that found fertile areas of expression in photography, the decorative arts, literature and modes of dress. The artists of the Aesthetic Movement, as it came to be known, sought nothing less than to create an art form freed from the established precepts of the Royal Academy, liberated from social conventions. Curators: Stephen Calloway, Victoria & Albert Museum; Lynn Federle Orr, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Yves Badetz, Musee d'Orsay. Image: John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) Sainte Cecile 1895.

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