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Marquis de Sade installation @ Musee D'Orsay Paris, by sgolby on Dec 28, 2014 17:53:56 GMT 1, While in Paris yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting the Musee D'rsay in Paris.  There is a wonderful installation in the museum about The Marquis De Sade called Attacking the sun.  Below is a little write up and some pics which I was able to snap while there.  Anyone in Paris should head over as the installation is incredibly engaging... especially if you have a bit of a dark side:

FROM THE MUSEUM's WEBSITE:

 Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740–1814) completely transformed the history of both literature and the arts, first as an underground writer, and later by becoming a veritable legend in his lifetime.
The Divin Marquis's work is a radical questioning of issues of limits, proportion, excess, notions of beauty, ugliness, the sublime and the body image. He takes the way we look at things and sweeps away all our religious, ideological, moral and social presuppositions.

Following the analysis of the writer Annie Le Brun, a specialist of Sade, the exhibition will be focusing on the revolution of representation opened up by the author's writings. Topics addressed will be the ferocity and singularity of desire, deviation, extremes, the weird and the monstrous, desire as a principle of excess and imaginary recomposition of the world, through works by Goya, Gericault, Ingres, Rops, Rodin, Picasso…

The violent nature of some of the works and documents may shock some visitors.



My Pics:

DALI




EDVARD MUNCH




JOHAN FUSSLI




GOYA




PICASSO

While in Paris yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting the Musee D'rsay in Paris.  There is a wonderful installation in the museum about The Marquis De Sade called Attacking the sun.  Below is a little write up and some pics which I was able to snap while there.  Anyone in Paris should head over as the installation is incredibly engaging... especially if you have a bit of a dark side:

FROM THE MUSEUM's WEBSITE:

 Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740–1814) completely transformed the history of both literature and the arts, first as an underground writer, and later by becoming a veritable legend in his lifetime.
The Divin Marquis's work is a radical questioning of issues of limits, proportion, excess, notions of beauty, ugliness, the sublime and the body image. He takes the way we look at things and sweeps away all our religious, ideological, moral and social presuppositions.

Following the analysis of the writer Annie Le Brun, a specialist of Sade, the exhibition will be focusing on the revolution of representation opened up by the author's writings. Topics addressed will be the ferocity and singularity of desire, deviation, extremes, the weird and the monstrous, desire as a principle of excess and imaginary recomposition of the world, through works by Goya, Gericault, Ingres, Rops, Rodin, Picasso…

The violent nature of some of the works and documents may shock some visitors.



My Pics:

DALI




EDVARD MUNCH




JOHAN FUSSLI




GOYA




PICASSO