The breadth of topics is interesting in that you can imagine the concerns of an 18th-century Frenchman. Royalty and poverty, religion and politics and history and literature are all captured in the aesthetic contributions of the century. The carefully selected works create a sort of artistic gestalt that encapsulates the concerns, feelings and struggles that were a part of the time. You meet them, notice their attire, see their world, their personalities and then turn around. The Revolution never seemed so necessary until I saw these men kindly juxtaposed with some of their inferiors in nearby paintings.
Art is a representation of the mind, and mindsets are formed within historical contexts.
This exhibit allows you to journey back into the world of thoughts that defined the time - and in their time you see the unrealized intimations of our own. No comments yet. No comments yet.