” The Musée des Augustins, Museum of fine arts, this Toulouse, from the 21 November 2015, a completely new exhibition on the figures of fantasy in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century. Yet little studied as a subject in its own right in the history of art, fantasy figures include paintings illustrating the fascination that have been able to exercise human figure and body on European art for more than two centuries.
This exhibition covers almost three centuries of European painting, from the beginning of the 16th century at the end of the 18th century. It is entirely original, as curious as it may seem, Although we meet problems envisaged also angle portrait, the scene of kind or allegory on the occasion of our past exhibitions.
Eight national schools are represented as well as the main European artistic centres, from Rome to Paris, of Utrecht in London, Antwerp in Vienna, Haarlem in Naples, from Seville to Venice.
Near some eighty tables were selected to illustrate the figure of fantasy.
Focus on emotions and human passions, They offer to look closer to the subject privacy and address universal themes, still surprisingly modern, as the appearance of feelings, the ambivalence of human beings humans or the gender issue. Away from the art of the portrait constrained by the command or fashion, This exhibition is a true praise of freedom, the invention and virtuosity in painting. “
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