Dominique de Font-Réaulx

This book examines the impact that photography's birth and development had on the classical art form of painting. It provides exploration by genre -- from portraiture and still life to landscapes, tableaux vivantes, and nudes -- of the various issues triggered by the encounter between 19th century pictorial creation and the invention of photography.

Painting and Photography, 1839-1914

Thierry Lefebvre

Laurent Mannoni

En 2004, la communauté scientifique et artistique célébrait le centenaire de la disparition du grand médecin physiologiste Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), propagateur en France de la méthode graphique, inventeur de la chronophotographie et pionnier du cinéma. A l'occasion de cet événement se tinrent au musée d'Orsay une exposition sur les expériences aérodynamiques du physiologiste et, les 19 et 20 octobre 2004, un important colloque intitulé " Etienne-Jules Marey et le film scientifique ", auquel participèrent de nombreux spécialistes venus d'horizons disciplinaires variés. Cet ouvrage regroupe les textes des principales communications du colloque ; quelques autres contributions éclairées ont été adjointes. L'œuvre de Marey, la méthode graphique, les débuts du cinéma et l'image scientifique y sont explorés sous différents aspects. Richement illustré, le livre est accompagné d'un DVD exceptionnel réunissant quelque quatre cents films chronophotographiques de la période 1890-1904, incunables issus des riches collections de la Cinémathèque française. Né à l'initiative de la Société d'études sur Marey et l'image animée (Sémia), cet ensemble exceptionnel est le fruit d'une collaboration étroite avec la Cinémathèque française et le musée d'Orsay. Il a bénéficié du soutien de l'Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot et de LVMH R&D Parfums et Cosmétiques.

actes du colloque du centenaire

EJ Marey

Sébastien Allard

Côme Fabre

Michèle Hannoosh

Mehdi Korchane

Asher Miller

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was one of the towering figures to emerge in France in the wake of Napoleon. No other artist of the nineteenth century balanced a reverence for the past with such a strong ambition and spirit of innovation. Distinguishing himself from many other talented young artists in Paris, he gained renown in the 1820s for his novel subject matter, theatrical sense of composition, vibrant palette, and vigorous painterly technique. His vast production—including some eight hundred paintings, prints in a variety of media, and thousands of drawings and pages of writing—won the admiration of countless writers and artists, including Charles Baudelaire, Paul Cèzanne, and Pablo Picasso. This comprehensive monograph closely examines the full breadth of Delacroix’s career, including his engagement with the work of his predecessors, his fascination with the natural world, his interest in Lord Byron and the Greek War of Independence, and the profound influence of his voyage to North Africa in 1832. It brings to life his relationships with his contemporaries, ranging from the painters Pierre Narcisse Guèrin and Antoine Jean Gros to Gustave Courbet, as well as his exploration of literary, historical, and biblical themes, his writing in personal journals, and his triumphant exhibition at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. Richly illustrated and encompassing the entire range and diversity of his art, from grand paintings to intimate drawings, Delacroix illuminates how this intrepid figure changed the course of European painting by heeding “a call for the liberty of art.”

Delacroix

Joelle Bolloch

Art and its Photographic Reproduction presents a selection of photographs, ranging from daguerreo types to auto chromes, from the collection of the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

Dominique de Font-Réaulx

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