Presents nearly 70 works from Symbolists, Nabis, Fauves, Cubists
and Surrealists: Gauguin, Bonnard, Rodin, Serusier, Denis, Redon,
Matisse, Dufy, Picasso, Douanier Rousseau, Arp, Giacometti and
Chagall. Since easel painting began, the figure of Eve has been
found in the work of painters from Masaccio to Rubens, taking in
Michelangelo, Bosch and Brueghel along the way. In the 12th
century, the image of the first woman emerged as being the common
theme which brought painters and sculptors together around issues
relating to the body. The first woman, or the only woman in an
artist's world, Eve is the intrinsic representation of the nude. So
many artists, from Gauguin with his exotic Eve or Bonnard with
Marthe-Eve, succumbed to this portrayal of nudity as either
shameful or as an ideal, inherently primitive. The catalogue
presents nearly 70 works from Symbolists, Nabis, Fauvists, Cubists
and Surrealists: Gauguin, Bonnard, Rodin, Serusier, Denis, Redon,
Matisse, Dufy, Picasso, Douanier Rousseau, Arp, Giacometti and
Chagall. It endeavours to trace the story of Eve, the source for
the figurative body, at greater length and in more depth, through
essays by Jean Louis Schefer and Veronique Serrano, as well as
focus pieces by Gilles Genty, Laurence Madeline, Aline Magnien and
Elisabeth Pacoud-Reme. Roberto Mangu's contemporary view talks of
the need that present-day painting, and art in general, has for the
presence of Eve, in terms of her unchanging qualities.
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