Exhibition journal - The Golden Age of English Painting

FRENCH LANGUAGE

In the 18th century, British arts flourished in a diversity of styles and with unparalleled creative impulses. Painters evolve narrative figuration to take it to the sublime and open the way to a new conception of art as a support for the imagination. In parallel with this revolution in painting, the modern English novel was born. The writers of the time proposed a new literature, prose narratives of the life of a fictional being who evolved in a universe identical to that of the readers.

Painting and literature are then the mirror of these upheavals, and will serve as the main theme of the exhibition's journal.

Exhibition "The Golden Age of English Painting. From Reynolds to Turner" at the Musée du Luxembourg from 11 September 2019 to 16 February 2020