PARIS Musee D’Orsay, Masculin/Masculin (1800 to
present day) exhibition on now.- While it has been quite natural for the female
nude to be regularly exhibited, the male nude has not been accorded the same
treatment. It is highly significant that until the show at the Leopold Museum
in Vienna in the autumn of 2012, no exhibition had opted to take a fresh
approach, over a long historical perspective, to the representation of the male
nude. However, male nudity was for a long time, from the 17th to 19th
centuries, the basis of traditional Academic art training and a key element in
Western creative art. Therefore when presenting the exhibition Masculine /
Masculine, the Musée d’Orsay, drawing on the wealth of its own collections
(with several hitherto unknown sculptures) and on other French public
collections, aims to take an interpretive, playful, sociological and
philosophical approach to exploring all aspects and meanings of the male nude
in art. Given that the 19th century took its inspiration from 18th century
classical art, and that this influence still resonates today, the Musée d’Orsay
is extending its traditional historical range in order to draw a continuous arc
of creation through two centuries down to the present day The exhibition will
include the whole range of techniques: painting, sculpture, graphic arts and,
of course, photography, which will have an equal place in the exhibition.
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