Le Tintoret
1518 (Venise) / 1594 (Venise)
"Tintoret discourages and repels. He makes the spectator an actor and pushes the amateur. He surprises you, seizes you and constrains you. It only remains to the one who was about to observe and to judge to turn away or to enter in the dance. One cannot, whatever the desire, stop on one of the characters without being pushed towards his neighbor, the one that he indicates by a gesture, a movement of arm, a glance, a torsion, a supplication, finally an unbalance."
Text by Jean-Louis Baudry, Art absolument n°1, May 2002.
"Tintoret discourages and repels. He makes the spectator an actor and pushes the amateur. He surprises you, seizes you and constrains you. It only remains to the one who was about to observe and to judge to turn away or to enter in the dance. One cannot, whatever the desire, stop on one of the characters without being pushed towards his neighbor, the one that he indicates by a gesture, a movement of arm, a glance, a torsion, a supplication, finally an unbalance."
Text by Jean-Louis Baudry, Art absolument n°1, May 2002.
Artist's articles
Artist's exhibitions
Tintoret, naissance d’un génie
07/03/2018 - 01/07/2018
(Paris) Musée du Luxembourg
07/03/2018 - 01/07/2018
(Paris) Musée du Luxembourg
L’œil et la passion. Dessins italiens de la Renaissance dans les collections privées françaises
19/03/2011 - 20/06/2011
(Caen) Musée des Beaux-arts de Caen
19/03/2011 - 20/06/2011
(Caen) Musée des Beaux-arts de Caen
Les Esterházy et les Romanov, princes et tsars collectionneurs
26/01/2011 - 29/05/2011
(Paris) Pinacothèque
26/01/2011 - 29/05/2011
(Paris) Pinacothèque
artist_books
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