French painting of the 19th century: opening up to the world

From Jan 10, 2023 To Feb 4, 2023 From 6:30 PM To 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 2023-01-10 18:30:00 2023-02-04 20:00:00 French painting of the 19th century: opening up to the world Master class on Géricault, Delacroix, Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec: four chronological sessions and one Harvard Museum visit to better understand 19th century French painting. The French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York

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Master class on Géricault, Delacroix, Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec: four chronological sessions and one Harvard Museum visit to better understand 19th century French painting.

In the 19th century, France was living an era of profound political and social changes. Learn why the paintings exhibited in Parisian salons had a considerable impact on the French imagination. This class will help you understand how these changes brought France into the modern era.

Tuesday, January 10 from 6.30pm to 8pm: Géricault, the rise of romanticism. We will study Géricault's most famous paintings, such as The Rift of the Medusa, and see how travels influenced a new generation.

Tuesday, January 17 from 6.30pm to 8pm: Delacroix, romanticism in full bloom, or the fiery painting of the human heart. We will see how Delacroix describes universal passions with real or inner fights.

Tuesday, January 24 from 6.30pm to 8pm: Manet, the first modern painter? With his paintings reflecting the society of his time, Manet reverses the representation of the world and enters fully into the modern era.

Tuesday, January 31 from 6.30pm to 8pm: Toulouse-Lautrec, the draftsman. With his portraits of Paris’s lower class, Toulouse-Lautrec invites the whole world to visit the French capital, the city of Arts.

The last session will be a FOGG Museum visit on Saturday, February 4 at 10am

Members

$300

Non-members

$400

About About Fleur Thesmar

After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique and getting an MsC at London’s Imperial College, Fleur Thesmar worked in France for 20 years in the high tech industry. Her arrival in the United Stated in 2015 revived an ancient passion of hers: painting. She took classes at the MFA with the studio art program. Since then, she has exhibited her paintings and fiber artworks for national and international juried shows in Boston, Cambridge, Arlington, Newburyport, Norwell, Boylston, MA, Brooklyn NY, Cheyenne, WY, Bourg-La-Reine, France, etc. As an emerging artist, she wishes to share her intense emotions and change of perspective due to her immigration to the USA.

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