Conference Philippe Brunet Museum of Fine Arts Saint-lô
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Declamation " Hymn to Aphrodite and Ode to the beloved in Sapphic stanzas
3 times a clause 11 syllables and 5 syllables.
- u - - - uu - u - -
then - su - -
- is a long syllable, u a short syllable.
All stanzas have the same rhythmic structure and orchestra, as I have shown that these worms will dance, I sing them, play them on the lyre and dance at the same time, which means that the three dimensions coexist accomplished at the same time. "(Philippe Brunet)
( Doc:" At Table! The landscape in the collections of the Museum of Saint Lo "- Educational Service of the Museum of Saint-Lô, April 1995)
( Personal Photo : Suzanne Leclerc, President of the Association of Friends of Museums St. -Acts presents the activities of the association, Philippe Brunet and theme of his lecture)
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This oil on canvas small size makes Sheet portion of the fund.
Academician Octave Feuillet had received from the painter, through Flora Singer, a friend of his wife. In a letter to Valérie Feuillet, Flora Singer presented this chart and "(...) I know nothing more touching than this little woman rejected by sea and on shore, dead, is still the lyre of the poet on his heart. You will see that the feeling is everywhere, even in the sun gently lying and resembling the moon. " If the letter writer reduced to an anecdote about the poet and to "a little woman," while emphasizing the function of the lyre and receives the symbolic dimension of colors and stars.
Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris has a preparatory drawing in pencil (16/27, 2 cm) Sappho, whose lying, languid attitude, worthy of a Ophelia - are those our table, while the version in watercolor (18, 4 / 12, 4 cm) (here) the Victoria and Albert Museum, Sappho on the rock present it just before the fatal jump in a very different position: marrying the verticality of the rock on which she leans, her face bent, facing left, eyes closed, she meditates, with, in the background, and chased right, the column topped by a winged horse that can be guessed, in the oil painting under the bloody haze of the sun couchant.Une gouache watercolor of 1880 (Private Collection , 33/20 cm), Sappho rushing into the sea, shows his fall (which no title could equally well be a flight or even the arrival of an avenging angel, like the Angels Sodom (93/62) G. Moreau Museum)
These few examples reveal the painter's fascination for this subject, treated for the first time in 1846, and most recently in 1893.
The presence of a lyre monumental and richly decorated with striking offers a reconciliation of the recurring figure Orpheus , especially in this oil on wood Musée du Louvre 1865 (154/99, 5 cm), where the severed head poet's collected by a young girl and placed on his Thracian lyre strangely reminiscent of the character of Sappho to drift and the horizontal composition of Table holy laws.
If we add that, in the myth, the head of Orpheus floated on the waters of Erebus, assimilation between these two poets is perfect, accentuated by their androgynous allure.
literary Painting? Gustave Moreau suffered from this point of view of his work, he whose ambition was to "make visible lightning inside that no one knows what to attach, that something divine (..) and which, translated the effects of pure plastic, provide magical walks " (Philippe Jullian, Aesthetes and magicians, 1969) and who told his pupil Evenepoel" Note one thing: we should think of color, have the imagination. "
Beyond the subject, the magic of this little picture is it not due to treatment of light, these effects of" pure plastic " to "color thought, dreamed, imagined" talking about the painter?
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Bibliography
Art de Basse-Normandie, No. 124-Fourth Quarter 2001, History Collections Museum of Fine Arts in Saint-Lô
Gustave Moreau, Jean Selz , Flammarion (1978)
Paris, Musée Gustave Moreau , edition of the RMN, Paris, May 1994, April 1998
Online Symbolist , Jose Pierre, Editions du Club France Loisirs, Paris
(Personal Photo)
Both videos were made Sunday, December 5, 2011 by Enitram I warmly thank: 1-
During his lecture-recitation entitled Psappho alive Philippe Brunet analyzed the style of the poet, his juxtaposition of words (similar to those of Victor Hugo evoking "shepherd-headland" ) which require translation freer than those who were until proposed here.
2-Listen to some verses sung Ethiopian lyre, rhythmic modern bard of a quick time.
(To be continued)
(Gustave Moreau, Jean Selz , Flammarion (1978))
Sappho rushing into the sea (ibid.),
Orpheus , oil on wood, Musée du Louvre (ibid.)
(Click to see more prints)
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