OLD AND NEW LOUVRE
After our conferences at the Louvre School on the Monday or Wednesday, Marielle and I usually go off and look at the originals of the work that have been discussed - if of course they are in the Louvre. This week there were none so we decided to go and see two small - very small exhibitions. Both quite bewildering! The first had interested me as I have been reading quite a bit on the subject New Frontier II. American Art Enters the Louvre.
The origins of American genre painting «This year’s theme is the development of genre painting in the United States from the first half of the 19th century to the Civil War, a period of economic and territorial expansion for the young nation. Interest in art was not yet widespread, and European academics struggled to find an audience. Some American artist met with popular success by painting scenes that depicted the daily lives of people on the fringes of society, those who ventured into the huge country’s virgin territories. Though seemingly n