How to paint horror, both to render what is unbearable in it and to preserve its fascinating power without becoming its champion?
It is difficult to fix the daily life.
And the horror can become unrealized when it passes through the filter of memory.
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Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection
At the La Piscine Museum in Roubaix, the work of Boris Taslitzky (1911-2005), a communist resistance fighter who survived several 20th century apocalypses, from the Nazi camps to colonial conflicts, including poverty and workers' revolts, overcomes these two pitfalls.
When the sketches are rare raw testimonies, the large oils, composed a posteriori
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turn out to be thought of as a rhetoric of disgust.
They maintain indeed the astonishment and cause the indignation.
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Boilly or the charm and horror of the Ancien Régime in Paris
The academician Jean Clair knew it, who, last year, in his masterful exhibition in Rome in homage to Dante, had drawn from the reserves of the Center Pompidou, where he had slept for ages, an infernal panorama of Buchenwald.
This 3 × 5 m canvas, whose colors…
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