And suddenly everything starts to move... When the train was born, the artists not only discovered a way to easily reach still original motifs (Brittany for Gauguin for example), but, with it, they experienced without fatigue, as an observer behind the pane of the window, the feeling that the world is not frozen.
Before their eyes, the environment trembles, scrolls, stretches, spins, blurs, renews itself with each hedge, each field.
Would there then be no more sure, fixed and eternal beauty?
From 1837, the year of the inauguration of the Saint-Lazare station, Hugo admired the beauty of a landscape where
"everything becomes striped"
.
Modernity has left the quay, it will soon be spinning at full speed.
At the Musée d'arts de Nantes, Jean-Rémi Touzet, the new curator in charge of the 19th century collections, reports on this revolution in the gaze and perceptions;
this in a hundred works, famous or not, but which all apprehend, criticize or celebrate the railway.
The inaugural canvas…
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