Victor Prouvé is a total artist.
In the Art Nouveau movement, he is known for book bindings, caskets, vase designs for Émile Gallé, soliflores in bronze, glass or biscuit, fashion design, sculptures and of course paintings.
The Playing Card Museum has imagined a dive into the creation of the
La Vie frieze,
commissioned in 1896 to adorn the main staircase of the town hall of Issy-les-Moulineaux.
According to Charlotte Guinoux, curator of the exhibition and heritage curator, the painter from the school of Nancy "
is very close to the medium of photography and he works a lot according to this process
".
As a drawing virtuoso, Victor Prouvé strives to represent every detail in real size in pastels, watercolors or charcoals.
Along the way, we progress with the artist in the conception of this prestigious commission, intended to depict an ideal Republic.
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He is a great republican, he depicts the ideal city, with men in harmony with nature
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