The Musée d’Orsay, near our accommodations, has a brand new exhibition on provide trying on the Olympic Video games… of 1900, when sports activities tradition definitively entered the world of artwork…
Sport et idéal. Autour des Jeux Olympiques de 1900
Accrochage jusqu’au 22 sept.
👉 https://t.co/fc20KVpnA2La gare d’Orsay fut construite pour les visiteurs de l’Exposition universelle et des JO de 1900.
Un accrochage qui rend hommage à cet héritage. pic.twitter.com/xU1my1K9Z7— Musée d’Orsay (@MuseeOrsay) July 12, 2024
Through the second half of the nineteenth century, following France’s defeat in Franco-Prussian Warfare, the nation badly wanted to really feel higher about itself and really feel robust.
The democratisation of sport contributed to this – initially an English pattern, sports activities had been lastly not simply reserved for wealthy white males, and artists started to depict these newly-popular practices of their artwork, with robust, wholesome our bodies seen stretching their limits and taking good care of their physiques.
At was at the moment additionally that girls had been allowed to take part within the Olympic Video games for the primary time ever (in 1990).
Society was evolving, and the humanities confirmed this.
This new exhibition reveals a variety of various representations of sport in artwork, with types that first took insipration from the Greek preferrred earlier than evolving to be in tune with their period. One particaularly eloquent instance of this being proven is Maurice Denis monumental portray Jeu de volant (1900) which is extra the three metres lengthy and depicts girls taking part in sport along with rackets.
You would possibly wish to know that visiting the Musée d’Orsay is easy even through the Olympic Video games (entrance is by way of rue de Lille, however there isn’t a want for a QR code). Nonetheless, opening hours have been modified for the summer time.
The museum is open daily besides Mondays (however exceptionally closed on twenty fifth and twenty sixth July 2024), there aren’t any late night time openings from 18th July – fifteenth August 2024 inclusive, and from 18th-Twenty fourth July 2024 on-line reserving is compulsory.
You’ll discover all the data right here.
The exhibition Sport and Beliefs – Across the 1900 Olympic Video games is on the Musée d’Orsay (right here) till twenty second September 2024
Open daily besides Mondays from 9.30am-6pm. Earlier than your go to, verify particulars right here
Admission: 16€ / 13€ (on-line ticket gross sales right here)
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