Friday I finally went to the Musée d'Orsay to see their temporary exhibition, Crime et Châtiment, before it finally closes this week.
So many rooms filled with paintings, death masks, and newspapers of or relating to death. I think the most striking thing for me about the exhibit though was that, even though the works themselves spanned the centuries, the themes and styles seemed to all be the same - I continually found myself thinking "Oh this painting has to have been done in the past century" only to find it was done in the early 18th century while a drawing that seemed quite aged would only be 50 years old.
I wonder if this means anything about death and crime in general. Perhaps we never really come to view it in a new way, but continue to resee it in the same way over and over again.
So many rooms filled with paintings, death masks, and newspapers of or relating to death. I think the most striking thing for me about the exhibit though was that, even though the works themselves spanned the centuries, the themes and styles seemed to all be the same - I continually found myself thinking "Oh this painting has to have been done in the past century" only to find it was done in the early 18th century while a drawing that seemed quite aged would only be 50 years old.
I wonder if this means anything about death and crime in general. Perhaps we never really come to view it in a new way, but continue to resee it in the same way over and over again.
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