The dark side of romanticism at the Orsay Museum

The first to theorize about the dark side of the renaissance was the Italian Mario Praz who analyzed the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries which emphasized the concepts of misery, poverty, death, vice and lust. There have been many definitions of the ego and fear especially in painting. It's precisely this nature that the exhibition that ends on 9 June at the Orsay Museum wants to demonstrate: the angel of the bizarre. The dark romanticism of Goya and Max Ernst. This exhibition tells a lot about the culture of the 19th century, in which the force of reason sometimes swayed when faced with the fear of man, not just of progress but also of himself.

In the wake of a first date of the exhibition at the Städel Museum museum in Frankfurt, the Orsay proposes the discovery of multiple facets of this dark romanticism from Goya and Füssli to Max Ernst and the expressionist films of the 1920s through a selection of 200 works of painting, graphic art, sculpture and film. It is truly a unique event that should not be missed and one should take the opportunity to organize a trip to Paris not only to visit the exhibition but also to enjoy all the beauty Paris has to offer.

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