The Orsay Museum was criticized for an exhibition about prostitution in art
ARTinvestment.RU   20 октября 2015

Despite the fact that the exhibition "the Brilliance and poverty: patterns of prostitution. 1850-1910" in the Museum of Orsay enjoys huge popularity, critics accused the Museum in pursuit of mass appeal and high fees

Exhibition "the Brilliance and poverty: patterns of prostitution. 1850-1910", which is now in the Orsay Museum and will run until January 2016, has become one of the major events of this autumn in Paris. Visitors ecstatic, and, judging by the book reviews of love "ecstatic". Anyway, and the topic of the most ancient of professions were interested in and inspired so many famous artists — from Picasso with his "Avignon maidens" to Edouard Manet with his "Olympia".

However, some French critics are very skeptical in relation to this exhibition. In choosing the themes of the curators of the Museum they see the pursuit of the popularity and high sorami@

"All know that the budgets of cultural institutions constantly being cut, writes critic Philip Degen. But do we really need to entice the audience by showing them naked women in lewd poses and naked men showing their causal place?"

And journalist Harry Bellet from Le Monde compared the Orsay Museum with a cinema auteur cinema, due to financial difficulties forced to show the obscenity is more moral paintings. "Is this the level we have achieved with our large exhibitions of art?", asks Belle. The journalist recalled a number of previous exhibition projects the OPC according to him, the Museum, it seems, cannot leave the subject of sex. The exhibition dedicated to the Marquis de the Garden, a performance by Deborah de Robertis based on the painting by Gustave Courbet "the origin of the world".

Museum of the criticisms of the replies that this topic has always been one of the Central in art. The administration of the Museum warns on its website that "some works may be shocking to some visitors (particularly children)".

After Paris the exhibition will travel to the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam@

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru



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