Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre | St. Louis
MOCRA NEWSLETTER
March 15, 2011
MISSOURI -- The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art presents Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre (the complete set of 58 etchings) through July 31. Although not one of the original group of Fauves, Rouault (French, 1871-1958) is associated with them because of his use of colors to affect the way we see his images. He is also widely considered the most important Christian religious artist of the twentieth century. In his paintings as well as in his prints, Rouault shows us that though "We think ourselves Kings," we are more accurately seen as circus clowns, each wearing our own mask to disguise our true nature ("Are we not all convicts?" asks the title of one of The Miserere) from ourselves. For Rouault, what saves us from ourselves, if anything can, is Christ and the Virgin Mary, both depicted throughout many of Rouault's works. [link]
March 15, 2011
MISSOURI -- The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art presents Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre (the complete set of 58 etchings) through July 31. Although not one of the original group of Fauves, Rouault (French, 1871-1958) is associated with them because of his use of colors to affect the way we see his images. He is also widely considered the most important Christian religious artist of the twentieth century. In his paintings as well as in his prints, Rouault shows us that though "We think ourselves Kings," we are more accurately seen as circus clowns, each wearing our own mask to disguise our true nature ("Are we not all convicts?" asks the title of one of The Miserere) from ourselves. For Rouault, what saves us from ourselves, if anything can, is Christ and the Virgin Mary, both depicted throughout many of Rouault's works. [link]
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