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Orientalism is a common literary and artistic west of the ^nineteenth century. It marks the importance of this time for the cultures of North African , Turkish and Arabic. Inspired by the Middle East , Orientalist art did not match any particular style and works to bring together artists and personalities as different and opposite that Horace Vernet , Ingres , Delacroix , Theodore Chasseriau , Jean-Leon Gerome , Fromentin , Alexander Roubtzoff until Renoir (his Odalisque of 1884 ) or even Matisse and Picasso in the early ^twentieth century. So it's rather a fairly broad which reads the various artistic movements of this period.

This attraction for the addition, the search for the exotic , so influenced society. The salons of the bourgeoisie and the nobility gave receptions and fancy dress on the model and colorful fantasy courses East. Some took the wealthy characters posing for their portraits clothed in silky clothes befitting an emir.

The "modern Orientalism" in painting is an extension of the classical orientalism said, and rises to the year 1,905 / 1910 with the creation of the Villa Abd-el-Tif , and its price from 1907. It finds its full development after the First World War and lasting until 1960. Besides this school, the years 1 910 contemporary painters - in 1970 have brilliantly taken up and continued the oriental motifs, landscapes, nature, genre scenes, such Pontoy Henry ( 1888 - 1,968 ), Jacques Majorelle ( in 1886 - 1962 ), Paul Elie Dubois ( 1886 - one thousand nine hundred forty-nine ), Edy Legrand ( one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two - one thousand nine hundred and seventy ) and Hervigo Gustave ( 1896 - 1993 ). After the dismantling of the French Empire and the independence of Algeria , there is no longer, strictly speaking, Oriental School, but inspired Orientalist painters, such as the French Jean-Franois Arrigoni-Neri (born in 1937 ), Roman Lazarev (born 1938), or the Algerian Hocine Ziani (b. 1953 ) as well as Moroccans Balili Ahmed (born 1955) and Abdelkrim Belamine (b. 1964). Orientalism of the XXI ^century "belongs" now in its inspiration, artists from the Maghreb.

The Odalisque with the Slave.
Paint Orientalist of the nineteenth ^century to Dominique Ingres.

Summary

1 Some key themes
- 1.1 List of Orientalist painters
- 1.2 Literature
2 See also

Some key themes

The Death of Sardanapalus by Delacroix , Muse du Louvre, Paris

The harem fantasy

At that time, the pictorial representation of nudity is offensive if it is not justified. However, the harem is intended as an expression of otherwise unknown. There are different mores and practices tolerated (such as slavery, polygamy, public bath, etc..). This tolerance leads Europe in a phenomenon of fascination and repulsion for the harem (or harem ), where despotism (sexual) par excellence of the Sultan. Indeed, the harem, so far from the customs and culture of Europe at the time the subject of many questions but also many fantasies. Harems dreamed / fantasized / imagined are often populated by languid odalisque lasciviously, offered, in the steam bath ... a popular theme in particular by Jean-Lon Grme.

The dream, moreover, the exotic East

Most of these paintings show us an east between reality and fantasy. All artists who, at that time represented the East have not necessarily traveled in the countries of the Middle East. However, the majority said Orientalist painters such as Delacroix and others have undertaken long journeys in the Maghreb countries to report many sketchbooks. Sketch-which they used for the composition of their paintings once back home.

However, Etienne Dinet abandons record of their first issues, particularly the nude, to devote himself to exploring the human condition of the Bedouin. His painting reflects both the soul of his model and the vibrant local colors in the light Saharan Africa. The result is a work of aesthetic and human.

List of Orientalist painters

Alphabetically

Main article: Orientalist Painting.

Literature

Auguste-Louis-Armand Loiseleur Deslongchamps
Pierre Loti : Aziyade
Victor Hugo : Les Orientales
Pierre Benoit : Atlantis, etc..
Myriam Harry : Passing Bedouins, Madame Petit-Jardin, etc..

Collective, Orientalism in Europe Dalacroix to Kandinsky, Hazan, 2010, 312 p. ( ISBN 9782754105064 )
Urs App , The Birth of Orientalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 ( ISBN 978-0-8122-4261-4 )
Irini Apostolou, Orientalism of French travelers in the eighteenth ^century. Iconography of the East Mediterranean, Paris, PUPS, et al. "Imago Mundi", 2009
Martin Bernal, Black Athena. Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Paris, PUF, 1996, 612 p.
Thomas Brisson, " The Arab Review of Orientalism in France and the United States , "Journal of cognitive anthropology, vol. 2, No. 3, p. 505-521
Dance of the soul, choice of texts from the Journal of Asian and Arab and Persian poets as seen by the Orientalists of the nineteenth ^century editions Intext, Toulouse, 2006 ( ISBN 2-9514986-7-5 ).
Karimi, Kian-Harald, At the time when they cut their idols - Die Wiederkehr of Pastiche von Gleichen im sptantiken Thais Anatole Frances. Ds: Michael Bernsen (Ed.): Orientalismus in der franzsischen Literatur of XIX. Jahrhunderts. Tbingen (Niemeyer) 2006, p. 223-253 (examples for the function of Orientalism).
Rgis Poulet, L'Orient: Genealogy of an illusion, of the North University Press, 2002, 754 p. ( ISBN 2-284-03387-3 )
Edward W. Said , Orientalism. The East created by the West, Editions du Seuil, collection "The Color of Ideas", 1978 ( ISBN 2-02-079293-1 )
Singaravlou Pierre, The French School of Far East or the imposition of margins. Testing social and political history of colonial science (1898-1956), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999, 282 p.
Olivier Weber , The Great Feast of the East, Robert Laffont, 2004