Ingres Regards croisés

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1857) Ingres is undoubtedly one of the most popular French artists. Although this painter, born in Montauban in 1780, borrowed heavily from Antiquity, the artists of the Quattrocento and Raphael, among others, while remaining original and provocative, he himself has never ceased to be looked at, copied and sometimes plundered by his successors, during his lifetime as well as after his death in 1867, in Paris. After his numerous sometimes unfaithful students, most of the great artists of the 19th century, including Degas, Renoir, Seurat, as well as the "Pompiers" such as Gérôme, have made Ingres' works the raw material of their own creation; the first photographers such as "Négre or Nadar" have also seized them. In the 20th century, this fascination will characterize the approach of the great Classics like Picasso, Matisse, Dali, Ernst, Magritte, Duchamp, Ingres will also captivate the contemporaries, the Expressionists Bacon and Botero, as well as the followers of the "New Figuration", Adami, Erro, the Pop artists such as Rivers, Raysse, Jacquet.... As well as the Conceptuals Broodthaers, Filliou, Baldassari, passing through the most recognized photographers like Cindy, Sherman, Jeff Wall, Araki, Witkin.... And very young promising artists. The first part of the work is devoted to Ingres' life and career and his sources of inspiration. His masterpieces are reproduced there. A second part, the most developed, highlights the influence that the master of Montauban had up to the present day and in all corners of the planet.