Musée d'Orsay outing for Licence 1 ARTS students
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, Licence 1 ARTS students headed to Paris to visit Orsay, the capital's emblematic museum. This former railway station, converted into a museum in 1986, houses a wide range of works from the history of artistic creation in the Western world from 1848 to 1914. Students were able to explore a whole range of official academic art from the XIXth century, as well as the various artists and currents that broke new ground, paving the way for modern art from Manet to Neo-Impressionism.
Paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, photographs, drawings, films... From more confidential works to leading artists, students were able to (re)discover Courbet, Rodin, Cézanne, Bonnard, Monet, Van Gogh... in connection with their lectures on Art History and the Avant-Gardes of the Licence Arts Plastiques.
Only Manet's Olympia was missing from the RDV. Fortunately, she sent us a letter of apology from New York.
The day ended with a short stroll along the banks of the Seine and a walk through the Tuileries Gardens before rejoining the bus, as well as a detour to the Eiffel Tower.
