La nature morte – « fixer l’empreinte du temps »

• Authors: Andreea-Maria Diaconescu

Title variants

EN

Still life – fix the imprint of time

PL

La nature morte – « fixer l’empreinte du temps »

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Pascal Quignard – contemporary French writer winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2002 – admits he seeks his models on the side of unknown musicians, erotic painters, all artists left out of account history. Indirectly addressing the issue of still lifes, Pascal Quignard located in the lineage of Marcel Proust, who defines the still lifes in his book Chardin and Rembrandt, as the way to fix the imprint of time. An expression of the seventeenth century that Quignard summarizes the captivating charm of these paintings: still life paintings are coites. In fact, what is now called improperly still lifes had to name this time “life coye” quiet life. These terms do not characterize a genre, they reflect the spiritual aspiration of these paintings.

PL

Pascal Quignard – contemporary French writer winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2002 – admits he seeks his models on the side of unknown musicians, erotic painters, all artists left out of account history. Indirectly addressing the issue of still lifes, Pascal Quignard located in the lineage of Marcel Proust, who defines the still lifes in his book Chardin and Rembrandt, as the way to fix the imprint of time. An expression of the seventeenth century that Quignard summarizes the captivating charm of these paintings: still life paintings are coites. In fact, what is now called improperly still lifes had to name this time “life coye” quiet life. These terms do not characterize a genre, they reflect the spiritual aspiration of these paintings.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Cahiers ERTA
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 115-127

Dates

published

2014-12-01

Contributors

author

Andreea-Maria Diaconescu