Join artist APRIL GORNIK for a richly illustrated virtual walk-through
of the _Figures du Fou_ (‘FIGURES OF THE FOOL’) exhibition, which
opened October 16, 2024 at the Louvre Museum and closed on February 5,
2025. _Figures of the Fool_ was a show brilliantly curated by
Elisabeth Antoine-König and Pierre-Yves Le Pogam. APRIL WILL SHARE
SLIDES OF THE EXHIBITION AND TALK ABOUT THE CURATORS’ intent and
introduce her own insights and ideas about the topic. Along the way,
APRIL WILL INVITE SOME THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE. At the
end, there will be a more formal question and answer period._Figures
of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics_
[https://www.louvre.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/figures-of-the-fool]
(click on the link for the exhibition’s website) offered a deep dive
into the multiple meanings of fools in books, illustrations of the
Bible, sainthood, brothels, at court, on the battlefield and
elsewhere, in positions of power, and in positions of poverty. Fools
had an extraordinary popularity from the 13th through the 16th
centuries, with new notions of the fool reignited in the public
imagination during the age of Romanticism as well as the beginning of
psychology. Fools include hermits, simpletons, saints, sinners mocking
courtly love, party animals, buffoons both royal and common, mad
kings, seekers and seers, licentious seducers, jugglers, conjurers,
and, not least of all, artists.
party
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