Beyond the stars, the Musée d'Orsay's exhibition investigates the mystical side of Symbolist landscape painting. Since the Renaissance, and even more so since the Romantic period, landscape has been the pictorial genre reputed to enable the formal translation of immediate spiritual experiences that cannot be formulated by language.
Gauguin, Denis, Monet, Hodler, Klimt, Munch and Van Gogh have all attempted to make visible secular, Catholic and Protestant mystical beliefs and superstitions, such as the search for the infinite, the ordeal of night, the quest for light, the quest to merge the individual into the whole, and the experience of the transcendent forces of nature , all of which enter into dialogue, as does the relationship with nature before and after the cataclysm of the First World War.
Practical information
Beyond the starsat the Musée d'Orsay
March14 to June 25, 2017
Location: Musée d'Orsay
Opening hours: 9:30am-6pm, closed Mondays, Thursday night until 9:45pm
Admission: €12 full price, €9 concessions
Please note that it's been over 4 years since our last visit, so the place and experience may have changed.
Dates and Opening Time
From March 14, 2017 to June 25, 2017
Location
Musée d'Orsay
62 rue de Lille
75007 Paris 7
Prices
tarif réduit: €9
tarif plein: €12
More information
Opening hours: 9.30am-6pm, closed Mondays, Thursday night until 9.45pm
