(x 4) Artist's and friends Lectures in Museums and galleries | 2019 - present
Lecture EROTIC ART by Thierry Savatier (3 parts)
Lecture L'ART ÉROTIQUE (eroticized representation in Western art) by Thierry Savatier, Art Historian and world specialist of the work of Gustave Courbet, during the exhibition of Jean-Pierre Sergent "4 PILLARS OF THE SKY". Filmed by Lionel Georges, Louise Prevel, Léa Bruckert and Jean-Pierre Sergent in the conference room of the Museum of Fine Arts, Besançon on September 19, 2020.
Thierry Savatier evokes works of erotic art from Prehistory (Venus of Willendorf (22.000 B.C.), the Scene of the well of Lascaux (18.000. B.C.) until the Renaissance with The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1484) and The Three Graces by Raphael (1504) etc.
Thierry Savatier evokes works of erotic art from the Renaissance: The Vulva (16th) by Leonardo da Vinci (16th), Lucas Cranach, La Nymphe à la source (1537) until the 19th century with the works of Jean-Baptiste Clésinger: La Femme piquée par un serpent, (1847) Le Sommeil (1866) and L'Origine du monde (1866) by Gustave Courbet etc.
Thierry Savatier evokes the works of erotic arts by Picasso, L'Etreinte (1969) and Raphael et la Fornarina (1968) through Thérèse rêvant (1938) by Balthus, Dirty Corner (2015) by Anish Kapoor etc. To finish with the series with the Entropic Suites n°22 & 26 (2011-2015) by Jean-Pierre Sergent.