"Pour un plafond : ô ces voix d'enfants chantant sous la coupole!": Maurice Denis au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 1908-1913

• Autores: Jean-Paul Bouillon
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 187, 2015, págs. 69-82
• Idioma: francés
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  • Maurice Denis in the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, 1908-1913.

    The Théatre des Champs Elysées, whose centennial was celebrated in 2013, has long held an important place in the history of 20th century architecture, due to the contribution of its two principal architects, Henry van de Velde and Auguste Perret. On the other hand, the decoration remains underestimated, especially the cupola of the great hall painted by Maurice Denis, often judged to be an adventitious or even passeist element compared to the modernity of the architecture. In light especially of new documents, this study allows Maurice Denis to be repositioned in the heart of the process of the creation of the theater, from conception to realization. The very cupola, integral part of the initial project, bringing together a dense and complex iconography, provides the keys to the significance of the whole project, led by Denis and his friend Gabriel Thomas, in the perspective of an iconological approach, a particularly significant example of the closely woven play of form and content, of the research into style and the ideological implications, at a pivotal moment in the history of French art.