Exhibition: The Algerian heritage at the Arab World Institute

Collection title

19 20. Edition nationale

ID

INA00536

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

10/18/2003

Production year

2003

Abstract

The Arab World Institute closed the Year of Algeria with an exhibition featuring the paintings of the greatest painters inspired by the colonial policy of France. The conquest of Algeria has fed the exotic and Oriental dreams of the painters but painting was also used as war propaganda... Some painters like Chasseriau show the cruelty of war, and this artist will be able to show also all the nobility of the leader Abdelkader. Eugene Fromentin paints the daily life, the desert and the Nomads. Auguste Renoir succumbs to the charms of the Oriental mode and restores the light, aesthetics and brilliance of Algeria. Comments on factual pictures alternating with the interview of Stéphane Guegand, curator of the exhibition.

Type

video

Production companies

• France 3 - Own production

Broadcaster

FTV - F3

Audiovisual form

News

Primary theme

Painting

Secondary themes

• Historical heritages / Arab and muslim worlds

Credits / Cast

• Hazard Joelle - Journalist
• Guégan Stéphane - Participant

Period of events

• From 1800 to 1850

Map locations

• Algeria - Centre

Original language

French

Media running time

2m18

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