{"id":19598,"date":"2022-06-14T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colleensparis.com\/?p=19598"},"modified":"2022-11-09T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:26:06","slug":"marcel-proust-on-his-mothers-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/2022\/06\/marcel-proust-on-his-mothers-side\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufffcMarcel Proust on His Mother\u2019s Side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The \u201cMarcel Proust-Du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la m\u00e8re<\/a>\u201d exhibition has it all: Fake news, social, art and theatrical history, fashion and moral transformations and politics. A more in-depth look at Marcel Proust\u2019s writings is illustrated by the use of the period’s contemporary painters and photographers throughout the exhibition. Their scenes illustrate Proust\u2019s words. There is so much to this exhibit, I recommend you visit to absorb the family history, Proust’s observational history and the intensity of a time machine between the Belle \u00c9poque and the modern life of society and the rich contributions of modern Jewish families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even if you have not read Proust, the exhibit at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art et histoire du Juda\u00efsme (MAHJ) is a voyage through the Belle \u00c9poque, a visit to Venice through the work of Whistler and Monet, Paris with Caillebotte, Normandy with Monet, Manet, Prinet, Helleu, Vuillard, Dufy and van Dongen. In the early 1900\u2019s, Proust figured prominently among artists and aristocrats.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Through social connections and invitations, Marcel Proust (1871-1922) wrote about his observations using fictional characters, based on real life characters. Proust maintained an acquaintance with contemporary artists (Picasso, van Dongen), writers (Cocteau) and theatre producers (Diaghilev, Bakst) who would continue to change the art world through the Great War and into the 1920s. He wrote about and the exhibit shows the independence of women and the changes in gender preferences for both sexes. Proust’s novels In Search of Lost Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Why you should visit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you like history of all sorts in a condensed, detailed form, I highly recommend this exhibit with labels in French and in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The family of Marcel Proust was Catholic. However, Israelite traditions meant that he was considered Jewish on his mother\u2019s side. France was special among other countries in that Jews were integrated into the bourgeoisie society in politics, the economy, social and cultural activities. Still, integration came with its social prejudices held in society toward the Jewish community, which Proust demonstrates in his novels. Another example of the prejudice was the fake news of the Dreyfus Affair<\/a>, well illustrated in the exhibit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition benefits from loans of thirty institutions, including the National Gallery in London, the Louvre, the Mus\u00e9e Carnavalet, the Mus\u00e9e Proust at Illiers-Combray and exceptional loans by the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France and the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information about the MAHJ<\/a> program in English: The exhibit features 150 paintings, drawings, prints and documents, including major works by Monet (one of his favourite painters), Rodin, Bonnard and Vuillard, exhibition illustrates the author\u2019s social life, the committed position he took regarding the Dreyfus Affair, his vision of the homosexual as an alter ego of the Jew, the burgeoning of modernism led by Jewish intellectuals and artists at the beginning of the 20th<\/sup>century, and the question of memory, a central element of Jewish identity and in the writing of In Search of Lost Time. It also evokes the important places in his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition entrance Marcel Proust du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la m\u00e8re at the Mus\u00e9e d’art et histoire du Juda\u00efsme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jeanne Weil Proust helped Proust with translations and editing his writings. She dies in 1905 and Proust’s housekeeper, Celeste, will become his writing editor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Raised Catholic on his father’s side, the family maintained a modern Jewish side on his Proust’s mother’s side. During the Dreyfus affair, his father was anti-Dreyfus, while Proust supported Dreyfus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Claude Monet Le Grand Canal 1908 one of Proust’s favourite painters. “Paris and Venice, Proust’s longed-for place of all desires are the two most important cities in “In Search of Lost Time”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Picasso drawing of In 1917 of Massine, Bakst and Diaghilev 1917. In 1917 Proust attended the Ballets Russes for the penultimate time. He was a fan. The sets, costumes and stage curtain were designed by Picasso whom Proust met through Jean Cocteau <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Proust was a frequent visitor with other bourgeois families of Normandy. Painting of Ren\u00e9 Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Prinet 1910…. Fashion and life would change drastically four years later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Albertine, one of his characters, frequents the baths. Proust does not want to know what “misdemeanour” could possibly take place. Kees van Dongen, Albertine aux douches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Illustration for Proust novel In search of lost time Kees van Dongen – A variety of fashion styles as the times changed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bakst design Bacchante 1911 design for Nijinsky ballet La P\u00e9ri–Proust was quite taken by Nijinsky <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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