Organized in collaboration with the Fondation Mucha, the Hôtel de Caumont dedicates this year its winter exhibition to the great master of the new art, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). This prolific and visionary artist revolutionized the relationship with art of his contemporaries by applying his aesthetic, so characteristic, to multiple areas such as posters, The advertisement, interior decoration or the Belle Époque theater. Through almost 120 works from the Mucha Foundation, this exhibition highlights all the splendor and evolution of the Mucha style where mysticism, symbolism, Slavic identity and beauty coexist.

This exhibition aims to show not only how Mucha’s work, mixing different aesthetics, is fundamentally committed, but also how the use and appeal of beauty are imbued with symbolism and mysticism. Mucha, for whom art has a universal character, attempts to assert his artistic intentions in his work. In addition to the evolution of Mucha's graphic style and the mystical inspiration of his visual language, the exhibition highlights the artist's committed thinking as a constituent element of his works imbued with beauty and harmony.

Alongside the most appreciated works of the time revealing Mucha as the greatest representative of Art Nouveau (like the famous advertising posters including those made for Sarah Bernhardt as well as the famous decorative panels), you can admire the artist’s paintings, rarely shown, through a symbolist and allegorical reading. The exhibition also reveals his little-known work in photography, both in his studio in fin-de-siecle Paris but also through the documentary and staged photographs that he produced as part of his research for his series of monumental paintings to glorify the history of his people The Slavic Epic.

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