Art Of The Day Weekly

Rubens, a monument

BRUSSELS – We all remember the success of the retrospective called «Picasso et les maîtres» that aimed at unveiling the historic roots in Picasso’s art. This exhibition works in the other way, i.e.it studies - as was recently done for the Greco at the Prado –the influence of an old master on the generations that followed. In the case of Rubens, there is more than enough to choose from. His influence can be seen of course in the work of his disciple Van Dyck. But not only. Watteau, Delacroix, Carpeaux and even Kokoschka all betray traces from the great master. By declaring that “Rubens was the Quentin Tarantino of his time”, the organisers really created an upheaval in an overly discreet baroque. Power and poetry are some of the themes explored among the 160 works and of course, lust, not to be forgotten. Rubens was a painter of flesh who conditioned four centuries of nude and eroticism.
• Sensation et sensualité, Rubens et son héritage at Bozar, from 25 Septembre 2014 to 4 January 2015.

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