Portrait de l’artiste en clown

Clowns and acrobats become metaphors for the condition of the modern artist. As Jean Starobinski points out: The jester, the acrobat and the clown were the hyperbolic and deliberately distorting images that artists tended to give of themselves. This is a disguised self-portrait.
From Watteau to Cindy Sherman, a grand parade that allows us to discover or rediscover all these representations proposed by artists through the figure of the clown.

Ondine Roman – Lecturer:
Professor of art history at Ville Thiole, Municipal School of Plastic Arts in Nice.