WHY DON’T WE LIKE THE WAR ANYMORE?

Until the nineteenth century, war was central to the values of our societies, it was one of the foundations of patriotism, one gave his life for his nation, his king, his emperor and one died a hero.
It was not until the early Napoleonic campaigns (1803 to 1815) of mass conflict to cause a break in the aesthetics of the representation of war. Since then, art has invited us to rethink the war differently and artists - writers, painters and poets – have seized the opportunity to tell its absurdity and its consequences, both on mankind and his environment.

From May the 28th until October the 6th, "The Disasters of war" tells how conflict after conflict, disaster after disaster, smooth and heroic war imagery has faded to reveal the war in its true form: an incarnation of horror.
450 works in all media: painting , sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, film, video, Épinal print, press, posters, objects, etc. and more than 200 artists including : Géricault, Goya, Daumier, Dix, Vallotton, Léger, Picasso, Richter, Villeglé, Combas and Pei-Ming - will be exposed. 

Organized in twelve chronological sequences, the exhibition "The Disasters of War" allows us to understand how each conflict generated a language and a world of new images. This concern was both about the effective time of war and the aftermath cessation of the war with its disastrous effects on bodies and souls.