De chair et de papier: le personnage féminin chez Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Keywords:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, Préraphaélisme, PersonnageAbstract
Dans sa peinture comme à travers son écriture, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) questionne la notion même de personnage en proposant plusieurs interprétations possibles : dans ses illustrations de jeunesse, le personnage se présente comme un double, une projection psychique qui trouve à travers le dessin une étrange matérialité. Cette alliance entre réalisme et idéalisme atteint son apogée dans les œuvres picturales de la maturité, avant que l'équilibre ne se rompe à nouveau dans les derniers tableaux, où l'effet de la peinture l'emporte sur toute tentative de figuration. A travers l'art de Rossetti, cet article tente de tester la validité de théories récentes sur le personnage lorsqu'elles sont appliquées à la réception d'un dispositif complexe comme celui du texte-tableau.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's double works of art and his overall artistic career all point to a recurrent question: what is character? How does one create a character in poetry as opposed to painting? Can one build a « Venus surrounded by mirrors reflecting her in different views » as he famously expressed in an 1863 note? This article attempts to unravel Rossetti's complex picturing of character and analyse his various attempts in writing and painting as so many ways of pinning down the elusiveness of female character. By using recent French literary criticism on character theory, it shows how Rossetti's achievement finds its source in literature as well as in his personal and original visual imagination.
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