Pinxit – Collection of Curiosities

A cultural program on painting

Pinxit is a short-form program dedicated to painting, designed to train the eye and explore the hidden meanings behind what the artwork reveals to us.

The program reflects on the way we look at artworks and seeks to define a new visual grammar for their presentation on screen.

Théodore Géricault - "Marche dans le désert" - 1821

Episode 1

Behind the conventional elements of the Napoleonic legend, what emerges is Géricault’s true interest. And it is neither the Egyptian campaign nor even Napoleon himself…

Adolphe Lalire dit "Lalyre" - "Elégante et cavalier au bord d'une rivière" - 1878

Episode 2

The apparent simplicity of this early work conceals a whole symbolic universe, inherited from Antiquity and characteristic of the academic artists of the Belle Époque…

Directed byBastien Robilliard
Written by P. Cinquini & B. Robilliard
MusicManels Favre
Voice overDenis Bolusset-Li