by Jon Lackman | 25 October 2006 | Modern, Museums
“Ten years ago, when I spoke of a Girodet exhibition project, everyone confused him with Géricault,” said Sylvaine Bellenger, who organized “Girodet, Romantic Rebel.” Last week, the survey was in Montreal for the last stop on its tour. Today, the bizarrerie for which David’s student was once penalized now works in his favor. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has organized a November symposium featuring Robert Rosenblum, Thomas Crow and Whitney Davis. Last spring, Brooks Beaulieu reviewed the exhibition and its catalog: “Girodet was the most creatively and unpredictably subversive of all of David’s students … one is constantly struck by the singular restlessness and capriciousness of Girodet’s mind … Girodet seems forever wary of trapping himself within a single artistic or narrative style, or even within a uniform visionary art, no matter how bizarre the imagery may be.”
