19th Century Painting Responds

Various Attempts to Destroy 19th Century Paris

NightCafe / Met(a)wurst, 2022

Gustave Courbet’s painting, A Burial at Ornans sinks to the bottom of the Seine 

in 19th century Paris.

StarryAI / Met(a)wurst, 2022

With the exception of these clumsily restored images, contemporary painting presents scant record of these cataclysmic events. The artistic response was seemingly limited to vague allegory and ambiguous pictorialism ... 

Géricault's painting, The Raft of The Medusa explodes in flames as 

the Louvre burns in 19th century Paris. Delacroix aghast. 

NightCafe / Met(a)wurst, 2022

restoration ...