Nu Pompier, with l'art pompier. Photograph by Jeanloup Sieff (French, 1933-2000), Paris, 1956.L'art
Nu Pompier, with l'art pompier. Photograph by Jeanloup Sieff (French, 1933-2000), Paris, 1956.L'art pompier, literally “Fireman Art”, is a derisive late-19th-century French term for large “official” academic art paintings of the time, especially historical or allegorical ones. It also suggests half-puns in French with Pompéin (“from Pompeii”), and pompeux (“pompous”). Pompier art was seen by those who used the term as the epitome of the values of the bourgeoisie, and as insincere and overblown. -- source link
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