03 — ARTWORK
Entrance
LAVIROTTE, Jules Aimé · 1901 →
- MEDIUM
- Photo
- TYPE
- Other
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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The façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. of the building has a sculpted, animal and vegetal decoration, containing sexual symbolismAn artistic movement that arose in France toward the end of the nineteenth century, primarily in literature, in opposition to the reigning schools of Realism and Impressionism. Symbolism rejected objectivity in favour of the subjective, and turned away from the direct representation of reality in favour of a synthesis of many different aspects of it, aiming to suggest ideas by means of ambiguous yet powerful symbols. Among the artists associated with the movement were Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau and Puvis de Chavannes in France, Fernand Khnopff in Belgium, Jan Toorop in Holland, Ferdinand Hodler in Switzerland, Gustave Klimt in Austria, and Giovanni Segantini in Italy. evident even in the entrance. The phallus on the door panelling and the vaginal surround obviously represent a sexual act - a vision that is repeated several times in the building.
CITE THIS RECORD — BIBTEX
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Entrance by LAVIROTTE, Jules Aimé},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lavirotte-jules-aim-rf8d45f0e9eee49/entrance-r4ef9643e62b553},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
OTHER WORKS BY JULES AIMÉ LAVIROTTE
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