‘Lecture d’un tableau’ pour déchiffrer les canons esthétiques du romantisme littéraire ? Interférence(s) littérature-peinture
‘Reading a Painting’ to Decipher the Aesthetic Canons of Literary of the Romanticism? Interference(s) Literature Painting

Summary/Abstract: Our approach questions the relationship between literature and painting in the Romantic period. Thanks to Théodore Géricault's painting, Le Radeau de La Méduse (artist – master of Romantic art of the first half of the 19th century) we investigate the formation of the aesthetic canons of this artistic-literary current. The supports of our semiotic endeavour are the relevant considerations on the roles and functions of images, advertising or not, made by Martin Joly and Alain Joannès. The conclusion would be that a painting can be 'read', because it will always have a hidden text; it is perceptible thanks to the details that the initiated viewer knows how to see beyond the image that carries meaning. What you don't see is a thousand times more intriguing.

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