Paris museum hires Instagram artist-in-residence Les toiles de maîtres réinterprétées pour l’ère numérique. THE GUARDIAN

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through “contemporary commentaries, fictitious or not, to evoke the adhesions or antagonisms aroused”.

4. Delhomme released a book last year called Artists’ Instagrams: The Never Seen Instagrams of the Greatest Artists, in which he depicted the social media accounts of Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo and Paul Gauguin. “If Instagram had existed a century ago, there would be no art criticism today,” he told the Guardian at the time. “Only thumbs-ups and emojis.”

5. Delhomme, who works in Paris’s Montparnasse district, which was famous as a hub of intellectuals and creatives, said he

adhesion réaction favorable/positive / to arouse susciter, provoquer.

4. to release sortir, publier / time époque, momentlà / thumbs-up pouce levé/vers le haut.

5. hub centre, haut lieu / wanted to focus on artists who were famous to the “point of creating mythologies around themselves”.

6. He said: “That’s what was fun about it. They’re the gods of art. It’s like doing the Instagram of Mount Olympus. Artists want to be seen – even the most serious ones. Why wouldn’t they show off like everyone else? That element was always there, but with these social platforms it’s just irresistible.”

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7. Orsay was widely praised last year for its ground-breaking exhibition Black Models: From Géricault to Matisse, which displayed

to focus on se concentrer/mettre l'accent sur, étudier, mettre en lumière / mythology mythe.

6. even même / to show, showed, showed or shown off se mettre en valeur/avant.

7. widely par beaucoup / to praise applaudir (fig.) / ground-breaking révolutionnaire, novateur, innovant / to display exposer, présenter /

French masterpieces but renamed them in honour of the black subjects in the pictures but absent from the narratives. O

masterpiece chef-d’oeuvre / narrative récit, histoire.