Jean-Léon Gérome’s Paintings
Allumeuse de Narghilé by Jean_Léon Gérome
(1824 _ 1904)
When your average individual thinks of “stoner art”, it’’s far more likely to bring to mind visions of long moments studying album artwork (for those old enough to remember LP’’s), or perhaps psychedelic posters promoting rock concerts. That pretty accurately describes our own feelings and knowledge of cannabis related art until fairly recently. Very few individuals would associate Cannabis with classic oil paintings, let alone the work of an artist who could be associated with Monet and Renoir. But it’’s all true. Believe it or not, the “good old days” for stoner art might have been 100 years earlier than any of us ever thought.
In studying our Cannabis history, we’’ve learned that Napoleon’’s armies helped to spread Hashish to France and the European continent after discovering it’’s medicinal (and recreational) effects while occupying Egypt and portions of the Middle-East. We’’ve also learned that our favorite herb had a greater impact on French culture than any of our high school teachers would ever have admitted.
In this post we display two works by Jean-Lééon Géérome, a student of famous Swiss painter and teacher Charles Gleyre. More famous students who studied under Gleyre included Monet, Renoir, Bazille and Whistler. So it doesn’’t take playing “Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon” to connect Géérome to some very well known names in the highbrow art world.
Our old history and literature books might have delivered a sanitized and safe version of events for students, but the Cannabis Chronicles and the 3LB’’s remained determined to uncover the naked truth about art and literature influenced by our favorite herb.
Tags: Allumeuse de Narghilé, art & cannabis, cannabis, Cannabis history, Events, harem, harem bath, hashish, history, history, hookah, Jean-Lééon Géérome, stoner
The Harem Bath by Jean-Lééon Géérome
(1824 -1904)
You must be logged in to post a comment.