Carl Gustav Jung said: “There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion”. Emotions drive us, drown us and lift us. Emotions are life. Therefore if one truly wants to capture life, one needs to capture emotions. And what could be more representative of emotions than the looks, postures, and gestures contained in the human emotion? The exhibition “Artistic Expressions” displayed at the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais (Paris), features sixty paintings spanning from the fifteenth to the twentieth-century made by different artists in a range of styles. The paintings are grouped into eight categories covering emotions from tenderness associated with an early childhood to ordeals of adolescence, sprinkled with laughter, soddened with melancholy and ultimately balancing between power and fear. The circle of life. Love and Death. The theme of tenderness opens the exhibition. Maternal tenderness is showcased through the painting b...