L'ange du foyer - Musical Interpretation

Painted in 1937 by Max Ernst while he was living in France, The Angel of the Hearth emerges in a climate of rising totalitarianism and pre–World War II anxiety. Through violent irony, Ernst twists the reassuring image of the guardian angel of the home into a convulsive, monstrous creature, symbolizing a civilization that gives birth to its own madness. The work portrays war not as a distant event, but as an inner transformation of humanity and society, where reason collapses and chaos becomes uncontrollable. This music follows that trajectory: an initial unease, followed by the emergence of an relentless, unstoppable march, mirroring a war set in motion with no return. Gradually, the instruments break free, madness takes over, and a grotesque distance appears — where violence becomes so absurd that it borders on irony. Composed & produced by Raphaël Fabregat Software : Logic Pro