Exposition, Eaux-Fortes et Méandres

Exposition, Eaux-Fortes et Méandres is the 8th album released by the French darkwave band Collection d'Arnell Andréa.

The concept for the album is based on pianist Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition piano suite, which in Mussorgsky created 10 different piano songs based on Russian artist Viktor Hartmann.

[1] These paintings had darker themes and included works from Arnold Böcklin's Isle of the Dead, Edward Robert Hughes, and John Everett Millais's Ophelia.

The album cover art and title track, Les Méandres, are based on Richard Boutin's 1999 painting Crepuscule sur la Loire.

The songs feature vocals, guitar, keyboards, cello, and viola, but also synthesizers and electronic beats.

The track l'eau des Mauves was inspired by Millais's painting Ophelia.
The track The Island of the Dead was inspired by Böcklin's painting Isle of the Dead.