Masterpieces by 19th century French masters including Manet, Degas and Gauguin are to go on show from October 29 in the northern city of Treviso.
"Stories of Impressionism. The great protagonists from Monet to Renoir, from Van Gogh to Cezanne" presents approximately 140 works from public and private collections in the Museum of Santa Caterina until April 17, 2017. The exhibition, curated by Marco Goldin, is divided into six sections and "has a strong didactic intention", according to the art critic. The aim is not just to illustrate "the half century running from the mid 1800s to the earliest part of the 20th century, but also how much painting in France produced," Goldin explained. The curator has therefore striven to place French Impressionism in its historical context, with special attention given to the evolution of portrait painting, the relationship between man and nature as embodied by the theme of the garden, still life, landscape painting, the crisis within the movement and the obsession of Cezanne with geometric form that made the artist from Provence a forerunner of Modernism. The Treviso exhibition is divided into the following six sections: 1) The Gaze and Silence, exploring portrait painting from Ingres and Delacroix to Degas and Gauguin; 2) Figures 'En Plein Air', from Millet to Renoir; 3) Things In Pose, or rather, still lifes from Manet to Cezanne; 4) The New Desire for Nature, that is the passage from Corot to Van Gogh; 5) The Crisis and Evolution of Monet who denies his own theories and rarefies his subjects in his studio, evoking the abstract painting of the future; 6) Lastly, The Germs of the New World, that is the extreme years of Cezanne, who almost anticipates Picasso and the avant-garde.
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