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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