150th Anniversary of Impressionism: Celebrating Decentralization and Regional Exhibitions

2023-11-25 21:31:29

In 2024, impressionism will celebrate its 150th anniversary. This movement, born in France in the followingmath of the terrible war of 1870 between France and Germany, was a movement of rupture, in opposition to academic art. Initially misunderstood and rejected, he established himself in a few decades by proposing an innovative artistic vision while placing art in a contemporary context. Conveying the image of the French art of living and a sensitive nature, it also testifies to the arrival of the 20th century and modernity, with their technical, social and societal developments.
For the 100th anniversary of Impressionism, in 1974, a major exhibition was organized in Paris bringing together the most beautiful works of the movement at the Grand Palais. At the time, major exhibitions were reserved for Paris and the Gare d’Orsay had not yet been reclassified as a museum. Today, the works loaned by the Musée d’Orsay travel to the great delight of provincials.

The benefits of decentralization

For 150 years of Impressionism, the exhibition Paris, 1874. Inventing impressionism announced as being of unequaled scale, will bring together at the Musée D’Orsay works by Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Sisley and Pissarro but also by Degas and Cézanne. As part of the decentralization programs, the museum will lend one hundred and seventy-eight works to thirty-four partner institutions from thirteen regions, including the Roger Quilliot Art Museum which is currently preparing the exhibition Snow announced from March 8 to June 30, 2024.

Table The foot by Claude Monet loaned to MARQ

The Impressionists were the first painters to reveal the “dazzling and marvelous character” of snow, a weather phenomenon now greatly impacted by climate change. They had defined a new way of treating it by working on light and color. Table The foot by Claude Monet, which will be exceptionally loaned by the Musée d’Orsay, perfectly illustrates the impressionist representation of snow. The other loans will illustrate how Daubigny, Claude, Luce, Lebourg, Bonnard painted snow in Paris and Normandy and for some of them in Auvergne, influencing regional centers of painting such as the Murol School including Victor Charreton, (who used pink to paint snow), is one of the most famous representatives.

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