Mediterranean
from Courbet to Monet to Matisse
Palazzo Ducale, the Doge's apartment
27 November 2010 - May 1, 2011
Painting the sea, its vastness, the idea of infinity and yet also close to you it occurs, is something that assume significance in the nineteenth century easily forgotten.
To the north are deeply spiritual visions of Friedrich or flickering and storms of magmatic Turner, south of the Mediterranean coast, and of course its immediate hinterland of Provence, is the meeting point of several generations of French painters, surely five that the scope of classicism and realism first and then, you tend to the dissolution of the wonderful color in the field of Bonnard near the border with half of the twentieth century.
The exhibition at Palazzo Ducale want to study, using about 80 paintings from museums and collections around the world, this magical journey into the color, so that Van Gogh did write: "changing colors, You never know whether it is green or purple, you never know if it is blue, because the second shot after the reflection has taken on a gray or pink tint. "
Yet the French Mediterranean coast was imposed after a considerable delay in the perception that the painters had the landscape at this beginning of the nineteenth century, just when Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes published his famous treatise on the representation of nature. Persisted the idea that the concept of the Mediterranean close to the sense of antiquity and was first to Romania. So the reference to the Italian coast, such places for this to go back to the ancient, dominated the paint. A key contribution to a first change, after the paintings Robert Vernet eighteenth century and from which the exhibition begins, came to Camille Corot, who after a brief stay in Provence in 1834, he returned two years later with his friend Prosper Marilhat painter, so as to paint some views of the area of Avignon very significant. At this time of realism can be certainly ascribed to the works of Émile Félix Ziem and Loubon, with their pictures made around Marseille, Nice and Antibes.
well as those of Paul Guigou and Adolphe Monticelli, of course, along with those wonderful paintings of Gustave Courbet, especially from the small fishing village of Palavas in the area of Montpellier. At this time of the first shows it happens a second, that in which some major damage on behalf of Impressionism, in many pictures sublime, their visits or long stays in Provence and along the Mediterranean coast. From Cézanne to Monet, from Renoir to Cezanne to Van Gogh Boudin since the seventies that has cultivated a space, be it the sea or the forest, such as the birth of a continuous, ever-new beauty. Renoir, Cézanne painted his neighbor, between 1882 and 1883, beautiful views of nature. And yet the net twice during Monet (in the show with a dozen works) in 1884 in Bordighera, between Antibes and Menton in 1888, when the sea is like a carpet of precious stones.
And then two years of Van Gogh's Provence Years immediately followed by those of post impressionism which are mainly in Signac between Saint-Tropez and Antibes their spearhead. But Van Rijsselberghe, Cross, Valtat, Guillaumin, Manguin, Camoin just to say a few. And in a light French are primarily those paintings that Munch painted in Nice, during a recovery period, between 1891 and 1892, almost all paintings in private hands. The section devoted to the painting of the Fauves is certainly significant, with paintings by Matisse, Derain, Marquet, Braque, Friesz, Dufy, in that they indicate how the Mediterranean, only a few decades later, is something almost completely different visions of Courbet. Already fully into the modernity of a century which was just opening up. And that in region of Provence, and on the shores of the Mediterranean, will continue with the examples in the exhibition of Felix Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard and Chaim Soutine, the painter who more than anyone else has been able to deliver the stunning Monet lesson in the new century.
HOURS Monday-Friday: 9-19
Saturday and Sunday: 9-20
Closed 24, 25, 31 December 2010
January 1, 2011: at 10-20
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Palazzo Ducale Piazza Matteotti 9 16123 Genoa
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The schedule of exhibitions to pay 9.00 to 19.00 from Tuesday to Sunday, closed Mondays.
The ticket office is open from 9.00 to 18.30.
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