1/23/2024 0 Comments Monet columbus museum of art![]() However, as the organizing curator Professor Richard Thomson (University of Edinburgh) explained in an interview, the “new” which Monet and Architecture brings to the scholarship and the attention of visitors, is a reappraisal of Monet’s pictorial practice through the investigation of the “different aspects and uses of architecture” in his work. To that end, representations of motifs ranging from rustic Dutch windmills to majestic palazzi were thematically categorized under Thomson’s conceptual framework of “The Village & the Picturesque,” “The City & the Modern,” and “The Monument & the Mysterious.” These thematic essays addressed Monet’s responses to a society that was rapidly undergoing transformative political, cultural, and technological changes during his lifetime. As the first monographic exhibition of the Impressionist’s paintings to be staged in London for more than two decades, it justifiably merited the publicity and the unanimous praise in the British press, but the extent of its “unique and surprising” angle might not have been fully appreciated by audiences familiar with the artist’s iconic images of Rouen Cathedral, the Palace of Westminster, and the vast iron-clad roof of the Gare St. Confidently proclaimed in the press release materials as a “rare thing” and a “landmark show,” the exhibition admirably lived up to the marketing hyperbole for the most part. More often identified with his images of landscapes, marine scenes, and gardens, the diverse roles which buildings and manmade structures played in Claude Monet’s art have received considerably less critical attention and hence, the impetus behind The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet and Architecture at the National Gallery. bibliography chronology notes & references index. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018.Ģ48 pp. ![]() ![]() The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet and Architecture
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