Milan spoil us, Arcimboldo, the museum's collection of 900 and now Robert and Francine Clark.
From America 73 works (including Renoir 39) Clark's collection on display at the Royal Palace until 19 June.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Girl crochet, about 1875
The Impressionist Collection in Milan Clark There is an artistic movement that enjoys the greatest fortunes of Impressionism. No mystery, in fact, between the public and the Impressionists the feeling is immediate: the filter of knowledge, while desired, is not necessary. We can only open up your eyes and let go, like watching a mirror that reflects the symbols of Western identity more enjoyable.
All too easy to foresee a boom in attendance for the exhibition of Impressionist masterpieces of the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA) at the Palazzo Reale in Milan from March 2 to June 19. Absolute level of 73 works in journey to the world because The museum is closed for expansion work. So after the Milan show, the works will go to France, the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny July 13 to October 31), then in Spain, Barcelona CaixaForum (18 November to 12 February 2012) and then in major international museums.
The list of artists and those to raise the wind, and alone is enough to reveal the extent EXPOSURE: Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, Jean- Baptiste-Camille Corot, Paul Gauguin, Jean-François Millet, Alfred Sisley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme Stop time not to mention them all.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Blond Bather, 1881
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait of Madame Monet (Madame Monet in reading), 1874 about
A real trip 800 in France, including the Impressionists, but even among those artists who opposed the practice, such as academic William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alfred Stevens, then the works of those who consider the history of art natural predecessors, such as "barbizonniers" Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet
, and Theodore Rousseau. And yet, the works of those artists who learned the lesson of Impressionism and interpreted in the light of changing times, such as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Alfred Sisley The Loing at Moret and mills - Eff ect of snow, 1891
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Girl with fan, 1879 about
James Tissot Chrysanthemums, 1874-1876 about
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Carmen, 1884
Pierre-Auguste Renoir The stage in the theater (the concert), 1880
Edgar Degas Dancers in Ballet Class, 1880
Camille The Oise at Pontoise Pissarro, 1873
The exhibition's curator, Richard Rand (Senior Curator at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) organized with the expert advice of Stephen Zuffi a path into ten sections focus on the fundamental issues that bear witness stylistic innovations and techniques in the second half of the nineteenth century, but also the custom, optimism, the quest for beauty. are crossed so the impression and the light, as crucial to the birth of the movement, the nature, the sea, the city and the countryside, travel, body, faces the company and pleasures.
THE STORY OF A PASSION
Exactly a century ago, in 1911, the American Robert Sterling Clark, heir to the wealth produced by the Singer sewing machines, he moved to Paris, after a childhood full of adventure and success. The passion for art, shared by his wife Francine, resulting in a highly sensitive task of collecting: highly selected masterpieces of Renaissance masters, beware of the so-called applied arts, support for American painters, and, above all, a thorough and careful selection of French paintings of the nineteenth century.
Sterling and Francine Clark lived in Paris at the center of cultural life and the art market, so their choices were not based - as in other collections across the Atlantic - on impromptu reports or random chance, associated with occasional trips to Europe . On the contrary, the couple have built a collection of exciting impressionist paintings (Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas and Renoir's favorite), but at the same time widened the field to the precursor to the development of the Impressionist movement and follow along the arch three generations of artists between 1830 and 1900, 70 years defined by the names of Corot and Bonnard.
Camille Corot Bathers of the Borromean Islands, 1865-1870
Édouard Manet Interior at Arcachon, 1871
The works shown below, therefore, the characteristic of the Clark collection, presenting yes some undisputed masterpieces, but making them part of an organic path that does not "island" gems, but rather part of the development of styles, movements, research.
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