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Through May. "Monet Installation." The Museum's entire collection of paintings by Claude Monet will be installed in the impressionist galleries for the first time in nearly 20 years. No institution outside of France holds a larger collection of paintings by Monet than the MFA. The installation will be complimented by a selection of works by other impressionists such as Renoir, Degas, Manet and Gauguin...
Through May. Ongoing. "Monet Installation...
Created by the Met's Gary Tinterow and the French art historian Henri Loyrette, chief curator of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, it has drawn in an astonishing number of major works -- nearly 30 Manets; more than that number of Monets; and work by a whole gamut of artists from Renoir to Cezanne and Whistler, from Frederic Bazille to academicians like Jean-Leon Gerome and even William Bouguereau. It focuses on the early years of the movement, the 1860s, before "New Painting" became controversial with the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. It asks, What formed Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir...
...much the decision to paint the world "as they saw it" that made Impressionism; it was the way of painting it, which came out of Manet and reached its most brilliant expression as color in Monet. Manet perfected a graphic style in which the half tones that offered smooth transitions between high light and deep dark were suppressed; hence the critics' complaints of sketchiness and flatness. But this engaged the eye more, forcing it to assemble continuity from extremes of light and dark...
...variety of movements gathered awards and national recognition without ever achieving the international fame of the masters who influenced his work. For years, Farndon heightened his sense of the delicate harmony of pastel pinks, blues and light greens that modified the color scales made popular by such notables as Monet and the atmospheric exuberance of Renoir before darkening his palette to imitate the growing popularity of the post-impressionists...