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Item Number: 124665
Title: Verso MONET: Storia del paesaggio dal Seicento al Novecento
Author: Goldin, Marco
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788836626281
Description: Verona: Linea d'Ombra Libri, 2013. 29cm., hardcover, 464pp., 150 color illus. Exhibition held at Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona. Summary: The exhibition will be divided into six sections to describe the key moments in the narration of nature as an independent phenomenon, separate from figurative painting. That kind of emancipation of the image when the landscape is no longer simply background scenery but is centre stage as a dominating, absolute divinity. The exhibition will thus examine the most significant stages in a development that was to become increasingly important in the history of art and eventually became so mainstream that the nineteenth century was rightly dubbed “the century of nature”. Without stretching its scope as far as the umpteen minor, fragmentary experiments, the exhibition will concentrate on the principal currents. That is why the title highlights the idea of the enormous change introduced by Claude Monet in the second half of the 1860s, when he was busy painting in the Forest of Fontainebleau. By the various “series” in the 1890s and his last Water Lilies Monet had abandoned the albeit noble sense of reality which he and Corot had inherited from a centuries-old tradition, also featured in this exhibition. He thus broke new ground by depicting landscapes almost entirely from inner experience, although without ever neglecting reality. This paved the way to some of the finest new examples of nature paintings in the twentieth century. Monet is thus seen as having provided the paradigm of the new landscape, the point of crossing, bridging before and after. That is why his works account for almost a third of the whole exhibition.
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