Da Monet a Matisse. French Moderns 1850–1950

When: December 16, 2023 - May 12, 2024

Place: Padova, Palazzo Zabarella
Region: Veneto

Da Monet a Matisse. French Moderns 1850–1950

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At Palazzo Zabarella in Padua, the spotlight is on French modernism with the exhibition 'From Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850–1950', organized in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum and open from December 16, 2023, to May 12, 2024. The exhibition features 59 works from the European collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

Already a protagonist in the Italian artistic and cultural scene, Palazzo Zabarella reaffirms its role in an international dialogue with prestigious institutions. Before a rich series of collaborations with world-renowned institutions unfolds over time in exclusive events, Palazzo Zabarella starts with Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Museum in New York was established in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library Association and boasts a permanent collection of over 140,000 objects, spanning from Egyptian art to contemporary works.

It is the second-largest art museum in New York and one of the largest in the United States, pioneering among American collecting institutions and recognized as a major repository of French modernism in North America.

The curation is entrusted to two members of the talented staff of the New York museum: Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Art, and Richard Aste, former Curator of European Art, Brooklyn Museum. They have selected masterpieces of painting and sculpture for the exhibition from the museum's collection, including works by Morisot, Pierre Bonnard, William Bouguereau, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Gabriele Münter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Yves Tanguy, Édouard Vuillard, Auguste Rodin, and many others, totaling 45 masters.... read the rest of the article»

"From Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850–1950" tells the story of one of the most captivating centuries in art history when artists moved away from academic artistic traditions to focus on subjects from everyday life. But it's more than that; it also celebrates France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.

Their works represent avant-garde movements that defined modern art from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, marking a formal and conceptual shift from the representation of the pictorial to the evocation of the idea, from a focus on naturalism to the rise of abstraction.

The exhibition includes examples of key movements of the period - realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism, fauvism, cubism, and surrealism - that emerged in Paris and its surroundings between 1850 and 1950, quickly becoming part of the dominant Western canon.