The Royal Academy's intelligent, instructive new show Impressionism Abroad examines this phenomenon in more detail. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has lent 57 works, both French and American, collected by Bostonians and later bequeathed to the museum. Highlights of the show include a bevy of Monet landscapes. The muted tones of his Snow at Argenteuil (1874) is a particular gem. There are also some very lovely pictures by seascapist Eugène Boudin. Manet, however, provides the only out-and-out masterpiece: The Street Singer (1862). As a creature of the city, the subject of this picture bucks the rural-only rule and towers, life-size, utterly magnificent and inscrutable, over the final room.
'Impressionism Abroad' is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London W1 (020 7300 8000), until Sept 11.
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"Impressionists Abroad" at the RA
While the vast majority of European art collectors of the 19th century continued to fixate on the traditional, academic style of painting, with its predilection for semi-clad nymphs and pedagogic history scenes, in America it was a different story. There, the radical art coming out of France, Impressionism most significantly, found an enthusiastic and committed market. And nowhere was this more true than in Boston, a city grown fat on international commerce, whose cultured inhabitants have always maintained a particular interest in the styles and trends of Europe.
The Royal Academy's intelligent, instructive new show Impressionism Abroad examines this phenomenon in more detail. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has lent 57 works, both French and American, collected by Bostonians and later bequeathed to the museum. Highlights of the show include a bevy of Monet landscapes. The muted tones of his Snow at Argenteuil (1874) is a particular gem. There are also some very lovely pictures by seascapist Eugène Boudin. Manet, however, provides the only out-and-out masterpiece: The Street Singer (1862). As a creature of the city, the subject of this picture bucks the rural-only rule and towers, life-size, utterly magnificent and inscrutable, over the final room.
'Impressionism Abroad' is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London W1 (020 7300 8000), until Sept 11.
For the full story - click the title
Irish Art
The Royal Academy's intelligent, instructive new show Impressionism Abroad examines this phenomenon in more detail. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has lent 57 works, both French and American, collected by Bostonians and later bequeathed to the museum. Highlights of the show include a bevy of Monet landscapes. The muted tones of his Snow at Argenteuil (1874) is a particular gem. There are also some very lovely pictures by seascapist Eugène Boudin. Manet, however, provides the only out-and-out masterpiece: The Street Singer (1862). As a creature of the city, the subject of this picture bucks the rural-only rule and towers, life-size, utterly magnificent and inscrutable, over the final room.
'Impressionism Abroad' is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London W1 (020 7300 8000), until Sept 11.
For the full story - click the title
Irish Art
