We watched with interest the documentary series from BCC about Claude Monet, Renoir, Manet, Degas, Cezanne. Strange people — especially Cezanne — with their quirks, but unique and in many ways revolutionary. You can partly see the parallels — the attitude towards contemporary art now and how impressionism was perceived at the end of the 19th century. The film is shot like a drama, but essentially it’s a retelling of biographies. Colorful, rich, emotional, informative.
This year I managed to visit the “Monet, Rodin, and Boston” exhibition, as well as several art museums just a few days prior, in Washington, two in New York, one in Providence, and of course, the Boston one. So the memories are still fresh.
I’m concurrently reading the book “Falling in Love with Art: From Rembrandt to Andy Warhol” by Anastasiia Postrigai. And just as I was watching the series, I was on the chapters about Monet and Manet. So I was looking at the events from two perspectives 🙂
I highly recommend both.
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