Monet/Boudin offers us, for the first time, the opportunity to discover the relationship between the great Impressionist painter Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 -Giverny, 1926) and his teacher Eugène Boudin (Honfleur, 1824 - Deauville, 1898), a leading representative of French open-air painting in the mid-19th century. The joint presentation of their work aims not only to shed light on Monet's period of apprenticeship, but also on the careers of both artists as a whole and on the very origins of the Impressionist movement. Curated by Juan Ángel López Manzanares, curator of the Thyssen Museum, Monet/Boudin brings together around one hundred works by the two painters, and shows how Boudin's initial mastery turned towards the end of his career into profound admiration for his disciple's audacity, which he sometimes adopted as his own. Among their common artistic interests, the exhibition emphasises their mutual attraction to the iconography of modern life - captured in scenes of holidaymakers on the beach at Trouville - to the changing effects of light - which featured in most of the pastels and oil paintings by both painters - and, finally, to the semi-wild nature of the cliffs on the coasts of Brittany and Normandy.
Spanish
Hardcover Binding
ISBN: 9788417173180
Dimensions: 22.5 x 25.5 cm
264 pages
