Les couleurs de l'Impressionnisme à Adelaïde

Edouard Manet - Clair de lune sur le port de Boulogne - 1868
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Les noirs de Courbet, de Manet ou de Renoir, les blancs de Monet, les rouges de Signac, les bleus et les verts de Cézanne ou de Sisley, les roses de Morisot ou de Renoir (encore lui), toute la palette impressionniste s'expose à l'Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide).L'exposition, un produit d'exportation made in France ? Celle-ci, conçue par le Musée d'Orsay, a été vendue clef-en-main aux Australiens, après un passage par Singapour cet hiver !Colors of Impressionism : Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay
Art Gallery of South Australia - Adelaide, jusqu'au 29 juillet 2018

Les couleurs de l'Impressionnisme à Adelaïde

Edouard Manet - La serveuse de bocks - 1879
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Présentation de l'exposition par le Musée d'Orsay
Although brightening the palette was the main concern of future Impressionists from the outset, the understanding and use of different colors evolved over time, according to the diverse experiences and intentions of the group of artists between the 1860s and 1910s.
The exhibitions seeks to clarify in which context and at the cost of which developments Impressionism appeared, by examining the shift from a style of painting where black prevailed to a style of painting that used lighter colours, with a particular focus on Manet and Boudin.
It goes on to present the “historic” Impressionism of the 1870s and the first half of the 1880s, a time when experiments in terms of tones of white in snow paintings and harmonies of blue and green in seascapes landscapes came to dominate.
Lastly, after a careful examination of the question of Divisionism and the birth of Neo-Impressionism within the group’s last exhibition, it looks at the upsurge of a range of less realistic tones and more particularly the nuances of pink in Monet’s art, influenced by a style of painting where themes of idea and memory appear, as well as the pearlescent glow of female skin that triumphs in the works of Renoir.