"Claude Monet: Fields in Spring"

Henri Moser

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'Claude Monet: Fields in Spring'

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• Publié par: ofubosut
• Nombre de lectures: 102
• Langue: Français

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Press Release

Claude Monet: Fields in Spring

at Stuttgart State Gallery

From

20 May – 24 September 2006

Stuttgart State Gallery will present the exceptional

jubilee exhibition: Claude Monet: "Fields in Spring". The popular painting "Fields in Spring"

was the first Impressionist work to be acquired by the newly-founded "Stuttgarter

Galerieverein" exactly 100 years ago.

"Fields in Spring" is the starting-point of a unique exhibition focusing on forty main works. It

will promote an understanding of the diversity of artistic forms to be found in one of the

central themes of Monet's art: the portrayal of fields and meadows. The initial works are of

the fields in Argenteuil which the artist painted between 1873 and 1878. The varied spacing

of the brushwork gives these early depictions of fields great vitality and vibrant tension. To

these natural scenes Monet frequently added an elegant city lady with a parasol and a little

boy, using his wife Camille and his young son, Jean, as models.

Parallel to Monet's move to Giverny in 1883, the Impressionist movement became

increasingly established as the most important trend in the contemporary French art of the

day, with Monet as its leading representative. It was also in Giverny that the central work of

the exhibition, "Fields in Spring", was created in 1887. It marks a turning-point in Monet's

oeuvre, combining a typical theme of Impressionist painting with a remarkably rigid

structuring and strongly systematised coloration.

The exhibition concludes with a selection of the fascinating poplar paintings of 1891, in which

the systematic progression of fields in spring is continued and brought to completion. By this

time art critics had already come to appreciate the originality of Monet's innovative treatment

of natural themes as an outstanding quality of his art. Monet's admirer and fellow-artist, Paul

Signac, wrote for instance, "But no, Monsieur Monet, you are no Naturalist. In nature trees

are not blue, people are not violet, and it is to your great credit that you have painted them

exactly as you perceive them, for love of beautiful colours, and not as they really are."

Stuttgart-Marketing GmbH, the official tourism partner of the regional capital, offers a special

package arrangement which includes hotel accommodation and an admission ticket to the

exhibition. Information and reservations under

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