Description
From next September 21, the first major exhibition in Madrid dedicated to the father of impressionism, Claude Monet, can be visited at CentroCentro. More than 50 of Monet's masterpieces, from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, will explain the entire artistic career of the Impressionist master, read through the works to which the painter himself was most attached, his "owns", those that he jealously preserved until death in his house in Giverny, and from which he never wanted to be separated, among them the famous and emblematic Water Lilies.
The Musée Marmottan Monet houses the most important and extensive collection of works by the French artist, the result of a donation made by his son Michel in 1966. For this exhibition, the museum will loan such exceptional works as Portrait of Michel Monet with Pompom Hat (1880 ), The train in the snow. The locomotive (1875) or London. The Parlament. Reflections in the Thames (1905), along with large format paintings such as his captivating Water Lilies (1917-1920) and his evanescent Wisteria (1919-1920).
The exhibition, organized by CentroCentro and Arthemisia in collaboration with the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, is conceived by Sylvie Carlier, General Curator and Curator of the Musée Marmottan Monet, and co-curators Marianne Mathieu, art historian, and Aurélie Gavoille, assistant of conservation of the Musée Marmottan Monet, in charge of carrying out the expository discourse of the selection of works that make up the exhibition.
Claude-Oscar Monet (Paris, November 14, 1840 - Giverny, December 5, 1926) is considered one of the founders of French Impressionism, to the point that the very name of the artistic movement is linked to one of his works, Print, Rising Sun (1872). Within the movement, he is undoubtedly the most consistent and prolific exponent. Monet's philosophy of painting, which can be seen in his famous series, is to portray nature as it is, always changing; so even taking the same argument over and over again does not mean reproducing the same frame. The wind and the shadows return to the artist's eyes an ever-changing theme.
