The Marmottan Museum, recognized for its giant assortment of Monet work, has simply opened a brand new exhibition containing round 100 works, permitting you to (re)uncover the neo-romantic motion in twentieth century artwork that thought-about modernist abstractionism to have run its course and supplied a return to the figurative.
It’s an exhibition on the Druet Gallery in Paris in 1926 that may be thought-about the beginning of the neo-romantic period (additionally known as neo-manneristic or neo-humanist), exhibiting works from younger painter who posited that summary artwork had run out of concepts and that new propositions had been needed in a post-Picasso. world
The exhibition at Marmottan provides a worldwide view of the neo-romantic artwork motion with particulars of every painter in addition to their influences, which included theatre, opera, ballet and Italy, in addition to their hyperlinks with high-profile personalities together with Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli and Helena Rubinstein.
An audioguide (in French or English – 4€) will accompany you thru the exhibition, giving further particulars on sure work.
And to discover the topic additional (or simply as a memento), a listing has simply been printed by Flammarion (256 pages, round 40€), accessible right here at your native amazon.
The exhibition The Neo-Romantics 1926-1972 (Néo-Romantiques, Un second oublié de l’artwork moderne 1926-1972) is on the Marmottan Museum (right here) till 18th June 2023
Open every single day besides Mondays from 10am-6pm (9pm Thursdays)
Admission: 14€ / 9€ / free for below 7s
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To take a look at the press launch in English, click on the ‘fullscreen’ button on the backside proper of the imahe under.
