The National Gallery of Ireland to show " Impressionist Interiors " |
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| Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:37 |
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DUBLIN, IRELAND - The National Gallery of Ireland will present "Impressionist Interiors ", on view 10 May – 10 August 2008. Millennium Wing. This summer, the National Gallery of Ireland will present an exhibition highlighting the intimate observations of the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Featuring many wonderful, well-known paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Gauguin, Vuillard and Morisot, the exhibition will explore how these artists created a strikingly modern vision of the world around them. Rejecting the narrative conventions of academic art, Impressionist artists chose deliberately informal interior scenes for many of their compositions. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
Impressionist Interiors will include 40 paintings on loan from important European and US collections as well as works from the Gallery’s own collection. The accompanying catalogue written by Janet McLean, NGI Curator of European Art 1850-1950, will include contributions by S. Hollis Clayson, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University , Illinois , and Suzanne Singletary, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture , University of Philadelphia . A series of free talks around the exhibition will take place in May, and a special study morning on the topic, ‘The World of the Impressionists’ will take place on Saturday 7 June. 
