After its presentation on the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the exhibition “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” might be proven on the Nationwide Gallery of Washington from September 8, 2024 to January 19, 2025.
Supply: Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington · Picture: Claude Monet, “Impression, Sunrise”, 1872
On April 15, 1874, an exhibition by the “Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.” opened on the Parisian studio of the photographer Nadar on the Boulevard des Capucines. It was a defiant response to the official, government-sponsored annual exhibition generally known as the Paris Salon. The primary exhibition of those Société anonyme artists included works by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, and Paul Cézanne, later generally known as impressionists. This now-legendary occasion is usually thought of the delivery of modernist portray and stays a key second within the historical past of Western artwork.
Honoring the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the primary impressionist exhibition, Paris 1874: The Impressionist Second brings collectively some 130 work, works on paper, prints, sculptures, and images to discover the assorted ways in which artists responded to a metropolis recovering from the violence of conflict and large political and social upheaval.
What precisely occurred in Paris within the spring of 1874, and what that means can we connect to the emergence of this creative motion? Works proven on the first impressionist exhibition might be put into perspective alongside work and sculptures displayed on the official 1874 Salon. This unprecedented juxtaposition will assist us perceive the visible shock that guests skilled when first encountering the works of the impressionists.
