Impressionist Show at High Museum
Old Masters' Influence on 19th-century French Painters
"Inspiring Impressionism" at the High Museum of Art explores the influence of European Old Master paintings on many of the 19th-century French Impressionists.
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA is soon to debut Inspiring Impressionism (October 16, 2007-January 13, 2008), an array of 86 paintings and works on paper from over 40 museums. This groundbreaking exhibition illustrates how primarily 17th-century Dutch and Spanish masters and 18th-century French Rococo artists influenced French Impressionists Claude Monet (1840-1926), Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Paintings by Titian (ca. 1488-1576), Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Claude Lorrain (1604-1682) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) are placed alongside 19th-century works, demonstrating how many of the French Impressionists continued to study their predecessors' oeuvres for inspiration while striving to create a thoroughly new art. The exhibition travels next to the Denver Art Museum (February 23-May 25, 2008) and the Seattle Art Museum (June 19-September 21, 2008).
On October 18, 2007 at 7:00 PM, the High Museum of Art will present Move Aside Raphael, Velázquez Has Arrived!, a fascinating lecture by Gary Tinterow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Englehard Curator in Charge of Nineteenth-century, Modern and Contemporary Art. Dr. Tinterow will describe how works by Spanish Old Masters such as Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) impacted on French Impressionists Degas, Monet and Renoir.
