Impressionism and Others - A Journey in Art Innovation
In 1855, and after the rejection of a group of his artworks by the jury of the Exposition Universelle de Paris, French painter Gustave Courbet organized the first independent and self-managed art exhibition just outside the Exposition Universelle, calling it the Realism Pavillion. This audacious and creative form of protest created a shockwave in the artworld of the time, one that would give visibility to a new generation of artists, spurred new artistic movements that challenged the approved artistic language, and changed the face of art forever. This is the starting point for The Impressionists and others, an exhibition at the Ara Pacis Museum that takes us on a full ride through the emerging art styles at the turn of the XX century and beyond. Exhibiting 52 artworks from the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the exhibition flows through a serpentine concatenation of rooms, with a careful progression of styles in four well-defined moments: Impressionism, After Impressio...
