At the Revoltella Museum in Trieste 70 works they tell about the impressionist movement and its close links with Normandy. Painters like Monet, Renoir, Delacroix and Courbet they tell the vitality of the landscape by capturing the skies, waters and valleys of Normandy. The exhibition "Monet and the Impressionists in Normandy" focuses above all on the heritage of Peindre en Normandie collection, among the most representative collections of the Impressionist period, flanked by loans from Musée Marmottan Monet of Paris, from the Belvedere in Vienna, from the Musée Eugène-Boudin in Honfleur and from private collections and retraces the salient stages of the artistic current: works such as Cliffs at Dieppe (1834) by Delacroix, The beach at Trouville (1865) by Courbet, Camille on the beach (1870) by Monet, Sunset, view of Guernesey (1893) by Renoir - among the masterpieces on display. It was the English watercolorists such as Turner and Parkes who, crossing the Channel to indulge in the study of landscapes, transmitted their ability to translate truth and natural vitality to French painters: the English speak of Normandy, its light, its rich forms that enhance the senses and visual experience.
The exhibition recounts the "irresistible attraction" of artists for Normandy, a French region which in the XNUMXth century became a veritable laboratory of ideas for the great impressionist artists. The relations between Normandy and painting are now famous. Thanks to the progress of the railway during the XNUMXth century, the region became a meeting place for Parisian artists and participated in the birth of Impressionism and its evolution, which continued until the mid-XNUMXth century. Places such as Dieppe, the Seine estuary, Le Havre, Trouville beach, the coast from Honfleur to Deauville, the port of Fécamp – all represented in the works on display – become a source of artistic expression of great power, where the microcosms generated from the wind, the sea and the mist they possess a physical, intense and expressive personality, which painters come to grasp by painting en plein air, thus giving way to the impressionist movement. Alongside the numerous illustrious painters (Monet, Corot, Courbet, Boudin, Marquet, Géricault, Jongkind), other less well-known artists (Noël, Lepic) celebrate the marriage between Norman light and sky nourished by the natural lyricism of their countries. These - and many others - are the authors of the canvases from the prestigious collection of the Association Peindre en Normandie of Caen. The collection, created in 1992 on the initiative of the Lower Normandy Regional Council and private partners, uniquely brings together famous artists and other lesser-known authors who represented the Norman landscape from the mid-XNUMXth century to the early XNUMXth century. The visit itinerary is divided into five sections: "The Saint-Siméon Farm", "By the sea: leisure and holidays", "By the sea: work," Norman land ", " Along the Seine".
Cover image: RENOIR Coucher de Soleil, vue de Guernesey 1893
