The Avant-garde fin de siecle à Paris on display at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
An impressive exhibition at the
Peggy Guggenheim Collection in
Venice will offer the public the opportunity to admire hundreds of extraordinary masterpieces by Paul Signac, Pierre Bonnard,
George Seurat and Maurice Denis, just to name a few.
The exhibition “
The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon and their contemporaries”, curated by Vivien Greene, 19th-and Early 20th-Century Art curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, explores the artistic scene of fin-de-siècle Paris, a city that provided the setting for many political upheavals and strong cultural transformations at that time.
The objects of the analysis are greatest avant-garde artists of the late nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the neo-impressionists, innovative painters who looked to scientific theories on colour and perception to create optical effects on their pointillist canvases. These include
Les Nabis, who renounced the easel in favour of various innovative techniques such as prints and magazine illustrations, and
the Symbolists, who abandoned the world of facts, preferring the fantastic, the outward appearance of the tumult of psychological landscapes, choosing the spiritual over the material, and the ethereal over the concrete.
Opening hours
Daily 10 am – 6 pm
Closed Tuesdays and December 25
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