Monet/Rothko: Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny - Hardcover

Sciama, Cyrille; Delbarre, Marie; Lefebvre, Géraldine; Wat, Pierre; Reis, Valérie

 
9782080294715: Monet/Rothko: Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny

Synopsis

This comparison of the work of Monet and Rothko provides exhilarating new insight on these pioneers of abstraction and masters of color.

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About the Author

Cyrille Sciama is director general of the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny and is head heritage curator.

Marie Delbarre is a research assistant at the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny.

Géraldine Lefebvre is a historian of nineteenth-century art and an independent curator.

Pierre Wat is an art history professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Valérie Reis is responsible for exhibitions at the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny.

From the Back Cover

Recent research on late impressionism has highlighted the surprising correspondences between the work of impressionist paragon Claude Monet and that of abstract painters such as Mark Rothko.

This book offers an unprecedented dialogue between the paintings of Monet and Rothko, two artists who explored the frontiers of abstraction. It explores the uncanny similarities between their works, painted almost half a century apart, as well as the significance of the differences between the master artists’ styles

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