Monet / Rothko

Exhibition 2022 in Giverny France, Museum of Impressionisms

From March 18th to July 3rd, 2022

 

Two major artists of the 20th Century meet this spring at Giverny.

Six late works by Claude Monet dialogue with six works painted by Mark Rothko at the climax of his career, during the two decades before he died.

Many connections can be observed between the leader of impressionism and the master of color fields painting.

At the end of his life, the motif mattered less and less for Monet.

He unconsciously approached abstraction with works centered on the play of colors.

Like rothko, he created immersive canvases that invite the viewer to dive in.

Both artists favored an emotional, sensuous, meditative and hypnotic experience.

For Monet, painting was an hymn to the beauty of the world, whereas Rothko questioned the way our human nature is linked to the universe.