Giverny Museum of Impressionisms

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Instruments de musique dans l'art, 1860-1910 

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In Concert! Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910

Exhibition 2017 in Giverny France, Museum of Impressionisms

from March 24th to July 2nd, 2017

The second half of the 19th Century is not only the time of a revolution in art with the birth of impressionist painting.

It is also a time for changes in music. New instruments are invented. Music enters in the homes of the upper middle-class, while a growing number of cafés-concerts, bals, brass bands, circus or operas attract crowds looking for leisure and fun.

Painters like Manet, Degas, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, but also Whistler, Toulouse-Lautrec or Bonnard depict these modern themes and motifs that are so typical of their times.

Just like painting, music evolves deeply. Composers like Debussy or Ravel invent a new descriptive music that will be called 'impressionist music'. In return, painting defends this new music, thus multiplying connections between the two art forms.