From an Exhibition with a Little Disappointment:

I visited an art exhibition here in Hamburg yesterday. Its titled, was “From Poussin to Monet: the Colors of France”. Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was one of the leading French painters in the 17th century during the period of baroque period and Claude Monet (1840-1926) was one of the founders of French Impressionism, which is one of the most important painting periods for nowadays our contemporary understanding of design and of visual illustrations. Between these two painters there were was a timeframe of three very eventful centuries including Louis XIV, the French Revolution, and Napoleon. Therefore “The Colors of France” means not only signifies the influence of French art inside on the European artistic society, but it also means the of those highlights its contemporary political and cultural upheavals' influence toward on French art. 

To realize that social changes and artistic evolutions in arts are two separate sides of a coin that is one of the reasons why I am very in fond of arts. Every time I encounter it, it is I am excited to find out how a painter or an artistic period was affected by things that the events happened that occured in their time or to find discover out in which the ways in which both were influenced by their time. The goal of this exhibition I visited was the same: to show to demonstrate how the inseparablility of arts and society tied up together. So far, so good! However, I feel that this goal was much too big for a single exhibition with some 200 paintings. There were countless very important painters and a couple of huge painting periods (with a complicated puzzle of sub-periods!)  that occured during this long time and which were forgotten! So it would seem that this exhibition could can only be a small spotlight, maybe a kind of an or introduction for to a series of many other exhibitions which will follow the same main theme.; however, But none other similar to date there is no such exhibition will to follow after this one. What a pity…

From an exhibition with a little disappointment

From an exhibition with a little disappointment

I visited an art exhibition here in Hamburg yesterday. Its titel was “From Poussin to Monet. The colors of France”. Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was one of the leading French painters in the 17th century during the period of baroque and Claude Monet (1840-1926) was one of the founders of French Impressionism, which is one of the most important painting periods for nowadays understanding of design and of visual illustrations. Between these two painters there was a timeframe of three very eventfully centuries including Luis XIV, the French Revolution and Napoleon. Therefore “The colors of France” means not only the influence of French art inside Europe, it also means the influence of those politically and culturally upheaval toward French art.

To realize that social changes and evolutions in arts are two size of a coin that is one of the reasons why I am very in fond of arts. Every time it is exciting to find out how a painter or an art period was affected by things that happened in their time or to find out in which way both were influenced by their time. The goal of this exhibition I visited was the same: to show how arts and society are inseparable tied up together. So far so good! But this goal was to much big for a single exhibition with some 200 paintings. There were countless very important painters and a couple of huge painting periods (with a complicated puzzle of sub-periods!) during this long time! So this exhibition could only be a small spotlight, maybe a kind of an introduction for a series of many other exhibitions which will follow the same main theme. But none other similar exhibition will follow after that one, what a pity...