Studio of the South Blog

If you love the work of the Impressionists, then you will surely love Impressionist Normandy. This four month festival begins in June and runs through September in the Normandy region of France and is held to celebrate the Impressionist movement which began with Claude Monet’s Impression Sunrise in 1872. Cultural events including art, theatre, dance, photography, video, and more will comprise this diverse cultural experience taking place all summer long in different cities in the Normandy region. If you are in the area this summer, some of the highlights include an exhibition in Rouen will cover titled “A City for Impressionism” will cover some of the Studio of the South featured artists Monet, Pissarro, and Gauguin, the “Impressionism on the Seine” exhibition at Giverny featuring works by Monet, Renoir, Bonnard, Matisse and Caillebotte and just outside of Rouen will be an exhibition “In a Garden- Homage to” which will include photos and video interpretations of Manet’s Dejeuner sur l’Herbe. To view all of the events and learn more visit Impressionist Normandy.

This year there are a variety of exciting art exhibitions all over the world.  No matter where you are, chances are that the works of one of the great masters will be on display near you.  Here are a few that have opened or are opening in the early part of this year at art museums all over the world.

By the Water-lily Pond – Monet, Yoshihiro Suda and Zon Ito, ongoing until Februrary 28 at the Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art near Kyoto, Japan.

Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master, ongoing until April 11 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Degas to Picasso – French masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, ongoing until April 25 at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary. 

Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet – The Bührle Collection visits the Kunsthaus Zürich, ongoing until May 16 at the The Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.

Masterpieces of European Painting, opening February 19 until May 16 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cézanne and American Modernism, ongoing until May 23 at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Monet and Abstraction, opening February 23 until May 30 at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain.