Exhibition Review: French Moderns 1850-1950

Running head: EXHIBITION REVIEW
EXHIBITION REVIEW
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1EXHIBITION REVIEW
Creative art that are to be appreciated and admired by sight like sculptures and
paintings are called Visual art. People these days go to museums, exhibitions ad art galleries
to see paintings. An exhibition was recently organized by the Brooklyn Museum and was
curated by Bruce Grenville and Emmy Lee Wall. The name of the exhibition was French
Moderns: Monett to Matisse, 1850- 1950. The exhibition included sixty sculptures and
paintings from the European Collection of the Brooklyn Museum and also three collections
that are added from the Vancouver’s Art Gallery. This exhibition was organized at a huge
scale that was open to all the students of Vancouver and not just for the students who are
studying art. This paper tends to talk about an exhibition that was organised, the review of the
exhibition and analysis of paintings of the exhibition.
The main aim of the exhibition is to provide the information about artists during the
time period of 1850-1950. The famous pictures by these artists were showcased. The
organized exhibition was at a moderate scale. Students who are currently studying about
these artists in their classes do not know what they have painted and how it looks like. They
have only seen them in the text books. The main aim was to show students the original works
of these artists so that they can see how they painted and how the different ages of paintings
have had major impact in the painting. In this exhibition the students are going to get an
insight about the painter’s life and their works that made them so recognised. The students in
this exhibition is going to see the evolution of art and assess the differences and what are the
changes that had taken place due to different factors that have paved way for the different
forms of art that has been introduced over the years.
The exhibition was presented beautifully. The walls were grey in colour with bright
lights and lights that focused on the painting. The effort to put in so many paintings in a
classy and creative way was very nice. The museum looked mesmerizing with so many
beautiful art. There were many painting by eminent and talented painters during that time.

2EXHIBITION REVIEW
Each beautiful in their own way and had different elements to the picture. The fauvism style
of painting was one of the most attractive paintings that were in the exhibition. Attractive to
the eye this theme has however a short history but a long lasting impact. One of the paintings
that were very beautiful and attractive was of the pioneer of Fauvism style of painting, Henry
Matisse. Henri Matisse was a French artist; he was a sculpture, a printmaker but was widely
known as a painter. Henri Matisse emerged as a post-impressionist and also was one of the
famous painters who used the fauvism style of painting. At the end of the nineteenth century
an art movement that was called Fauvism broke out that originated in France. The Fauvism
style of painting was creating spontaneous images and fresh piece of art and use bright
colours in a decorative and arbitrary way.
(Henri Matisse, Flowers, 1906)