From Deseret News archives:
Exhibit offers Utahns a rare chance to see art from 'Monet to Picasso'
How could any exhibit that spans Realism/Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism and boasts the inclusion of such artists as Courbet, Degas, Cezanne, Pissarro, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Seurat, van Gogh, Gaugin, Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Magritte, Ernst, Mondrian and Dali be anything else?
With 74 pieces from the Cleveland's collection on loan while the CMA completes its more than $200 million redesign/renovation "Monet to Picasso" offers Utahns a rare chance to dine on what other major cities consume as a regular diet.
"This exhibition is a unique and tremendously exciting opportunity for all art lovers living in the region," said Gretchen Dietrich, UMFA director of public programs and curatorial affairs.
According to Dietrich, these works tell an engaging story of the European Modernism development from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th.
Divided into sections highlighting the major art movements from 1864-1964, visitors are shown how artists built on one another's ideas and discoveries while making their own distinctive contribution to the history of art.
In mid-19th century Paris, the annual Salon of the government's Academy of Fine Arts was the major venue for artists to exhibit their work, win prizes and attract patrons. However, Salon juries systematically rejected work that did not conform to traditional subject matter, standards of beauty and style. Progressive artists grew increasingly dissatisfied with this system that favored the conservative over the innovative.
This yearning for change, and the resulting competitive scramble toward modernism, begins with such pieces as Renoir's "Romaine Lacaux" (1864) and Monet's "The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Mrs. Monet" (1868-78) and culminates with Dali's outrageously bizarre "La Reve."
Other outstanding exhibition pieces are Cezanne's "The Brook" (1895-1900), van Gogh's "The Poplars at Saint-Remy" (1889), Gaugin's "In the Waves" (1889), Redon's "Vase of Flowers" (1905), Rodin's "Heroic Head of Pierre de Wiessant, One of the Burghers of Calais" (1886) and Modigliani's "Portrait of a Woman" (1917-18).
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