Having a single work by a master on display in your museum can be a major attraction in its own right. Have nine of them — especially from a single series — and you’ve got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and event. That’s the case with “Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process,” which features nine paintings created from 1899 through 1901 by French Impressionist Claude Monet at the Savoy Hotel in London and completed back at his studio in Giverny that are on display through April 28 at the Worcester Art Museum. Local residents who have long had the honor of having a 1903 work from the series on permanent display at WAM have been basking in the limelight of having themselves surrounded by a strong representation of the series, much in the way Monet saw them when he created them in two rooms at the Savoy. The unique coupling is possible through loans from the Milwaukee Art … [Read more...] about MONET’S WATERLOO BRIDGE: VISION AND PROCESS AT WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
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Carole Bolsey’s “Hudson River Backwater”
Carole Bolsey is known for her large-scale canvases. So, when VisionArt was looking for an artist to take up their monumental 8’ x 27’ task of creating a piece of art large enough to serve as a “window” to the outdoors, Christina Godfrey (director of contemporary and corporate art at Sunne Savage Gallery) knew just the artist for the job. Bolsey’s “Hudson River Backwater” is a piece commissioned for Hudson Yards Grill, an all-American family restaurant opening to the public March 15 in the new Hudson Yards development, the largest development in New York City since Rockefeller Center. The restaurant has no windows, so the painting will be the patron’s view to the outside. The inspiration for the piece was a painting done by Bolsey back in 2015, titled “Lilies and White Canoe.” The piece is a mere 6’ 1” x 5’ 1” compared to the 7’ 6” x 26’ 10” canvas she just completed. The … [Read more...] about Carole Bolsey’s “Hudson River Backwater”
MASTERFUL INFLUENCE: THIERRY’S TRIBUTE TO MONET
REVIEW GABRIELLE THIERRY: THE MUSICALITY OF THE WATER LILIES — COLORED MUSICAL SCORES INSPIRED BY CLAUDE MONET WATER LANDSCAPES IRIS AND B. GERALD CANTOR ART GALLERY COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ONE COLLEGE STREET, WORCESTER, MA THROUGH OCTOBER 7 by Beth Neville A French artist, Gabrielle Thierry deserves a warm welcome in the United States for her colorful and enchanting large-scale paintings inspired by Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” murals. Shipped directly from Paris, France, her eight oil-on-canvas paintings are on exhibit through early October at the Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross. Thierry employs a complex theoretical system of her own invention to “translate” Monet’s late works into a personal vision involving art and music. But to appreciate Thierry’s art, the viewer must look directly at the paintings without considering her theories. … [Read more...] about MASTERFUL INFLUENCE: THIERRY’S TRIBUTE TO MONET