Afternoon at BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE: Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874

Love the Impressionists? Join LeeAnne for an afternoon at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute to watch Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874. It's a fabulous follow-up to our Washington D.C. day trip to see the Paris 1874 exhibit, but the movie event is open to both those who joined us then and those who didn't! You also don't need to read the book in advance given the short time frame, but if you're interested, check out Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell. It's an historical novel about the years leading up to and including the Paris 1874 exhbit that changed the art world forever. It really brought Camilee and Claude to life!

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EVENT: EXHIBITION ON SCREEN – DAWN OF IMPRESSIONISM: PARIS 1874
(NR) UK – 1 hr 30 min
2024 · d. Ali Ray
Link to info: https://brynmawrfilm.org/event/exhibition-on-screen-dawn-of-impressionism-paris-1874/
General Public: $20, BMFI Members: $18, Students with ID: $12
In 1874, a group of scorned, penniless artistic mavericks held their own exhibition outside official channels, launching the Impressionist movement and changing the art world forever. Made in close collaboration with the Musee d’Orsay in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., this documentary relates the story of that groundbreaking show and the movement’s birth, told in the words of those who witnessed it: the artists, the press, and the people of 19th-century Paris.

LATE LUNCH: TBD
After the show, those who want can grab a late lunch/early dinner at a TBD location.

SUGGESTED (NOT REQUIRED TO READ) NOVEL: Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell
Genre: Historical Fiction

A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order.

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father’s will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris.

But once there he is confronted with obstacles: an art world that refused to validate his style, extreme poverty, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. But there were bright spots as well: his deep, enduring friendships with men named Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Manet—a group that together would come to be known as the Impressionists, and that supported each other through the difficult years. Even more illuminating was his lifelong love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who threw away her privileged life to be by the side of the defiant painter and embrace the lively Bohemian life of their time.

His muse, his best friend, his passionate lover, and the mother to his two children, Camille stayed with Monet—and believed in his work—even as they lived in wretched rooms and often suffered the indignities of destitution. But Camille had her own demons—secrets that Monet could never penetrate—including one that when eventually revealed would pain him so deeply that he would never fully recover from its impact.

BONUS BOOK: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Genre: Nonfiction
If you want to learn more about this era of art, this is the nonfiction book for you

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~ Audrey

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