Medium and Abstraction in Monet and Cézanne
27 Apr 2007
In the Reynolds Room, a John Madejski Fine Room
Reynolds Room; 6.30-7.30pm; £14/£6* (includes lecture, exhibition entry and a drink), £10 (includes lecture and a drink)
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Despite their different personalities and vastly different career profiles, Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne shared the naturalistic aims of impressionist art. They also shared in a result they did not anticipate and probably never desired: to have converted the representation of nature into what seemed like an art of abstraction. Professor Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, and Director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin, examines how this turn of events came about.
