Sunday 11 October 2009

Impressionist art in Villa Manin

Hi!
I went to an art exhibition today and I really enjoyed it. Luckily the weather was very fine, a sunny, cool day, more similar to Spring than to the beginning of Autumn.
The exhibiton took place in the beautiful villa Manin Passariano in Codroipo (Udine) and contained mainly impressionist and realist paintings.





The paintings were not as many as I thought they would be, but there were some really beautiful pieces of art mainly by French, Russian, Hungarian, artists. There were also very famous artists like Monet, Renoir, Pisarro, Serov, Levitan, Courbet, Van Gogh, l'ecole de Barbizon.





The impressionist and the realist paintings were not divided in two separated areas but organised in different themes like: water, farming, portraits, etc, and even if this could be quite confusing at first, I liked this choice, it gave a nice organisation to the exhibition.
Some impressionist paintings had a wonderful light and bright colours, at the right distance you could say the movement contained in the scene and all that brushstrokes and stains took the form of a field with flowers, a railway, a forest.
I'm not the biggest fan of Realist art but there were some really impressive pieces, especially some landscapes, so realistic to seem photographs.
Behind the Villa there was a big, beautiful garden where we took a nice walk; a big lawn and many trees created a very relaxing atmosphere, there were two little lakes, squirrels and some statues.









Here there are some of the paintings that I loved the most:




Pierre Auguste Renoir - Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil



Monet - Morning On The Seine



Monet - Tulips field in Sassenhein near Leiden



Jòsef Chelmonski - Jay in the forest


Goodbye!!! (^___^)/~