Review: America’s greatest museums — the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago — have mounted major van Gogh shows this spring.
But the Art Institute of Chicago show — “Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape” — is not just about van Gogh. Rather, it tells the story of five artists struggling with the legacy of impressionism.Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Émile Bernard, Charles Angrand and van Gogh were all trying to find ways to address impressionism’s perceived weaknesses while building on its strengths .
and Clichy, northwest of central Paris. Van Gogh was late to the party. Seurat had begun painting on La Grande Jatte and Saint-Ouen at the beginning of the decade. Signac began painting in the area in 1882, Bernard in 1884 and the little-known Angrand in 1885.and Clichy in the spring of 1887. But the Dutchman was nothing if not prolific , and these were crucial months.was the second stop on the train line from the Gare Saint-Lazare, so it was a natural destination for weekend pleasure-seekers.
In different ways, Signac, Bernard, Angrand and van Gogh all fell under his spell and it’s this, as much as the focus on a small stretch of the Seine, that gives the show its special interest.In Asnières, the five artists painted various leisure activities as well as the water itself, which broke up colored light in ways thatIn working-class Clichy, just across the river, they painted the suburb’s gasometers, steam trains, bridges and factories.
in Amsterdam in October. What makes it rewarding for van Gogh lovers is that it lets us stand alongside the striving Dutchman as he worked his way through all this.“We painted on the banks of the river,” wrote Signac of his brief time with van Gogh, “and returned to Paris on foot. … Van Gogh wore a blue smock and had painted dots of color on the sleeves.
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