01/11/16
Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
21
October 2016 – 29 January 2017
Daubigny, Monet, Van
Gogh. You might be forgiven for not immediately rushing to see this exhibition
on the strength of its protagonist alone. The names Monet and Van Gogh draw a
crowd, but Daubigny, it seems, has been largely forgotten in recent years. Part
of the reasoning behind this touring exhibition – already shown at the Taft
Museum, Cincinnati, and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh – is to
redress this error, since, in the 19th century itself, Charles-François
Daubigny (1817-1878) was not only one of the best-known artists in France, but
one of the most successful and influential. His pioneering and innovative use
of impasto techniques, the palette knife, and a sketchy application of broad
brushstrokes of paint, along with his enjoyment of painting en plein air, broke
with salon tradition and paved the way for the younger generation of impressionists.
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