More to Love at the High: Monet Water Lilies

Atlanta-area artists, art lovers and students are blessed to have the High Museum of Art. Even as museums around the globe have limited the scope of their exhibitions, the High continues to awe and inspire us.

Quintessentially, last weekend the High added two more new exhibits to its already stellar lineup.

In a collaboration with New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the High’s latest blockbuster features four masterpieces by the French impressionist Claude Monet, including the renowned “Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond,” which, at 42-feet-wide, is the largest “Water Lilies” painting in the U.S.

Also new is “On the Beach,” an exhibition of 20 monumental photographs by Richard Misrach, a recognized pioneer of large-format color photography. Spanning four galleries, the show marks the largest collection of Misrach’s bird’s-eye images of the ocean, sunbathers and swimmers.

EXHIBITIONS NOW ON VIEW:

• Monet Water Lilies from the Museum of Modern Art, through August 23.
• Richard Misrach: On the Beach, through August 23
• Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Masterpiece, through Sept 12
• Anthony Ames, Architect: Residential Landscapes, through August 23, 2009
• Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell, through August 2, 2009

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

• Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius, in October 2009. The High will unveil for the first time outside of Florence, Italy, two sculptural works newly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
• The Allure of the Automobile, in Spring 2010. The High premieres the first exhibition to consider the stylistic development of automobiles in the context of prominent design movements such as Art Moderne and Postwar Modernity.

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Monet’s Water Lilies at the High this Summer

For the first time in the southeast the High Museum of Art will exhibit four masterpieces by Claude Monet from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Among these iconic paintings will be MoMA’s renowned 42-foot-wide triptych, which is the largest “Water Lilies” painting in the U.S.

The High‘s “Monet Water Lilies” will be on view from June 6 to August 23, 2009. Following the Atlanta exhibition, MoMA will subsequently show its full collection of Claude Monet’s water lilies beginning September 13, 2009, through March 29, 2010.

Since MoMA acquired its first large-scale water lilies painting by Monet in 1954, and as it added others, they have become especially popular with the Museum’s audiences.

We firmly believe there is no substitute for actually seeing real art with our own eyes, especially large-scale works like Monet’s water lilies. But if you cannot arrange to ogle these masterworks in person at MoMA or the High, we encourage you to learn more about them online and through art books at BINDERS.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) devoted the last 25 years of his life to 251 paintings that portray the Japanese-style water pond he cultivated on his property in Giverny, France. His triptych Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, 1920, is one of the most spectacular works in the MoMA collection, not just for its sheer size (6' 6" x 41' 10") but also for its beauty and colors, and its power to engage the viewer’s mind. The triptych painting occupies the entire length of a gallery.

MoMA says the goal is to “see how present taste (in art) helps to shape our attitudes towards the past.” For this reason, visitors will be able to see these Monet canvases in context with Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) rather than alongside other 19th century Impressionist painters.

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What’s Up at The High

Atlanta’s High Museum of Art currently has three great exhibitions on view.

The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, through April 19, 2009. The archaeological examples including warriors from the terracotta army, court officials, acrobats, musicians, terracotta chariot horses, and bronze water birds discovered beside the complex's underground river. Showcasing over 100 works.

The Treasure of Ulysses Davis, through April 5, 2009. Ulysses Davis made his living as a Savannah barber. By night, he was a self-taught artist who created a body of more than 300 highly refined pieces, often with improvised tools, that reflects his rich imagination and humor as a sculptor.




Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Masterpiece, through September 6, 2009. Featuring 91 works from the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Spanning 4,000 years, this exhibition draws from all eight of the Louvre’s collection areas, including paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and drawings.

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