Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art

In a recent Brooklyn Museum installation, European artists are the stars. Nearly 100 works by artists like Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Vasily Kandinsky are included in the exhibition "Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art," which is on display through October 31. The renowned museum assets span in theme, scope, and material, but they haven't been on display together in Brooklyn since 2016. This is one of the Best Art Shows And Exhibits In NYC.

What is real and what is imagined in works that assert and reflect views of gender, class, labor, colonialism, and nature? These are some of the questions that can be answered by considering the artworks in the context of the exhibition's "real and imagined" throughline, which is evocative and flexible. For whom and by whom are these frames of reference produced? These queries also serve as a reminder that the conventional canon of European art history is fictitious as well as authentic. Although it is a fiction created for a specific, self-identified constituency, it has had a very substantial impact on the objects that have been acquired and shown in museums.

Could this re-installation signal a shift away from these legendary artists' now-ubiquitous immersive art experiences that have been appearing all over the world? Time will only tell.

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