This Sunday MoMa opens, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865–1885. This show is on the heels of other successful "partner" shows, like Van Gogh/Gauguin and Matisse/Picasso. However, this is not a made-for-exhibition partnership. It is clear that Cezanne and Pissarro were extremely close friends. This is an important friendship to explore since Cezanne is commonly thought of as the father of modern painting. What, if anything, did Cezanne learn from his partnership with Pissarro? What, if any, was Pissarro's contribution to the shape of modern art?
This from MoMa's website:
"This exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to examine the parallel creative paths of these two artists, both through their common choices of subject matter and through their intense engagement in exploring new pictorial processes. Very much in the spirit of projects launched at MoMA in the past few years, this exhibition will reveal how modernism developed through acts of exchange and discussion, rather than through isolated enterprises."
One other interesting note about this show is that Joachim Pissarro, Pissarro's great-grandson organised the exhibit.
Read more about the exhibit at the NYT.
The exhibit runs through Sept. 12.
Posted by Paul Hina at June 24, 2005 10:35 AM