The Avante Garde of Fin de Siecle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon and their contemporaries: at the Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, Venice, Italy
The Avante Garde of Fin de Siecle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon and their contemporaries: at the Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, Venice, Italy This exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim modern art gallery, Venice, charts the evolution of French painting at the end of the 19th century. The Impressionist movement was beginning to become the kind of tired art monopoly that it had once rebelled against. France had been defeated in the war of 1870 by the Prussians and Germany had thus been unified. In the fin de siecle France was to be rocked by the Dreyfus scandal but also by a political ferment including Bohemians and conservatives, radicals and anti-republicans, anarchists and supporters of the status quo. Artists began to either retreat from the political turmoil around them into a purely aesthetic movement or fervently embrace predominantly left wing alternatives. The period was summarized by five separate, disparate groups: the Nabis, the Fauvists, the Pontillists, the Post-Im