Multimedia Tour: French Moderns

Senior Curator Michael Neumeister welcomes you to French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 – 1950.

Glenna Barlow reflects on the era of the Belle Époque in Paris, the influence of Fauvism in Dufy’s painting, and why embracing pleasure and beauty can be transformative.

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^{Image: Gallery installation image photographed at the Columbia Museum of Art.}

Glenna Barlow describes the West’s fascination with and stereotypes of cultures of the Middle and Far East that informed paintings like Gérôme’s The Carpet Merchant of Cairo.

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^{Image: Detail, Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904). The Carpet Merchant of Cairo, 1869. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Joseph Gluck. (Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Museum)}

2012

Archival image of Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda, Cairo, from the 19^th century via the Victoria and Albert Museum website.

Glenna Barlow describes Rodin’s dedicated efforts to create an authentic representation of famed novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac and recounts the criticisms and openly hostile public reception of this sculpture in its time.

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^{Image: Detail, Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) Balzac in a Monk's Habit, ca. 1893; cast 1971. Bronze. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. Cast by Georges Rudier Fondeur, Paris. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)}