Youth tends not to be a fan of anything academic, preferring to reinvent the wheel with its own style and unique vision. This desire to innovate pushed painter Claude Monet to develop his brush-strokes and gave rise to abstract landscapes free of the artistic conventions which reined supreme during the nineteenth century. This key figure of the impressionist movement revolutionized the manner in which reality was represented in the visual arts to such an extent that we can now talk about abstraction.
The exhibit “Monet y la abstracción” which occupies several rooms in the Museum Thyssen and also Caja Madrid will be on display until the 30th of May, and proposes taking a fresh look at the work of this important figure in art history. His landscape of the port, Impression, Sunrise (1872) gave rise to the name of the impressionist movement. The critic and humorist Louis Leroy ironically defined this painting as impressive in a review for the journal Le Charivari.
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