The fiery cities
Art, work, revolt 1870 - 1914
In the context of impressionist Normandy
Remembering the events of the Commune on the eve of the First World War, France went through a period of significant economic, political and social change. The work-oriented industrial society inspires a number of painters. The impressionists, post-impressionists and naturalists find themselves around this same motif, marked by a sensitivity to the reality of their time.Focusing on the representation of scenes of work in the city between 1870 and 1914, the Museum of Fine Arts of Caen wishes as much to displace the usual oppositions of style, genre and school, as to widen the gaze on Impressionist art, more readily considered as an art of pleasure, The European Commission has been very active in this area.
The exhibition will combine some one hundred and fifty works drawn, painted and sculpted in eight large sections, for an approach to the landscape, men and women, the social history of painting work