Review by Cristina Webb
Beyond Monet allows you to transport yourself to Paris and into the life of Monet, to feel the inspiration that moved his paintbrush. An incredible multi-sensory experience that combines music, sound effects, and projection. It takes you into the artist's most iconic works to experience his paintings creation brushstroke by brushstroke. Featuring masterpieces such as Poppies, Impression: Sunrise, and the Water Lilies series, you will feel the paintings with the immersion technology by the team at Normal Studio. The show was created by French-Canadian creative director Mathieu St-Arnaud and his team at Montreal's Normal Studio. Together they worked to re-create Monet's vision as a experience that will take you into the time and places of the artist's creations. The exhibition at Ice Palace Studios, Miami allows you to immerse yourself in Monet’s artwork. Occupying over 50,000 square feet, Beyond Monet is the largest immersive experience in the country. Through the use of cutting-edge projection technology and an original score, Beyond Monet breathes new life into over 400 of Claude Monet’s artworks. Monet's work is projected so that it fills the entire room. The visual stimuli is paired with music to elevate the sense of total immersion. The train in his painting comes to life and the lighthouse beams from inside the art.
Claude Monet was a one of the painters important in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the nineteenth century. Monet and friends that included Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and other Impressionists enjoyed limited success in the early years, with a handful of landscapes, seascapes, and portraits accepted for exhibition at the annual Salons of the 1860s. Yet rejection of many of his more ambitious works, inspired Monet to join with Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Renoir, and others in establishing an independent exhibition in 1874. Impression was brought together to begin the movement that we love and admire today. However the exhibition drew particular scorn from the day's art crites for the unfinished appearance of its loose handling and indistinct forms. Yet the artists saw the criticism as a badge of honor, and subsequently called themselves “Impressionists”. Monet found subjects in his immediate surroundings, as he painted the people and places he knew best. His first wife, Camille, and his second wife, Alice, frequently served as models. He escaped the Franco-Prussian War and when he returned to France, Monet moved to Argenteuil, just outside Paris then to Vétheuil, Poissy, and finally to the more rural Giverny in 1883. His homes and gardens became gathering places for friends, including Manet and Renoir, who often painted alongside their host.
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