Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity – an exhibition connecting the world of art and fashion through a sumptuous display of over 79 great paintings and nearly 14 lavish garments highlighting the nuances of nineteenth century’s Impressionism art movement of France is going on at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Synchronised and curated by Susan Alyson Stein, the featured exhibits are being collected from various international art houses, such as National museum in Stockholm, Art Institute of Chicago, London’s The Courtauld Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Drawn by world famous painters like Manet, Morisot and Monet, the exhibited illustrations offer the viewers a better understanding of the fashion trends, in terms of dresses, bonnets, suits and hats, from the period between 1860 to1880.
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Among the famous artworks featuring the sartorial trends of that period is French impressionist Claude Monet’s Camille (1866). The painting shows the artist’s the then lover, who became his wife later, in a green and black striped dress, a popular trend of that society.
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Other attractions of the exhibition include a range of masculine and feminine period costumes, including a white cotton piqué day dress, corsets and ball gowns, as well as accessories and photographs from the late nineteenth-century.
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