Monet – Mitchell Exhibit at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

Event Description

This show at the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton promises to create a fascinating and unique “dialogue” between the works of two stellar artists. To quote the website: “The “Monet – Mitchell” exhibitions present each artist’s unique response to a shared landscape, which they illustrate in a particularly immersive and sensual manner. In his last paintings, the Water Lilies, Monet aimed to recreate in his studio the motifs he observed at length on the surface of his water lily pond in Giverny. Joan Mitchell, on the other hand, would explore a memory or a sense of the emotions she felt while in a particular place that was dear to her, perceptions that remained vivid beyond space and time. She would create these abstract compositions at La Tour, her studio in Vétheuil, a small French village.”