(23 Feb 2023)
GERMANY SUN ART
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Associated Press
Potsdam, Germany, 23 February 2023
1. Various of “Impression, sunrise” by Claude Monet (1872)
2. Various of Ortrud Westheider (right), director of Museum Barberini and Erik Desmazieres (left), director Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris
3. SOUNDBITE: (English), Erik Desmazieres, director Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris
“He probably added the sun at the end of the painting. He added this “yellowish”, red touch, with a reflection in the water at the end. And it gives all the character to the painting.”
4. Wide of exhibition
5. Various of “Golden Centre” by Richard Pousette-Dart (1964)
6. Various of “The sun” by Edvard Munch (1919-1913)
7. SOUNDBITE: (German), Ortrud Westheider, director of Museum Barberini
“This exhibition shows 2,500 years of visual representation of the sun. It is the first major exhibition in art on this theme, which is so amazing because it is a theme that unites all people in all cultures.”
8. Wide of people looking at “Impression, sunrise” by Claude Monet (1872)
9. Various of “Mortlake Terrace” by William Turner (1827)
10. Various of “The sun setting through vapor” William Turner (1809)
11. SOUNDBITE: (German), Ortrud Westheider, director of Museum Barberini
“It begins with the face of the sun. The sun was the personification in the beginning in Greece of the god Helios, Apollo, then the Roman god Sol. And then there is the transfer to Christ in Christianity. There are esoteric visuals, there is an iconography from Pompeii to Baroque and Romantic art to contemporary art from Olafur Eliasson and Katharina Sieverding. In other words, the whole big picture of how the sun appears in art."
12. Man looking at painting
13. Wide of exhibition
14. Various of “Painting” by Joan Miro (1953)
15. Various of “Yellow door semicircle” by Olafur Eliasson (2008)
16. Various of “Impression, sunrise” by Claude Monet (1872)
17. SOUNDBITE: (English), Erik Desmazieres, director Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris
“You can see on the painting also that it is a modern period. We can see crane; you can see chimneys of factories. You can see a boat in the background. It is already also the description of a new period. You know, the industrial period. That’s also why this painting is something very modern and the start of a new era.”
18. Various exterior of Museum Barberini
STORYLINE:
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From Ancient Greece to impressionist masterpieces, artists have depicted the sun for millennia.
A new exhibition in Potsdam, south of Berlin, is showing how the sun has been represented through 130 works of art dating back 2,500 years.
STORYLINE
This is one of the most famous paintings of the impressionist era.
“Impression, sunrise” by Claude Monet was painted in the harbour of Le Havre in 1872 and it is credited with giving the impressionist movement its name.
The painting is normally shown in the Musee Marmottan Monet, a museum dedicated to Monet’s art in Paris.
But it is now on an eight-week loan to Museum Barberini in Potsdam, south of the German capital Berlin and the centrepiece of the exhibition: The sun. Source of light in art.”
However, according to Erik Desmazieres, director Musee Marmottan Monet, the sun was most likely added at the very end by Monet.
“He probably added the sun at the end of the painting. He added this yellowish, red touch, with a reflection in the water at the end. And it gives all the character of the painting,” he says.
Two paintings by William Turner are shown close to the Monet masterpiece.
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