You’ll recognise the water lilies Monet painted at his garden at Giverney, the ballerinas Degas captured practising at the barre, Renoir’s full-busted barmaids and Toulouse-Lautrec’s glimpses into Paris’s seedier side.
How the Monet & Friends exhibition will look when it opens at Sydney’s Hall of Industries.
Once maligned by the art establishment, these bohemian French Impressionists are now universally admired: treasured by the world’s greatest art galleries. Yet you won’t have seen them as they’ll be displayed at Monet & Friends – Life, Light & Colour which premieres at Sydney’s Royal Hall of Industries in March.
Nor will you have enjoyed them to synchronised sounds of their musical contemporaries: Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Ravel. Or gazed at their masterpieces smelling the seductive aromas – cypress, nutmeg, sandalwood -they experienced pioneering painting “en plein air”.
“We’re the only company in the world which takes this multi-sensory approach to exhibitions and experiences,” claims Bruce Peterson, founder of Melbourne-based Grande Experiences. “We integrate as many of the human senses as we can, intertwining them so the visitor has much a more emotional experience.”
