Friday, May 3, 12 – 1pm
Claude Monet. The Studio Boat (detail), 1876. BF730. Public Domain.
Free; registration required.
About the Talk
André Dombrowski: “Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time”
On-Site & Online Talk | Member Appreciation Days
Claude Monet was the consummate artist of all things quick. A painter of instants, moments, and evanescent ripples on water, he showed an acute awareness of the modern pressures of time in his works. Monet’s informal impressionism chronicled constant shifts in the weather, season, and time of day.
In this talk, art historian André Dombrowski examines Monet’s groundbreaking temporal style in the context of scientific, technological, and economic innovations of his day—especially the synchronization and standardization of timekeeping. Using examples from his latest book, Monet’s Minutes, Dombrowski reveals how modern time structures affected Monet’s paintings at train stations and his planning for larger series.
Members are invited to join us in the Comcast NBCUniversal Auditorium on the Lower Level at the Barnes or online via livestream. Online registrants will be emailed a link to access the talk on Thursday, May 2.
About the Speaker
André Dombrowski
Dombrowski is the Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th-Century European Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His 2013 book, Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life, won the Phillips Book Prize, and his latest book, Monet's Minutes (Yale University Press, 2023), explores the relationship between the impressionist instant and the modern experience of time.
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