Despite the luminous names, this Art Institute show misses its mark. | ✍️ Dmitry Samarov
, Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by Mrs. Mark C. Steinberg by exchange 579:1958.
Vincent van Gogh is to art museums what the Beatles or Jimi Hendrix are to the recording industry—times are tough or run out of ideas? Trot out tried-and-true cash cows and sit counting the receipts. To buttress their case, the Art Institute has filled out their slate of summer blockbusters with another dead-too-soon ringer, Georges Seurat , and three minor stars: Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand.
There are multiple depictions of parks, bridges, and suburban restaurants done between 1882 and 1890 near the Seine river, on the outskirts of Paris. No whiff of a grand statement or revolutionary achievement to be found for miles. It’s a snapshot of friends taking it easy. The shadow of Seurat’shangs heavy over the entire show, with half a dozen painted and drawn studies for the museum’s calling-card masterpiece included, but the overall impression is of artists treading water.
, adults $32 , seniors 65+, students, and teens 14-17 $26 , children and under 14 and Chicago teens 14-17 freeI rarely read wall labels in art exhibitions as I find the verbiage gets in the way of my experience. My goal is to have a one-on-one reckoning with what I’m looking at without someone else’s words confusing or directing my reaction.
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