About this experience
Orsay houses dozens of works by such masters of Impressionism as Renoir, Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Degas. The tour will start with realism, the Barbizon school, and Impressionism, and will end with Symbolism, Divisionism, and Fauvism.
What to Expect
For many, the Orsay Museum in Paris is the museum of the Impressionists. For this reason alone, this museum is included in the list of must-visit places.
However, Orsay is much more than just the museum of the Impressionists. Firstly, the museum's collection is a continuation of the Louvre, as it presents works of art created between 1848 and 1914. Secondly, the museum was conceived as a place that allows its visitors to understand and experience the life and societal changes that occurred in Europe and the world in the second half of the 19th century. It was a century of inventions and industrial progress, an era that saw the Eiffel Tower, photography, radio, and the first cinemas. It was a period when new cities were being rapidly built and old ones rebuilt - including Paris.
When it comes to art, it was also a tumultuous and revolutionary age. Every 10 years, new movements and trends in painting were born. During the tour, we will delve into a true jungle of the so-called '...isms.' We will start with realism, the Barbizon school, and Impressionism, and end with Symbolism, Divisionism, and Fauvism.
Among the masterpieces of the Orsay Museum are Millet's The Angelus, which obsessed Salvador Dali, the unforgettable paintings of Henri Rousseau, whom we all saw on the walls of our elementary school art classes, the scandalous Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass by Édouard Manet, the beginning of the world by Courbet, Degas' incomparable ballerinas, Toulouse-Lautrec's pastels, Cézanne's card players, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Gauguin's Breton women and Tahitian maidens.
Come and see for yourself!
