Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy
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On this day 1981 the Humber Bridge opened
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Just been in ferens to see the Claude Monet they’ve just put in
Delve into Claude Monet’s world of composition and colour, and experience his work as never before with sound, smell and touch transporting you into his artwork.
Monet’s The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil (1872) is presented at the Ferens Art Gallery in a multi-sensory exhibition inspired by the artist and his work.
On loan to the Ferens as part of The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2025–27, the Monet will be shown alongside paintings from the Ferens’ own collection. Flourish, a group of disabled and/or neurodivergent children and young people from Hull, have created multisensory artworks including canvases inspired by Monet. They have also contributed to an immersive soundscape, produced by local music practitioner, Donna Smith.
Free entry
Delve into Claude Monet’s world of composition and colour, and experience his work as never before with sound, smell and touch transporting you into his artwork.
Monet’s The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil (1872) is presented at the Ferens Art Gallery in a multi-sensory exhibition inspired by the artist and his work.
On loan to the Ferens as part of The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2025–27, the Monet will be shown alongside paintings from the Ferens’ own collection. Flourish, a group of disabled and/or neurodivergent children and young people from Hull, have created multisensory artworks including canvases inspired by Monet. They have also contributed to an immersive soundscape, produced by local music practitioner, Donna Smith.
Free entry
It's great that Ferens is free entry. I do like Monet's 'Petite Bras' although I prefer his follow up, 'massive boobies'. Yes I know I am childish
Neither are as good as Norks By The Seine, probably his best work.
Whilst I think it’s absolutely great that they’re doing this sort of thing, and the exhibition in general was good and interesting, sadly for me it’s a really ordinary painting. He’s undoubtedly a great artist but this is nowhere near his best and ‘masterpiece’ is pushing it a bit.
I remember seeing it at the National Gallery previously and being pretty underwhelmed then too. As I said the exhibition is decent though and well worth a visit.
Would that be from his Madonna era?
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I often think about the classic painters and that I don't know what makes a great painting. I wanted to post about David Hockney last week but wasn't the right time. But his work generally looks like one of my grandkids has painted it. I don't think he would have passed his O Level Art in my class.
I know nothing about art appreciation but if I see a painting, i could guess if it was a hockney, or at least someone copying his style. So I guess it's the originality and individual way of painting he created.
Apparently his back catalogue is valued at over a billion, so someone knows something you or I don't...
I love art galleries and know what I like. Some of it leaves me scratching my head. The turner prize during the City of Culture was absolute dog however.
There’s nothing wrong with that. Everyone’s free to like what they like.
And without meaning to be rude as you’ve hinted at it anyway I think, I imagine most of us could be ‘trained’ to appreciate art that we don’t by better understanding why / how it came about and what it means (which is not to say that some of it really just isn’t very good), which the exhibition does a great job of in principle.
Monet was a genius and I’ve been to Giverny and loved it. But It’s more the idea that anything painted by him or any other great artist must be a masterpiece that winds me up - I can broadly accept that Lionel Messi was the best footballer of the last few years, but if he skies a penalty way over the bar then I’d be allowed to think it was a **** penalty and move on, but in the art world there’s this mystique that if I think it’s poor then I must have just not understood what the maestro meant by kicking the ball over the bar.
Knew you'd get it.The fallen Madonna with the big boobies?
It's our time.
