Turin and Edgar Degas - A Weekend in a Wonderful City Called Turin Admiring an Unique Exhibtion in honour of Edgar Degas,the French Master of Impressionism until the 27th January 2013.Visit the Piedmont Capital of Art,History and Culture.

 Autumn is a great season to do tourism,Art Exhibitions are always a great reason to organise a trip,a weekend everywhere discovering new places,new cities and a reason more when there are important events that you can not see every day.In autumn many important museums and galleries are great incentives for travelling,there are a myriad of important opportunities to visit fantastic exhibition thanks to the cooperation between cities and museums.It is the case of Paris and Turin,the charming capital of Piedmont and the wonderful Ville Lumiere,Paris.The Musée D´Orsay of Paris gave Turin the brilliant chance to expose in the Palazzina Della Societá Promotrice delle Belle Arti di Torino an unique and splendid exhibition named Capolavori dal Museo D´Orsay,(Masterpieces from Orsay Museum) displaying 80 paintings by the Master Edgar Degas,80 splendid works by the French genius of Impressionism coming from the Parisian Museum,at Turin until the 27th January 2013.

Degas was a very special artist,he  often refused to be considered and classified as an inpressionist and he proclaimed himself to be a realist,anyway he was one of the most distinguished talented artist of the 19th century,a prominent pioneer of a different style of that movement called Impressionism,a  great painter but also sculptor who conquered fans worldwide thanks to his unique style so different from many other Impressionists of that period.

Impressionism is a kind of art deep,sometimes misterious ,sometimes difficult to classify artists,but it is a movement very fascinating.This style of art is the result of many components, the inspiration of painting connected to other arts as music,poetry, theatre and literature,and a highlight of this movement was of course the way to shape and develop the images with special bright,colours and light reflections,

Impressionism is to give light to an image creating an impression,the light is the centre of the attention and the work is all that created in a spontaneous way,the creation and and the inspiration and the quality of many Impressionist artists was the fast instinct,improvising often what they saw or imagined in  a concrete moment giving priority to the lights and painting outdoors with natural light .

Degas was different,an Universal Impressionist if we can use this two words,he used the colours of the classical Impressionist but giving importance to the human subject,he never forgot or ignored the art of the past,he transported in the Impressionism painting action of humans,ballet with dancers,orchestras with musicians,acrobats in the circusm,more than other Impressionists he painted  nude female figures,further more unlike other impressionists he loved to paint with artificial light.

Degas declared he needed a fictitious life to create his particular lines and shades with his own imagination,the artificial light was for him that fictious life he needed to create his masterpieces.The imaginative talent of Degas could be considered photographic,the Parisian master have been for a short time an amateur photographer and that probably helped him a lot to be different from others in his works,the expressions of his human subjects are very different than other famous Impressionist masters as Renoir,Corot and Monet.

The Exhibition of Turin is almost a record in the last 15 years in Italy because no other galleries received so many masterpieces from a foreign Museum or Art Gallery of this value,and never the Musée D´Orsay gave to another museum so many works of one of the most representative artists of its art gallery.Among the 80 works you can admire in Turin some of the best Degas paintings all time such as Portrait of Bellelli Family,Tests of ballet on stage,Bathers on the grass and Defilé.

Turin is a beautiful city  very attractive to the visitor,with its majestic Royal Palace,the impressive Mole Antonelliana, the charming Carignano Palace and Madama Palace,the Egyptian Museum one of the most important in the World,the Museum of the Sindone,the elegant and beautiful Valentino Castle and its marvellous Park,a big number of Baroque ,Neoclassical, Rococó and Art Nouveuau Palaces,charming squares,Turin is the first Italian Capital,ancient Roman city and it is one of the Italian cities with more elegant cafes located under chic arcades in beautiful wide squares.Further more in this city you can visit several museums as the Car Museum you are in the Fiat city and the majestic Basilica of Superga only some km outside Turin and the list of attractions of the capital of Piedmont is really very long..

In Tourism Industry there are always infinitive solutions,art tourism in autumn is one of them,Degas and Turin are a great combination to spend a fantastic weekend in a beautiful city,until the 27th January 2013,

Francesco Mari

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