{"id":29552,"date":"2025-07-28T14:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29552\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:17:16","slug":"liverpool-claude-monet-exhibition-will-bring-his-work-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29552\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Claude Monet exhibition &#8216;will bring his work to life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jermaine Foster &amp; Paul Burnell<\/p>\n<p>BBC News, Liverpool<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753147568_960_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a1eabc10-6644-11f0-9e1b-1936d0fa2f8b.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Jermaine Foster\/BBC A young couple dressed in black stand to view a projection of one of Claude Monet's paintings, in which sailing ships are depicted in a harbour.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Jermaine Foster\/BBC<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to &#8220;go beyond the frame&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An exhibition designed to &#8220;bring to life&#8221; more than 400 paintings by the renowned Impressionist artist Claude Monet has come to Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Beyond Monet, at Liverpool Exhibition Centre, uses projection technology to allow visitors to experience pieces including Water Lilies, Impression, Sunrise, and Poppies at Argenteuil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;What we have done is to imagine if we went with Monet to all the different locations he painted all over Europe,&#8221; said the exhibition&#8217;s creative director Mathieu St-Arnaud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Visitors to the exhibition, which runs until 15 August, will see huge projections of Monet&#8217;s work beamed on to walls and other surfaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr St-Anaud advised people attending the exhibition to &#8220;just let go and don&#8217;t think about art &#8211; experience it as an image as Monet felt when he first saw it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Anna Perry, the project&#8217;s business development director, said Liverpool was chosen to host the first exhibition in Europe following the &#8220;overwhelming success&#8221; of the UK premiere of Beyond Van Gogh last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She also said the Liverpool Exhibition Centre team were &#8220;phenomenal to work with&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753147568_960_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/16ad2d30-6645-11f0-9e1b-1936d0fa2f8b.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mathieu St-Arnaud Mathieu St-Arnaud has short receding brown hair with a brown beard specked with grey and large caramel-coloured spectacles.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Mathieu St-Arnaud<\/p>\n<p>Creative director Mathieu St-Arnaud advises visitors to &#8220;experience&#8221; art rather than think about it<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ms Perry praised the city&#8217;s &#8220;culture and acceptance of art and entertainment and the value that people put in it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She said: &#8220;It just felt like there was no other place that we could premiere this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;It has only been seen in North America before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ms Perry said the immersive exhibition &#8220;really allows people to tap into elements that they might not have been aware that they were going to be exposed to or feel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She added: &#8220;They see the artwork around them, they see it on the floor, they hear the sounds, and I think people just get really blown away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Because children can run around &#8220;and feel like they&#8217;ve gone inside paintings&#8221; it is a great first art exhibition for youngsters, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ms Perry said Beyond Van Gogh would also return to Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Paris-born Monet, who was born in 1840 and died in 1926, is acknowledged as the founder of the Impressionism movement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753147568_960_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/e71b4a20-6644-11f0-9e1b-1936d0fa2f8b.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Jermaine Foster\/BBC Many people sitting down to view projected images of Monet's Impressionist paintings, depicting ships in a harbour.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Jermaine Foster\/BBC<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition organisers say children running around can feel like they are &#8220;inside the painting&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jermaine Foster &amp; Paul Burnell BBC News, Liverpool Jermaine Foster\/BBC Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to &#8220;go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-29552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}