People will be able to get up close to a Monet masterpiece when it goes on show in Hull on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil (1872) is on loan at Ferens Art Gallery as part of The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour.<\/p>\n
Kerri Offord, curator of art at the gallery, said: “The great thing about having it here is we’ve got it on display a bit lower than you’d see it at the National Gallery. You can get a bit closer.”<\/p>\n
The artwork is being shown alongside paintings from the Ferens’ own collection and artworks created by Flourish – a group of disabled and young people from Hull.<\/p>\n
“It’s an amazing opportunity for us,” Offord added.<\/p>\n
“It gives us the opportunity to work with a local community each year when we bring work from the National Gallery. And this year we’ve been working with a group called Flourish and they’ve been responding to the Monet, looking closely, thinking about it from a multi-sensory point of view. <\/p>\n
“They’ve worked with a sound artist, Donna Smith, to create an amazing soundscape which takes you on a little journey down the Seine.<\/p>\n
“And they’ve created a touch Monet that you can come and experience in a way that you can’t with the work from the National Gallery.<\/p>\n
“All those things are in this same gallery that we can experience ourselves, so hopefully it will give you a great opportunity to see the work in a way that you’ve never experienced a Monet before.”<\/p>\n
The painting, which has left the National Gallery only once in the past 20 years, depicts a tranquil scene of a winter’s day on the outskirts of the small suburban town of Argenteuil, not far from Paris.<\/p>\n
Jackie Dad, deputy leader of the council with responsibility for culture, said: “Securing this Monet for the Ferens is a historic moment for Hull’s cultural scene.”<\/p>\n
Monet: Inspiring the Senses will be on display at Ferens Art Gallery until Sunday 13 September and entry is free.<\/p>\n
Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People will be able to get up close to a Monet masterpiece when it goes on show in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}