Impressionism on the Streets of Rouen

The Normandy Impressionist Festival is in full swing, with an impressive and diverse programme of events taking place throughout Normandy, some of which last up until November. Most however end in September. So if you are planning to come to Normandy, or have been thinking about it – it really is not too late to catch some of the Normandie Impressionniste 2010 buzz.

Rouen is a focus for this exhibition, for all sorts of reasons, and the organising committee and the various administrative departments in the city have not wasted any opportunity to associate the usual annual events that take place in that city with the Impressionist Festival. For example, the inauguration of Arne Quinze’s installation ‘Camille’ on Rouen’s Bastille Day celebrations.

And, for Impressionist fans like myself, Impressionism is really everywhere in the city of Rouen. I thought I would share these photographs with MGN readers who were not able to make it to Rouen, or Normandy to enjoy the Festival. The image above is a standard poster advertising the exhibition in the Fine Arts Museum of Rouen – one of the highlights in which are 8 versions of Monet’s painting of the Rouen cathedral. In the photograph below the logo of the ‘Normandie Impressionniste 2010′ festival is projected onto one of the administrative buildings for the Department of Seine Maritime.

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