How is impressionism sung?

While the exhibition “Paris 1874, inventing impressionism” opened this week at the Musée d’Orsay, let’s listen to how the singers talk about Monet, Renoir and their traveling companions.

It was an exhibition at the Grand Palais. As this song by Yves Duteil was released in 1987, we can imagine that he is talking about the Monet exhibition of 1980 or the Renoir exhibition of 1985, perhaps also thinking a little of the Manet exhibition of 1983 In any case, he sees splendors.

Maybe the exhibition Paris 1874, inventing impressionism, which opened this week at the Musée d’Orsay, will it in turn give rise to other future songs. Because, once again, we have the opportunity, by contemplating these paintings, to return to the singular gaze of these painters.

In the second episode of These songs that make the news broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

Yves Duteil, Impressionist look, 1987

Léo Ferré, It’s spring, 1958

Jean Ferrat, Song for you, 1963

Jean Ferrat, Nothing to see, 1969

Jacques Brel, See, 1958

Serge Reggiani, And I paint my life, 1990

Léo Ferré, Preface, 1973

Juliet, Love in dotted lines, 1996

Charles Aznavour, And paint, 2005

Yves Duteil, Impressionist look, 1987

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