In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Museum of East Texas (MET) presents Impressionists Immersive to visitors through May 22 with free admission.
The exhibit was created in Spain and has toured Europe as well as three locations in the United States with more than1.5 million people seeing it worldwide before coming to East Texas.
Impressionists is the first immersive exhibition to cover a whole artistic movement rather than a single artist. It illustrates and brings to life the revolutionary Impressionists movement; the most important pictorial change since the Renaissance. It covers the 10 most important painters: Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Morisot (one of the first woman painters to use her own name) as well as Manet, Degas, Pissarro, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
The museum’s main gallery is transformed into an immersive room with more than 1,000 moving masterpieces projected on a 2300 square-foot immersive screen with narration and music. The presentation is approximately 35-minutes long.
Other rooms in the museum house interactive 3D panels that provide a clear and simplified explanation of the historical context, including biographies of the most relevant masters, the influences of Impressionism, key innovations, and the techniques and modern art that followed this movement.
The museum has fun sets for selfies to encourage audience participation and posting of photos on social media. Visitors can plan on spending an hour and a half taking it all in. Reservations are encouraged.
