Metropolitan Museum tour (Hebrew)

*Museum tickets are included, we buy your tickets, please do not purchase your tickets independently.

This tour invites us to step into 19th-century Paris — a moment when art begins to change fundamentally.
Through works by Courbet, Manet, Renoir, Morisot, Monet, and Van Gogh, we will trace the transition from Realism to Impressionism and the birth of the modern gaze: painting that not only describes the world, but examines how we experience it.
During the tour, we will discover how paintings that seemed scandalous or unfinished in their time changed the way we look at art. We will explore 19th-century Paris — the modern city that was rebuilt — its parks, cafés, and leisure life that became central subjects in painting. We will see how the Impressionists developed a new pictorial language based on light, color, and free brushwork, and how later artists like Van Gogh turned painting into a deep expression of emotion and inner experience.
But this is also a story about women. The women who appear in paintings — models, bourgeois women, figures of the new city — and the women who stood behind the brush. We will examine how the figure of the woman changes: from an idealized object of the gaze to a modern woman who looks back at the viewer, and how artists like Berthe Morisot operate within a system that was not built for them.
The tour combines fascinating stories about the artists' lives, artistic scandals, and offers a new way of looking at familiar works. This is an encounter with a moment when art becomes more personal, more daring, and perhaps more honest.