![]() ![]() The Israel Museum, Jerusalem is one of the largest art institutions in the Middle Eastern country, with a collection of over 500,000 objects ranging from historical artifacts to fine art pieces. Kang Mi-ran, CEO of Culture & I Leaders, said the exhibit breaks off from the recent surge of interactive and media art exhibitions and brings original works of internationally-renowned painters such as Monet. ![]() "Monet to Cezanne: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterworks from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem" at the Hangaram Art Museum in the Seoul Arts Center in southern Seoul sheds light on how the art movement revolutionized the notion of painting and brought modernity to the art world.Ĭo-hosted by the Seoul Arts Center, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Culture & I Leaders, the exhibit features 106 works of art, including oil paintings, prints and drawings by major Impressionists. However, their new style, shifting interest from traditional subject matters of high society to nature, was criticized for being amateurish and unfinished-looking. "The Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc." included now household names such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro. The first Impressionist exhibition was held in April 1874 at the studio of the photographer Nadar, when it was not conventional to present artwork outside of art galleries. Impressionist art pieces are popular with contemporary museumgoers, but the style was not always so popular. ![]() A visitor takes a picture of Claude Monet's 1907 painting "Pond with Water Lilies" during a press preview of "Monet to Cezanne: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterworks from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem" at the Hangaram Art Museum in the Seoul Arts Center in southern Seoul, Thursday. ![]()
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