Beyond Impressionism:
Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
 
The National Museum of Korea (Director Kim Youngna) will be presenting the special exhibition, Beyond Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay on May 3. This exhibition examines the dramatic change in European art and life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exhibition is organized with the scientific collaboration and the exceptional loans of the Musée d’Orsay. Later works from artists such as Claude Monet and Henri Rousseau convey the domineering personalities and acute minds of these legendary artists. The exhibition features over 170 works of various media—including photography, sculpture, drawing, and crafts—all of which were specially selected from the renowned collection of the Musée d’Orsay.

Distinctive and colorful masterworks are displayed, ranging from the late impressionism, the Neo-Impressionist paintings that applied scientific optical theory, Paul Gaugauin and Pont-Aven School artists who left the modernized city for the primitive life, the unique and distinctive worlds of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, and the Symbolist works representing the end-of-century sentiments. The collection, bringing together the workings of the nature, the primitive life and the world of dreams and the subconscious by bold colors and flat picture planes that have reached beyond the Impressionism, demonstrates the evolving of the modern art.

The exhibition will transport the visitors to the modern city of Paris in the nineteenth century. Drawings of architecture and photographs of the city renovations will visualize the making of Paris as we know it today, followed by portraits, drawings and art nouveau works that illustrates the Parisian life in the Belle Époque. The works that depict the Parisian streets or the various images of Tour d’Eiffel as the symbol of modernity, will also help to portray the different faces of modern Paris.

Beyond Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents a rare opportunity to meet the celebrated masterpieces of the Musée d’Orsay. Bringing forth the very spirit of the artists who have illuminated the turn of the twentieth century, and the life in Paris. This exhibition will be open until August 31 with many special lectures and cultural event to come. More information will be available at http://www.orsay2014.co.kr or T.02-325-1077.
 Exhibition Summary

○ Exhibition Title: Beyond Impressionism, Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
○ Date and Location: 5.3.2014 - 8.31.2014 / Special Exhibition Gallery
○ Exhibition Objects: 175 pieces of paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and craftworks including Claude Monet’s “Woman with an Umbrella Turned to the Right“
○ Host: National Museum of Korea, Musée d’Orsay
○ Supervision: GNC Media(T. 02-325-1077)
○ Admission Time : Tue/Thu/Fri 09:00~18:00, Wed/Sat 09:00~21:00, Sun/Holiday 09:00~19:00
○ Admission Fee(won): Adult 12,000, Middle and High School Student 10,000, Elementary School Student 8,000, Over 65 years 6,000
○ Website : www.orsay2014.co.kr