The Vancouver Art Gallery will present the most comprehensive showing of European painting and sculpture in Canada with the exhibition Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. On view through September 16, 2007, the exhibition includes paintings by such masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Seurat and van Gogh, representing the largest showing of European art ever presented in Vancouver.
Drawn from one of the finest museum collections of its kind, the exhibition consists of more than 80 paintings, as well as drawings and sculpture, illustrating key examples from the European Modernist movement. Organized into four areas, Monet to Dalí covers a century of art making from 1864 to 1964, showcasing important work by major Impressionists, Henri Fantin-Latour Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867 oil on fabric Post-Impressionists, early Modern sculptors and avant-garde artists interested in Dadaism, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lewis C. Williams Cubism and Surrealism. The exhibition reveals an artistic innovation that profoundly changed the course of European art history and established the new path of modern art across the western world.
"We are extremely proud and excited to bring this exceptional showing of European modern art to Vancouver," said Vancouver Art Gallery director Kathleen Bartels. "This exhibition will make Vancouver a cultural hotspot this summer. Seeing this superb work together in one place is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that will attract more than 200,000 visitors seeking a personal encounter with some of history's finest artists."
19th- and early 20th-century European art – one of the most significant collections in the world. The exhibition will provide a rare occasion for Canadians to view a comprehensive gathering of paintings by some of the most important modern masters of the last two centuries. This significant collection of works is touring exclusively during the Cleveland Museum of Art's renovation and expansion project. Opening in Beijing, China, the exhibition travelled to Tokyo and Seoul, before its presentation at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It will travel on to Cleveland for its United States debut as the inaugural exhibition at the CMA's newly expanded facility.
Included in Monet to Dalí are a number of significant groupings of works by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Auguste Rodin and Pablo Picasso, among others. In the diversity of styles, the great enterprise of art is presented through many different lenses, filtered by different disciplines. Of great importance are Paul Gauguin In the Waves (Dans les vagues), 1889 the geographic centrality of Paris in the development of new artistic oil on fabric ideas and the defining effect of French culture, both of which were influential in northern Europe and the British Isles. The exhibition traces the profound impact Impressionism had on the relationship of painting to reality. It also illustrates the Andrew Riley accelerated artistic development that was especially dramatic between 1850 and 1950, including the invention of new pictorial structures such as Cubism's innovative depictions of three-dimensional space and the use of colour to illuminate the visual experience. -- www.vanartgallery.bc.ca
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