ABU DHABI — A major exhibition of
impressionist art opened Wednesday at the Louvre
Abu Dhabi, featuring works
from masters such as Cezanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir.
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Billed as one of the most significant exhibitions on
the 19th century art movement ever held outside France, it features more than
150 works on loan from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
Claude Monet’s “Women in the Garden” is among the
masterpieces on show from the movement characterized by rapid dabs and
brushstrokes that explore the transient effects of light and color.
“Impressionism: Pathways to Modernity”, to run until
February 5, marks five years since the opening of the art museum in the capital
of the UAE.
It also features etchings, costumes, photos and film
on the rebellious and convention-busting art movement born as industrialization
and urbanization brought social upheaval in Europe.
That theme resonates in today’s
Gulf region, “where
we also face the challenge of this modernity and this transition to a new
world”, said Sylvie Patry, general curator of the Musee d’Orsay.
French President
Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the
Louvre Abu Dhabi in 2007 in the Emirates, one of the world’s leading oil
exporters and largest arms buyers.
Louvre Abu Dhabi director Manuel Rabate said one of
the “fundamental missions” of the museum was to “present the great movements of
the history of art such as Impressionism”.
“To tell the story of Impressionism, you have to
have the incredible loans that come from the Musee d’Orsay”.
To mark its first
five years, the Louvre Abu Dhabi acquired a special birthday gift, for an
undisclosed price — Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s masterpiece “The Cup of Chocolate”.
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