BEIJING, CHINA - Beijing's World Art Museum presents the exhibit From Monet to Picasso: Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The show brings together approximately one hundred of the museum’s most acclaimed European paintings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  The exhibition features works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí, setting them within the broader framework of the groupings The Impressionist Epoch, Post-Impressionism, Early Modernist Sculpture, and Age of the Avante-Gardes.

Stellar works by lesser known artists, such as Albert Besnard, Eugène Jansson, and Giovanni Segantini, complement works by their more well-known contemporaries.  Together the works illuminate the breadth of creativity in one of the most extraordinary epochs in the history of art.

Claude Monet and his friends rejected the neoclassical imagery officially sanctioned by the Second Republic as imperial propaganda, and the academic exercise of drawing plaster casts as fear of reality.  They hated working in a dusty atelier and painting in grays and browns that reminded them of mud, or worse. While working outdoors they discovered their real subject: a personal response to the natural world.

Beijing World Art Museum provides a self-contained environment for high-level art exhibitions, with its modern displaying equipment and high-tech system integration progressing with the world.  The audience can not only appreciate all kinds of artistic works of excellent quality, but also can feel the visual shock brought by the digital image technique and enjoyment produced by the perfect combination of art and scientific technology.