Paul Serusier, The Talisman (Landscape in the bois d’Amour), 1888. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Join exhibition curator MaryAnne Stevens for a insightful overview of the National Gallery’s fascinating exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art. Celebrate the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and follow the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
A hundred works are on view, from Gustav Klimt and James Ensor to Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondriaan and Wassily Kandinsky, complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel and Käthe Kollwitz. The exhibition reveals the range of creativity which generated new, modern art, free of convention which could encompass Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
With loans from museums and private collections around the world, this exhibition features some of the most important works of art created between 1886 and around 1914.
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art is at the National Gallery from 25 March to 13 August 2023.
Proceeds from our ticket sales benefit museums, galleries and other arts-based organisations and projects.
This is an online event hosted on Zoom which can be watched live, or on-demand for three weeks afterwards. You will receive your link to access the event in your email confirmation and the on-demand link after the event ends.