Dates

Sat., December 14, 2024 – Sun., May 18, 2025

Venue

Exhibition room 4

In this exhibition, we present a selection of works from the museum collection related to the theme of “form.”

Paul Cézanne, who was deeply attached to the natural environment in his home region of Provence, once wrote, “treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone.” Cézanne reduced natural elements that he observed to pure forms, and with these shapes strove to establish an autonomous pictorial space. His comment served as the impetus for a new art movement at the outset of the 20th century.

After viewing Cézanne’s ingenuous expressions, Pablo Picasso was inspired to move forward with these adventures in shape. He emerged as the darling of the period with a technique known as Cubism in which, after first examining the actual qualities of his subjects from multiple perspectives, he deconstructed them before reconstructing them out of geometric shapes. Following a return to Classicism after the First World War, Picasso embarked on an even freer exploration of form.

The exhibition also includes some of the finest pieces from the museum’s collection of sculpture and glass works, which pursue unique forms in a variety of genres and date from a variety of eras.