“The European Avant-Garde: From Impressionism to Cubism”

How did painting get from Monet’s shimmering landscapes to Picasso breaking the world into pieces? The exhibition brings together just 14 works by Pissarro, Monet, Gauguin, Kandinsky, and Picasso, among others. These aren’t just famous names in one room. They capture the significance of a transformative period when color escaped its descriptive role, space fractured, and recognizable forms became less bound to what the eye could see. Meet these art-history giants off the textbook page and consider it a crash course in how painting started to break its own rules. – Maryam Muliaee