Museum announces Year of the Snake lineup

The Pola Museum in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan, houses one of the most significant collections of Impressionist art in Asia. Shanghai Museum will work with Pola Museum and Nikkei Inc to present at its new venue on the eastern bank of the Huangpu River the largest international show organized by the Pola Museum.

Featuring a range of work from Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Yayoi Kusama, the exhibition is the first time Shanghai Museum presents a panoramic showcase of Impressionism — its beginning, development, expansion and continual impact on the later art scene, according to Chu.

"This visual feast will not only focus on the visual and aesthetic preferences of Impressionist art from an Asian perspective, but it also uses light, shadow and nature to connect the significance of Impressionism to post-Fauvism, Cubism and contemporary art, and to show the eternal creativity and innovative spirit of art," he says.