Museum's collection is quite 'Impressionist'

Aside from works from the Pola Museum's collection, the Shanghai Museum has borrowed artworks from the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, the Anhui Museum and the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai. These paintings by Liu Haisu, Pan Yuliang and others will be displayed alongside paintings created in the 20th century by Japanese and other Asian artists that show how Western art, art education and artistic ideas influenced Asia's art scene.

The sixth chapter Epilogue: Light and Space in Contemporary Art will be presented at Gallery 3, showing Pola's recent acquisitions of contemporary art, offering insights into the creativity of today's artists through photos, videos and installations, showing the artists' love for nature and their pursuit of more powerful expressions of light and color.

The exhibition marks the fifth installment of "A Dialogue With the World Series" of exhibitions at the Shanghai Museum, Chu says. Compared to past exhibitions of Impressionist art in China that featured artworks from Western institutions such as the Musee Marmottan Monet and the Bemberg Foundation in France, the exhibition at the Shanghai Museum is marked by its distinctive Asian perspective, starting from the rise and development of Impressionism to its continuous influence.