Degas to Picasso

Selected Masterpieces from the Collection of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow

The uniquely significant exhibition is open till April 25, so for those who do not want to miss the special occasion, approximately 10 days left to visit the exposition in the Museum of Fine Arts. The show includes 55 paintings from the collection of Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Visitors can recognize the most famous pieces of Courbet, Corot, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso and others, which are obviously well-known for most of us from art albums. Most of these works are presented in Hungary for the very first time.

The paintings supply visitors with a chronological overview of Impressionism,  Symbolism, and the first avant-garde movements, such as Fauves and Cubists. Thus, guests can study a selection of French paintings from the late 19th century and from the beginning of the 20th century.

It is interesting to note, that the exhibited works of art originate from the collections of two exceptional Russian art collectors, Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin. These two art dealers belonged to the new burgeois class of the late 19th century Russia and devoted a significant amount of their fortune and time to support unrecognized artists, who were not accepted by their contemporaries that time. Due to their graceful activity, masterpieces, like Picasso's Acrobat and Young Harlequin or Monet's Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies await visitors now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.

3 in 1 exhibition

3 in 1 exhibition in Hungarian National Museum

‘Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition’ accompanied with the exhibition of ‘The World of Fashion in Pictures – Yesterday & Today’ and with a presentation about the history of photography
Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition, which is organized for the 28th time in Hungary, presents Hungarian press photos of 2009. The pictures represent various topics from several fields, such as arts, sports, or nature. Visitors can experience again the most exciting, dramatic, or joyful moments of the last year via the professional photos. Not only Hungarian internal affairs are displayed in the exhibition, such as locations of Roma-murders, verdict in the case of Olaszliszka, or inauguration of the new Prime Minister, but also the most significant international affairs are represented, for example Felipe Massa’s grave accident and everyday life in the war-stricken territories of Afghanistan. Some less serious topics include, for example, the most significant contemporary literary figures of Hungary, the 125-years-old Opera House, and the 120-years-old Hungarian National Circus.

Maybe we are not all familiar with the fact, that Hungary has provided the world with not only famous photographers but with genius and talented fashion photographers as well, whose works are displayed along with the aforementioned exhibition. The second photo-exhibition in the museum, which is entitled ‘The World of Fashion in Pictures – Yesterday & Today’ shows gorgeous fashion photos of the past century and nowadays as well. Visitors can have an insight both into the world of fashion and into the history of photography via the exhibition.

Finally, the exhibitions are completed with a thorough exposure on the history and the development of the different technologies in photography.


The exhibition is open till April 25th.

Glenn Brown's exhibition in Budapest

"art as language"

Contemporary British painter's thorough exhibition in Ludwig Museum, Budapest

Glenn Brown is a contemporary British painter whose originality, in a paradox way, includes questioning the existence of originality. He often parodies and reproduces well-known and unknown artists' work of arts by comparing and contrasting different eras and techniques in a wonderfully ironical way. According to Brown, there is no 'originality' in painting; all works are related to each other as parts of the artistic canon. Due to his special approach to the interdepencies, he was once sued by the Dalí Foundation, because he copied and reworked some of Dalí's paintings among others.
The British artist wants to emphasize the interrelations among the different elements of pop culture while mixing various techniques and reproducing already existing paintings.

The exhibition is open till April 11 in Ludwig Museum, Budapest.

For further details please visit the museum's website.

Here, you will find some paintings of Brown as an appetizer.