From Monet to Andy Warhol: Over 60,000 Visitors at Busan Cultural Center Special Exhibition

Record-Breaking Attendance... 400 Years of Western Art Masterpieces

July 2 - October 27, Exhibition Hall at Busan Cultural Center

The exhibition “400 Years of Western Art, Read Through Masterpieces: From Monet to Andy Warhol” at the Busan Cultural Center (CEO Cha Jaekeun) has surpassed 60,000 visitors in just over 100 days since its opening on July 2, demonstrating its record-breaking popularity.

From Monet to Andy Warhol Posters.

This exhibition, co-hosted by the Busan Cultural Center and the cultural content company Gaudium Associates, has been curated to provide an overview of 400 years of Western art history through 143 pieces from the collection of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the National Gallery of South Africa.

This marks the first major exhibition of masterpieces in Busan in 13 years, since the 2011 exhibition of works from the Saint-Etienne Museum at the Busan Museum of Art, and has attracted significant attention even before its opening.

“400 Years of Western Art, Read Through Masterpieces: From Monet to Andy Warhol” is organized into nine sections, allowing visitors to experience the flow of art history over four centuries, from 17th-century Dutch Golden Age art, Victorian-era British Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Romanticism, Barbizon School masterpieces, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Nabis and Cubism, to 20th-century British and American contemporary art.

Featured artists include William Turner, the national painter of Britain; John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti from the Victorian Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Jean-Francois Millet and Camille Corot of the Barbizon School; realist Gustave Courbet; Eugene Boudin, the pioneer of Impressionism, and his student Claude Monet; Edgar Degas; Alfred Sisley; Post-Impressionists Paul Signac, Lucien Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, and Vincent van Gogh; Nabis artists Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, and Maurice Denis; Fauvist Henri Matisse; Cubist Pablo Picasso; and 20th-century contemporary art masters Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and David Hockney.

Additionally, visitors can view 25 works by major South African artists, including contemporary master William Kentridge, who are not yet well known in Korea.

“From Monet to Andy Warhol,” running from July 2 to October 27, is closed on Mondays. Tickets are priced at 20,000 KRW for adults (20 and older), 16,000 KRW for middle and high school students (ages 14-19), and 12,000 KRW for elementary students (ages 3-13).

Discounts are available for regular members of the Busan Cultural Center, national merit recipients, and people with disabilities. To celebrate surpassing 60,000 visitors, there are also discounts for returning visitors and one accompanying person, as well as SNS events.

Tickets and detailed information are available on the Busan Cultural Center website, Ticketlink, Naver, and Kakao.

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