
Viewing Room
MODERN MASTERS
Opera Gallery is pleased to present Modern Masters , an online exhibition
featuring a curated selection of 15 museum quality paintings and works on paper by Henri Matisse, Fernand
Léger, Kees Van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró and Alberto Giacometti. This exhibition
celebrates the spirit and genius of extraordinary artists whose insight and vision produced crowning
achievements in Modern art and culture.These Modern Masters strove to renew art, to liberate it both from copying nature and blind adherence to
academic traditions. They formed the earliest avant-garde of the 20th century, which arose in France as a
reaction to Impressionism. These artists turned to bright colours, deliberate chromatic contrasts, rough,
passionate brushwork, simplified form, light and shade without half-tones and smooth transitions.Modern Masters is a journey of startling colour and form, groundbreaking endeavour, and bold leaps of the
imagination; it captures the ebullience, idealism and confidence of artists as they freed themselves from
tradition.



