Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 102-103. (Budapest, 2005)

ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - A 2005. ÉV - MÓNIKA KUMIN: From Romanticism to Post-Imressionism: New Permanent Exhibition of the Department of Art after 1800

renders the exhibition not only elegant, but also accessible for the viewer, as it encourages the close study of individual artworks. The use of spotlights, in accordance with the demands of a modern museum environment, practically lifts out the paintings from the surface of the wall and heightens the qualities of forms and colour unique to the works. The view of the halls is rendered complete with the new captions, which with their easily legible, shapely letters harmonise with the reserved elegance of the interior. The provenance of the artworks, signalled habitually on the tablets, mirrors the Western, especially French orientation of the progressive art collectors of the turn of the century: Ferenc Hatvány, Adolf Kohner, Marcell Nemes and Mór Lipót Herzog, and at the same time reflects their cosmopolitan attitude. The new permanent exhibition of the 19th and 20th Century Collection aims to demonstrate how the normative intentions of traditional value-judgements can concur with an exceptional aesthetic quality. Monika Kumin NOTES: 1 R. D., "Le nouvel aménagament de la Galerie des Maîtres Anciens et de la Galerie des Tableaux Modernes," Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 12 (1958), 68-73. 2 The re-structuring of cabinets 21 and 22 was supported by MAZARS and BNP Paribas.