"Normandie — L'Estuaire de la Seine: L'Invention d'Un Paysage" ("Normandy — The Seine Estuary: The invention of a Landscape" is an exhibition at the Sompo Japan Museum of Art that recently changed its name to Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art. Just as the museum's name is rather too long — something to do with changes in the corporation that owns it — so the title of this exhibition feels elongated and cumbersome.
This is because the title is struggling to present a lot of important information up front. The art is mainly 19th-century, with some early 20th-century overlap, and is of course connected to Normandy. But, alas, Normandy may evoke only the vaguest ideas among the public, so it is important to remind them that it is on the coast and connected to Paris, hence the mention of the Seine Estuary.
With this and the reference to landscape, the expectation raised is of a very "Parisian" artistic experience of rural land- and seascape, while the word "invention," hinting at artistic innovation, can perhaps be seen as an allusion to Impressionism.
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