To reach the Musée d'Art Moderne you'll need to use the underground passageway, which leads from the main entrance of the Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts to Level -2 of the yellow area, whose nineteenth-century, mostly Belgian paintings are spread over five small floors - two underground and three above. Another stairway on Level -2 leads down to the six subterranean half-floors that constitute the green area of twentieth-century works. The green area is comparatively small and has an international flavour, with the work of Belgian artists - including René Magritte and Paul Delvaux - supplemented by the likes of Dalí, Picasso, Chagall, Henry Moore, Miró, Matisse and Francis Bacon.

Social Realists

Level -2 features the work of the Social Realists, whose paintings and sculptures championed the working class. One of the early figures in this movement was Charles de Groux (1825-70), whose paternalistic Poor People's Pew and ...
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David and his contemporaries

Skipping the uninspiring nineteenth-century works of Level -1 , press on up to Level +1 , where the obvious highlight is Jacques-Louis David's famous Death of Marat , a propagandist piece of 1793 showing Jean-Paul Marat,...
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Symbolism and James Ensor

The Symbolists are clustered on Level +2 and amongst them are the disconcerting paintings of Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), a founding member of the Les XX art movement. Khnopff painted his sister, Marguerite, again and again, using her refined,...
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Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Pressing on, Level +3 has a sprinkling of French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists - Monet, Seurat, Gauguin - alongside the studied pointillism of Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), a versatile Brussels artist and founder member of Les...
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Cubists, Expressionists and Fauvists

A stairway leads down from yellow-coded Level -2 to the green area, whose six subterranean half-floors (Levels -3 to -8) hold a diverse collection of modern art and sculpture. It's a challenging collection of international dimensions that...
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Surrealism - Delvaux and Magritte

Level -5/6 is given over to the Surrealists. There's a fine Dalí, The Temptation of St Anthony , a hallucinatory work in which spindly-legged elephants tempt the saint with fleshy women, and a couple of haunting de Chirico paintings of...
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Contemporary art

Down on Level -7/8 , there's some pretty incomprehensible modern stuff, featuring an international range of artists with the displays - and installations - regularly rotated. All the same, you're likely to spot the swirling abstracts of...
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