This document discusses several major world expositions from the 19th and 20th centuries including the 1851 Great Exhibition in London's Crystal Palace, the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris featuring a Village Nègre, and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago which introduced the Ferris Wheel. It also mentions the 2000 Expo in Hanover and the 2010 Expo in Shanghai. The document then discusses French art in the 19th century, including the influence of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, the Realism movement led by Courbet, and the emergence of Impressionism with Monet focusing on capturing color and light.