Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"25th Machida City Public Elementary & Junior High School Art Exhibition"
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[0]- Media: Painting
- 2012-01-07 - 2012-02-12
Features the work of local school children, divided into three sessions of fine art, arts and crafts, and calligraphy.More »
Yoko Tanaka Exhibition
[1] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2012-01-05 - 2012-04-01
Yoko Tanaka (1947-2008) was a woodblock print artist known for pursing the potential for color and dynamics in the genre. [Image: Yoko Tanaka (1987) Woodblock print]More »
"Present for You: New Acquisitions" Exhibition
[4] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2012-01-05 - 2012-02-12
Features newly acquired works in the collection. [Image: Hasui Kawase (1920) Woodblock print]More »
36th All-Japan University Print Exhibition
[2] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2011-12-03 - 2011-12-18
Professional printmaking classes were first introduced at Japanese universities in the 1950s. This year marks the 36th annual all-Japan university print exhibition, an event that has been hosted by the...More »
"The Cabinet of Curiosities" Exhibition
[9] [2]- Media: Prints
- 2011-10-08 - 2011-11-23
Features around 200 prints and publications centering on the theme of the European cabinet of curiosities. More »
"Tibet Buddhist Prints: Unknown World" Exhibition
[9] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2011-09-28 - 2011-12-23
Introduces the extraordinary Buddhist prints from the Tibetan town of Dege.More »
"Cutting Across Japan" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2011-08-13 - 2011-09-25
This exhibition takes visitors on a tour of Japan through a series of 120 prints, including ukiyo-e works from the late Edo period and other pieces dating from the Meiji period and later.More »
"French Poetry and Prints" Exhibition
[5] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2011-06-18 - 2011-08-07
On display are some 180 works, mostly collections of prints and etchings from the 20th century, inspired by the French poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Lautreamont. [Image: Maurice Denis,...More »
"A Simple Beauty: French Folk Prints" Exhibition
[7] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2011-06-15 - 2011-09-25
On display are some 40 handmade folk prints by anonymous artisans. [Image: "Buffoonery" multicolor lithograph, late 19th c.]More »
Kiyoshi Hasegawa Exhibition
[1] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2011-06-15 - 2011-09-25
Kiyoshi Hasegawa (1891-1980) moved to France in 1918 and subsequently lived and worked as a printmaker in Paris. This exhibition showcases some 60 pieces from private collections that demonstrate his penchant...More »
"Tetsuro Komai 1920-76" Exhibition
[5] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2011-04-09 - 2011-06-12
Tetsuro Komai (1920-76) was a gifted copper etching printmaker who depicted the visible world in order to express inner emotional and spiritual states invisible to the human eye. This exhibition showcases...More »
"The World of Western Copper Engravings" Exhibition
[5] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2011-04-06 - 2011-06-12
On display are prints by old masters like Durer, Brueghel, Rembrandt and Goya, 20th century artists like Picasso and other printmakers. [Image: Rembrandt van Rijn, "Jan Uytenbogaert, Arminian Preacher"...More »
"The Beauty of Lithographs: 19th Century France" Exhibition
[3] [0]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2011-03-05 - 2011-04-03
Invented in the late 18th century, lithographs offered artists the freedom to make prints using the lines that had been etched directly onto the surface of the block. The tactile feel of lines that have...More »
"Present for You - New Acquisitions from 2010" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2011-01-05 - 2011-02-13
On display are around 80 works chosen from among more than 700 pieces that were acquired by the museum from late 2009-2010. Featured works include those from the Edo and Meiji periods, as well as contemporary...More »
"From Buddhism Prints to Pop Art" Exhibition
[3] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2011-01-05 - 2011-04-03
Accessible showcase of around 40 works that introduces viewers to the history, evolution and techniques of printmaking. [Image: Anonymous, "St. Hieronymus removing a splinter from the lion" c. 1450,...More »
"Buddha Saviors" Exhibition
[2] [0]- Media: Prints - Sculpture
- 2010-10-09 - 2010-11-23
On display are prints depicting Kannon and bodhisattva figures, Buddha sculptures and other important cultural properties from the Heian through Edo periods. See website for more details on related lectures...More »
Andre Dunoyer De Segonzac "Winds from the Mediterranean Sea"
[4] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2010-09-29 - 2010-12-23
40 prints by French painter and printmaker Andre Dunoyer De Segonzac (1884-1974) that depict pastoral landscapes found in the works of Virgil. [Image: Andre Dunoyer De Segonzac, "Ceres seated" (1947)...More »
"The Human Figure in European Prints" Exhibition
[1] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2010-08-14 - 2010-09-26
This exhibition showcases around 130 European prints that depict human figures, divided into 4 sections. Talks and lectures are also planned. See website for details. [Image: Louis-Marin Bonnet, "Flower...More »
Sei Nakazato "Modernism: New York-Machida"
[3] [2]- Media: Prints
- 2010-06-19 - 2010-08-08
"Simple Beauty: French Folk Prints" Exhibition
[9] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2010-06-16 - 2010-09-26
On display are 40 folk prints made by anonymous French artisans that feature simple lines and bold colors.More »
"The World of Illustrated Books - Beautiful, Cute, Scary" Exhibition
[9] [3]- Media: Illustration - Prints
- 2010-04-10 - 2010-06-06
This exhibition, which features illustrated collections of prints, most of which are from 19th and 20th century Europe, introduces viewers to works dating from the early days of printed books. [Image:...More »
Hitoshi Karasawa Exhibition
[4] [5]- Media: Prints
- 2010-04-07 - 2010-06-13
Hitoshi Karasawa is a printmaker who produces stunningly detailed prints using woodblock techniques. On display are pieces from his Shokuzairyo and Shokubutsu no Suimin series.More »
"Ukiyoe -Bijinga of the 19th Century-" Exhibition
[4] [1]- Media: Painting
- 2010-03-13 - 2010-04-04
"Bijinga" (portraits of beautiful women) are one of the main genres of ukiyo-e woodblock prints from the 19th century. They took as their subject popular women from the Edo period as well as historical...More »
23rd Machida City Public Elementary Schools & Junior High Schools Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Crafts
- 2010-01-09 - 2010-02-14
-Junior High School Exhibition January 9th (Sat) - January 17th (Sun) -Elementary School Painting & Crafts Exhibition January 22nd (Fri) - January 31st (Sun) -Elementary School Calligraphy...More »
"The Labyrinthine World of Desmazieres from the Museum Collection Exhibition"
[8] [2]- Media: Prints
- 2010-01-05 - 2010-04-04
On view are a total of 30 copperplate engravings by French printmaker Erik Desmazieres (1948-) who is known for his depiction of labyrinthine landscape and enigmatic architecture.More »
34th National Exhibition of Students' Prints
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2009-12-05 - 2009-12-20
This is the 34th installment of this annual exhibition, which the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts has hosted since its opening. This is an important exhibition for scrutinizing the past year's accomplishments...More »
Tadashige Ono "Self Portrait of the Showa Period"
[3] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2009-10-03 - 2009-11-23
The work of Tadashige Ono (1909-90) is saturated with human drama and poetic atmosphere. However, his mode of expression cannot be described as something "sentimental". This is because what he attempted...More »
"Masterpiece Prints of the West from the Museum Collection Exhibition"
[4] [1]- Media: Prints
- 2009-09-26 - 2009-12-23
This permanent collection exhibition introduces various printing techniques ranging from woodblock prints and copperplate engravings to lithographs and screen prints through a display of European and American...More »
"Welcome to a Room of Wonder!" Exhibition
[8] [3]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2009-08-08 - 2009-09-23
On view at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts this summer is a wide array of unconventional print works depicting the wonder of nature: anatomical charts and pictorial diagrams of animals, as well...More »
Tadayoshi Nakabayashi Exhibition
[2] [1]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2009-06-27 - 2009-08-02
"Everything rots away in the end." Based on this idea, Tadayoshi Nakabayashi continues his practice of copperplate engraving through a corrosion process. Born in Tokyo in 1937, Nakabayashi entered the...More »
"'War and Printmakers - Otto Dix and Fumio Kitaoka' from the Museum Collection Exhibition"
[2] [1]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2009-06-24 - 2009-09-23
This exhibition features prints by German painter Otto Dix (1891-1969), who depicted his harsh experience as a soldier in World War I, and Fumio Kitaoka (1918-2007) who dealt with the repatriation from...More »
"Rouault's Prayer: Paintings and Prints" Exhibition
[1] [1]- Media: Painting - Prints - Art Talk
- 2009-04-11 - 2009-06-14
Georges Rouault (1871-1958) is considered to be the most prominent religious painter of the 20th century. Being a devout Roman Catholic himself, Rouault cast a shrewd glance at human sinfulness while showing...More »
"'Hodaka Yoshida -Lyricism of Contemporary Woodblock Prints' from the Museum Collection Exhibition"
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2009-04-08 - 2009-06-21
Showcasing around 40 woodblock prints by Hodaka Yoshida (1926-95), who combined his modern vision and traditional techniques.More »
"From Traditional Wood Engraving to Present" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2009-03-14 - 2009-04-05
There are four types of printmaking: woodblock print, copperplate engraving, lithograph and screen print. Woodblock print is the most familiar medium among all, for its gentle affectivity, unique to wood...More »
22nd Machida City Public Elementary Schools & Junior High Schools Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Crafts - Art Talk
- 2009-01-09 - 2009-02-15
-Junior High School Exhibition January 9th (Fri) - January 18th (Sun) -Elementary School Painting & Crafts Exhibition January 23rd (Fri) - February 1st (Sun) -Elementary School Calligraphy...More »
"'Gifts of Nature: Bird Kingdom -Audubon- American Bird Life' from the Museum Collection Exhibition"
[1] [0]- Media: Other
- 2009-01-06 - 2009-04-05
J.J.Audubon (1785-1851) was an artist who explored North America in pioneer days and depicted native birds. He published "American Birds" (a total of 435 pages), consisting of copperplate prints and hand-painted...More »
"New Collection Exhibition -Present for You"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2009-01-06 - 2009-02-15
Showcasing main works from the museum's new collection. Location: Exhibition Room 2More »
33rd National Exhibition of Students' Prints
[2] [3]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2008-12-06 - 2008-12-21
This is the 33rd installment of this annual exhibition, which the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts has hosted since its opening. This is an important exhibition for scrutinizing the past year's accomplishments...More »
Piranesi Print Exhibition
[4] [1]- Media: Prints - Other
- 2008-10-04 - 2008-11-24
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) was born near Venice, Italy, and flourished as a printmaker in Rome. Also working actively as architect and archaeologist, Piranesi brought colossal ancient monuments...More »
"Let's Go Traveling Through Prints!" Exhibition
[1] [1]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2008-08-09 - 2008-09-28
Joy of traveling can be achieved through visiting places of historic interest and scenic beauty. In the world of printmaking, viewers can go not only abroad but also to ancient cities and even heaven...More »
"Chinese Landscape， Flowers and Birds -Masterpiece from Ming and Qing Dynasties" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2008-06-28 - 2008-08-03
China has long been the East Asian center of painting and has cultivated traditions of its own. Groups of both quantitatively and qualitatively exquisite works, often depicting enchanted landscapes, lovely...More »
Takemasa Nakamura + Ayako Nakamura Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints - Ceramics
- 2008-05-03 - 2008-05-06
Etching-like woodblock prints and contemporary ceramic objets are on display.More »
"Southern Islands for the Artists" Exhibition
[3] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2008-04-12 - 2008-06-22
During Meiji period, Japan started advancing to Micronesian Islands. In parallel with the beginning of the World War I, Japan took over the islands and started to govern them by 1921. From Taisho period...More »
"Ukiyoe Masterpieces - 150th Anniversary of the Era of Hiroshige" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2008-03-15 - 2008-04-06
This year is the 150th anniversary of the passing of the popular Ukiyoe artist from the late Edo era, Hiroshige Utagawa. Hiroshige was born into a samurai family, but started studying under Toyohiro Utagawa...More »
"The World of Umetaro Azechi from the Museum Collection Exhibition"
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2008-01-05 - 2008-04-06
"Woodblock Prints East vs. West - From Buddhist Prints to the Present Day" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2007-10-06 - 2007-11-25
"Colourful World! Print and Colour" Exhibition
[4] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2007-08-11 - 2007-09-30
This exhibition mainly features prints from Europe, including multicolored wood prints and copper plate prints, pieces that one would mistake for watercolors or pastel paintings, as well as lithographs,...More »
"Ryoji Kumata and Friends - Shiko Munakata & Yasunori Taninaka" Exhibition
[2] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2007-06-30 - 2007-08-05
Featuring the work of Ryoji Kumata, as well as that of Shinko Munakata and Yasunori Taninaka, whose prints featured in a magazine published by Kumata, this exhibition showcases three of pre-war Japan's...More »
"Messages from the War Dead" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2007-05-03 - 2007-05-06
Artist Yoshito Takeda believes that if Japan were ever to head into war again, the people who would be saddest about it would be the many Japanese who died during the Pacific War. The works on display...More »
"Longing for China - Looking into the Secrets of Japanese Art" Exhibition
[1] [0]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2007-04-14 - 2007-06-24
This exhibition is being held in celebration of the museum's 20th anniversary. Since the ancient past, Japan has learned a lot from Chinese culture, and needless to say this is true of Japanese art as...More »
"Reiji Kikuchi and his Era" Exhibition
[3] [3]- Media: Prints
- 2007-04-04 - 2007-06-24
Reiji Kikuchi only lived a brief 22 years (from 1946 to 1968). This exhibition presents an overview of his short but active period of artistic productivity.More »
Marc Chagall "Dead Souls"
[4] [0]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2007-03-10 - 2007-04-01
In 1922 the twentieth-century painter and printmaker Marc Chagall (1887-1985) started a life moving among cities such as Berlin and Paris in order to escape from post-revolutionary Russia. It was during...More »
20th Machida Elementary and Junior High Schools Art Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Calligraphy
- 2007-01-12 - 2007-02-28
•Junior High School Art Exhibition January 12 (Fri) - 21 (Sun) •Elementary Drawing Workshop Exhibition January 26 (Fri) - February 4 (Sun) •Elementary School Calligraphy Exhibition February 9...More »
Exhibition of Newly Acquired Works
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2007-01-05 - 2007-02-18
The Color of Prints Exhibition 2006
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2006-12-02 - 2006-12-17
Art based universities have always played a significant role in supporting the art industry. The University Print Association, initially established for the research and education of printmaking, has been...More »
Yoshikuni Iida "The Light of Poetry - The Shape of Colour"
[4] [2]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2006-09-30 - 2006-11-26
• Gallery Talk "Museum director Tetsuro Murata talks about Yoshikuni Iida's world" Saturday 7th October, from 14:00 (lasting approx. 40min); entry with exhibition ticket; gathering point at entrance...More »
"Famous Lithographs" Exhibition
[2] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2006-09-27 - 2006-12-24
The Golden Era of Print - "The Woodblock Prints of Tsukuhae"
[4] [3]- Media: Prints
- 2006-08-05 - 2006-09-24
This exhibition introduces visitors to the artist's work from between the early 1910s to 1923, when the Great Kanto Earthquake struck. While these prints were made almost a century ago, the exhibition's...More »
Meiji Woodblock Prints "Kunichika & Yoshitoshi - The Masters of of the Utagawa School"
[3] [1]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2006-06-24 - 2006-07-30
This exhibition consists of approximately 90 works by the woodblock printers Yoshitoshi and Kunichika. In addition are 20 works by Kunichika's students Toshikata Mizuno and Toshihide Migita and Kunichika's...More »
Koshiro Onchi Wood Block Prints
[6] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2006-01-05 - 2006-04-09
Forty works by modernist Koshiro Onchi (1891-1955), an artist who led the contemporary Japanese art world from the early Taisho period to mid Showa period. In 1924, Onchi started the magazine "Tsukuhae"...More »
"Ukiyo-e Modern"
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2005-10-08 - 2005-11-23
This exhibition is a showcase of the extravagance of 'modern ukiyoe', a fusion of ukiyoe and woodcut printing. From the Taisho Period to the early Showa Period, many ukiyoe works of scenery, women, and...More »
Horst Janssen - A Man Obsessed By Painting
[2] [0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2005-09-28 - 2005-12-25
Horst Janssen (1929-1995) is one of the German representative artists of the 20th century. His outstanding talent was revealed while still in art school and he was described as "the first draughtsman since...More »
Prints from the Everyday Life
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2005-06-25 - 2005-09-25
Mass media send out countless images through newspapers, television and the Internet everyday. Those images give us more knowledge and make our everyday life more enjoyable. Does this mean that life was...More »
The Multiples Show - From Duchamp to Lichtenstein
[3] [1]- Media: Sculpture - Other
- 2005-04-09 - 2005-06-12
This exhibition presents the "Multiples" of 20th century art. In the art world, "Multiples" refer to those works with many editions. In a broad sense, prints are also multiples. However, this exhibition...More »
Prints of Toyokuni Utagawa the Third
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2005-04-01 - 2005-06-22
A display of 60 Ukiyo-e prints by Toyokuni Utagawa the Third (1786-1864), a famous artist of the end of the Edo period. 30 of them from 04/01 to 05/08, and other 30 prints from 05/10 to 06/22.More »
Currents in Modern Prints: To the Future...
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2005-02-26 - 2005-03-27
Freed from government repression after the Second World War, Japanese Print-makers sought after a new mode of expression in wood prints. However, the 1950s saw a new breed of young artists who found their...More »
Various Prints / "The New 100 Great Sights of Japan"
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2005-01-07 - 2005-03-27
"The New 100 Great Sights of Japan" was a series of print collections inaugurated in 1938. It was known for the participation of renowned authors such as Umetaro Azechi. 39 pieces will be displayed in...More »
Colors of Printing 2004: The 29th National Exhibition of Students' Prints
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2004-12-03 - 2004-12-19
On show are over 300 prints by Japanese college students, in addition to 24 works from foreign universities. This exhibition celebrates the spread of printing since the establishment of the specific major...More »
Print works from Edo period
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics
- 2004-10-02 - 2004-11-23
The exhibition will display many of the print works, which are influenced heavily by the Chinese art, flourished in Edo period.More »
The 18th Exhibition of Children's Artworks
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2004-01-14 - 2005-02-20
This exhibition presents the artworks and caligraphy by children in public elementary and junior high schools in Machida city. More »
2D
- Graphics (23)
- Illustration (39)
- Painting (190)
- Drawing (43)
- Calligraphy (2)
- Photography (95)
- Prints (34)
- Other (9)
3D
- Architecture (4)
- Sculpture (56)
- Installation (39)
- Furniture (8)
- Fashion (12)
- Product (14)
- Crafts (27)
- Ceramics (22)
- Other (8)
Screen
- Film (18)
- Video installation (14)
- Digital (0)
- Other (1)
Misc.
- Media Arts (3)
- Art Party (44)
- Art Talk (27)
- Performance Art (7)
- Art Competition (1)
Area:
Ginza, Shimbashi(59) Ueno, Yanaka(25) Kiyosumi, Odaiba(21) Kyobashi, Nihonbashi & Kudanshita(66) Omotesando, Aoyama(38) Shinjuku(49) Shibuya, Setagaya(39) Roppongi, Akasaka(46) Nakameguro, Ebisu(30) Musashino, Tama(30) Yokohama, Kanagawa(22) Kanto: others(47)
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