Mitaka City Gallery of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Mitaka City Gallery of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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「End of Shogunate Ukiyo-e Prints from the Nakau Collection: Festivity of Greater Edo - The World of Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kunisada and Kuniyoshi" Exhibition
Developed in the late 17th century, ukiyo-e printmaking is a popular art that was well loved by Edo citizens. Early Ukiyo-e were set in kabuki stages and depicted actors and beautiful female roles, and (...)
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"Kaiju Monsters and Art - Toru Narita's Art and Influence on Kaiju Art" Exhibition
Monsters and beasts are not real. Toru Narita strived to design and express the forms of these "kaiju" in a uniquely Japanese way that was different from the western image of a "monster." He entered Musashino (...)
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Maurice Utrillo "The Poetry of Montmartre"
Maurice Utrillo was born in Paris in 1883. He was the illegitimate child of Susanne Valadon who later became Renoir's model, Lautrec's lover and van Gogh's friend and finally got started on her path as (...)
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Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava Exhibition
The Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), which takes place every year in the Slovakian capital, is the world's biggest exhibition of picture book illustrations, bringing together veteran illustrators (...)
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Horin Fukuoji Exhibition
Horin Fukuoji (1920-) is reknowned for his paintings depicting the Himalayas. The world's tallest mountain range captured his imagination as a young boy, and continued to be his inspiration for over 20 (...)
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Kwak Duck-Jun "The Sun and Kwak"
Kwak Duck-Jun, born in 1937 in Kyoto, creates prints and photographs on the theme of 'the relation between me and the world' in a humorous and cynical fashion. The series displayed in this exhibition consists (...)
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Yajuro Takashima Exhibition
For the 30th anniversary of his death, 100 works and reference materials will be exhibited to chronicle Yajuro Takashima's career from adolescence to his very last work, 'Lilies'. Yajuro Takashima was (...)
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The Eyes of a Poet - Manabu Ohoka Collection
Makoto Ohoka (1931-) is best known for his series of poems "Occasional Songs" published in Asahi Shinbun from 1979. He received many awards for them. Since the late 1950s, he has worked as an art critic (...)
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From the Mitaka City Collection
An exhibition of 38 works by abstract painters Hamae Sakurai (1908- ), Tazuko Tanaka (1913- ), and Hiroshi Sakai (1931- ), who all have connections with Mitaka City.
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Yasuji Tanioka: Japanese Morning and Round Horizon
Cartoon writer Yasuji Tanioka created popular short stories in the 70s. The phrases used by his characters became widely known and trendy, and the extremely simplified style and unrestrained expression (...)
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Courbet Museum Exhibition
Gustave Courbet was a Realism artist who had an important impact on the middle of the 19th century. Some of his oil paintings, paper works and other collected works from the Courbet Museum in France will (...)
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Modern Japanese Sculptors from 1960
This exhibition presents four Japanese sculptors who began their careers between 1945 and 1960. The sculptors include Tomonori Toyofuku (1925-), Shu Eguchi (1932-), Eisaku Tanaka (1933), and Hisayuki Mogami (...)
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Shigeo Gocho - Part 1
This exhibition includes Gosho`s works from the three volumes of photograph collection for the first time and also his student project from research institute years.




