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Urawa Art Museum - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Urawa Art Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

"Themed Exhibition from the Museum Collection X: Photographs and Artist Books"
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- Media: Photography - Other
- 2007-11-17 - 2008-01-27
"Artist books" are difficult to define due to the various interpretations. One narrow definition is to think of them as books that artists created after the 1960s, not as collections of works, but as a (...)

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"Ryusei Kishida" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2007-11-17 - 2008-01-27
Ryusei Kishida is among modern Japan's representative Yo-ga (western style painting) painters and is known for a wide range of works including those with his beloved daughter Reiko as the model. In his (...)

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"Scenery, and People ... Makoto Takada and Takeo Watanabe" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-09-08 - 2007-10-08
The Urawa Museum's collection focuses on excellent works by artists associated with the surrounding region. The two artists introduced in this show are among the core figures of these regional artists. (...)

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"Artists of Issuikai and Koufukai - from the Museum Collection" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Crafts
- 2007-09-08 - 2007-10-08
This exhibition is being held simultaneously with "Scenery, and People... Makoto Takada and Takeo Watanabe". These two artists were major players in Issuikai and Koufukai respectively. Related works by (...)

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"Picture Books from Around the World: Bratislava World Picture Book Original Drawing Exhibition"
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- Media: Illustration - Film - Art Competition
- 2007-07-14 - 2007-09-02
The Bratislava World Picture Book Original Drawing Exhibition is one of the world's largest competitions of its kind and has been held in Bratislava, capital of the Slovakia Republic biannually. The fact (...)

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"100 Years Since Kokuta Suda's Birth -Anthem of Life-" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-04-28 - 2007-06-24
The artist is known for his unique bobbed hairstyle and denim overalls, but his works also had a fierce individuality. He was born in 1906 in Fukiagemachi in Saitama Prefecture and came to Urawa City (...)

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"Themes from the Collection IX Books: 'Wa'-Adorned Books" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Crafts
- 2007-04-28 - 2007-06-24
Japanese books have taken on various forms such as scrolls, Orimoto, and pamphlets. Scrolls have often been used for stories or travelogues, and Orimoto for Kyo (Buddhist scriptures). Pamphlets were first (...)

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Prints in Paris - Tsuguharu Fujita and Alberto Giaccometti
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- Media: Prints
- 2006-09-09 - 2007-02-18
This exhibition showcases 70 works protraying Paris, the city that Fujita and Giaccometti loved so much. Their respective styles of painting differed, but they have both created a sense of feeling and (...)

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Jozef Wilkon Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2006-07-08 - 2006-10-09
Jozef Wilkon is a major East European children's book illustrator, graphic designer and sculptor. This exhibition introduces visitors to his works, which all take animals as their theme. •Related Event Summer (...)

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Baikoan Collection "Modern Pictures of Beautiful Women - Aestheticism and Melancholy"
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- Media: Painting
- 2006-04-29 - 2006-06-18
"Female Beauty" whether in the east or west, in the past or present, has been an eternal theme in art. The Edo Period in particular was a time when, along with ukiyo-e prints, paintings of beautiful women (...)

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Soen Yomoda "Bamboo Forest"
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- Media: Painting
- 2006-04-29 - 2006-06-18
Soen Yomoda (1902-1981), who stayed in Urawa from 1931 to around 1936, lost all of his paintings in his possession during the wartime firebombing. Follwing the war, he continued to paint for a while, but (...)

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The Joys of Illustrated Books
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- Media: Illustration - Prints - Other
- 2005-11-19 - 2006-02-19
During the late 19th, early 20th century, color printing technologies were evolving rapidly and created fascinating results for the times. Illustrated books saw the light of day in those years and people (...)

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Urawa Atelier Village / Yasushi Tanaka / Books We Want to Make or Play With
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- Media: Painting - Product
- 2005-07-16 - 2005-10-11
To celebrate the city merger of Saitama and Iwaki, 3 exhibitions will be held simultaneously. 1) After the Tokyo great earthquake, many artists relocated themselves to Urawa and the city was described (...)

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Tradition of European Painting
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- Media: Painting
- 2005-04-29 - 2005-06-26
While French Impressionism and related arts are the popular choice in Japan, the mainstream art within Europe has been paintings that "tell stories"; rooted deeply in religion, mythology, literature and (...)

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Fluxus: From Art to the Mundane
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- Media: Prints - Film
- 2004-11-20 - 2005-02-20
“Fluxus” was an art movement from the 60’s and 70’s led by George Maciunas. Taking place in the United States, Europe and Japan, it covered multiple artistic disciplines, like music, poetry, film, and (...)

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Eikyu/Books and Art
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- Media: Painting - Prints - Other
- 2004-11-06 - 2005-02-20
This exhibition consists of two parts: “The Work of Eikyu” and “Foreign Book Art”. Eikyu, who in 1951 set his atelier in Urawa, was one of the leaders of Japanese modern art. He worked with photography, (...)

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