Pola Museum of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Pola Museum of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Foujita: Mon Paris, Mon Atelier" Exhibition
[23][3]- Media: Illustration - Painting
- 2011-03-19 - 2012-01-15
Foujita (Léonard Foujita / Foujita Tsuguharu, 1886-1968) attracted notice as an artist with the distinctive smooth "milky-white skin" that he was able to achieve in his graceful paintings of nudes. The...More »
Henri Rousseau "Under Paris Skies"
[14][2]- Media: Painting
- 2010-09-11 - 2011-03-13
Rousseau is a unique artist whose works, with their unusual charm, have endless appeal. Commemorating 100 years since Rousseau's death, this exhibition consists of the artists' works in the permanent collection...More »
"Mineral Colors, Myriad Images: Nihonga from the Collection" Exhibition
[4][0]- Media: Painting
- 2010-03-13 - 2010-09-05
"Mineral Colors, Myriad Images: Nihonga from the Collection" is the Pola Museum's first exhibition of Nihonga paintings. The Museum has until now concentrated on the presentation of European, mainly French,...More »
"Garden and Interior: Visions of Intimate World by Bonnard and Matisse" Exhibition
[12][0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-09-12 - 2010-03-07
Gardens and interiors are spaces closely related to our everyday lives. Both enjoy a long tradition as subjects for painting. With the rise of bourgeois society in nineteenth-century France, the painters...More »
"A Century of Portraiture: Renoir, Modigliani, Picasso and Other Artists from the Collection" Exhibition
[5][1]- Media: Painting
- 2009-03-14 - 2009-09-06
Portraiture has been a key subject of painting and sculpture since ancient times. Figures of authority have long sought to project their power by imprinting their images on monuments and coins. Carved...More »
"Yuzo Saeki and France" Exhibition
[7][0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-09-13 - 2009-03-08
Arriving in Paris in January 1924, Yuzo Saeki visited Auvers sur Oise early that summer, the town in which Vincent van Gogh lived during his last days. Here, Saeki encountered the Fauvist painter Maurice...More »
"Chagall - My Stories" Exhibition
[4][3]- Media: Painting
- 2008-03-29 - 2008-09-07
Throughout his career, Marc Chagall not only depicted fantastical imagery in rich colors, but also gave expression to his childhood memories with a sense of rustic poetry. Chagall never ceased to project...More »
"Monet and the French Landscape - Traveling with Artists in France" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting
- 2007-09-22 - 2008-03-23
This exhibition is held in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Pola Museum of Art. In the latter half of the 19th century, the Impressionists turned to landscapes in their quest to express...More »
"Flowers in Painting - From Monet and Renoir to Ryuzaburo Umehara and Taikan Yokoyama" Exhibition
[6][0]- Media: Painting
- 2007-03-24 - 2007-09-17
Flowers have made people happy throughout the ages, whether found in nature, or in people's daily lives. This exhibition presents 90 works or Western and Japanese painting from the museum collection that...More »
"Emile Gallé and Glass Works of the Art Nouveau" Exhibition
[5][0]- Media: Painting
- 2007-03-24 - 2007-09-17
Born in Nancy, in the Lorraine area of France, Emile Gallé (1846-1904) is known as one of the major artists of Art Nouveau. This exhibition presents famous works from both the collection of the Pola Museum...More »
"Ballet by Degas, Dali and Chagall - Physical Expression in Art" Exhibition
[18][4]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Crafts - Art Talk
- 2006-09-23 - 2007-03-18
Ballet is the art of human physical expression. From its classical to contemporary styles, ballet continues to enthrall people all over the world. Over time, many artists have been impressed by ballet...More »
Picasso: Five Themes
[26][7]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2006-03-18 - 2006-09-17
Picasso painted people, objects, and our ever changing appearances; he cultivated all the possibilities of painting. With his work "Woman and Child on the Seashore" from the blue period and "Nude" from...More »
The Age of Kuroda Seiki and Kishida Ryusei
[3][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2005-09-03 - 2006-03-12
Returning from France in 1893, Seiki Kuroda altered the direction of Western painting in Japan. He formed a group called "Hakuba-kai" with other artists such as Takeji Fujishima and Saburosuke Okada. Their...More »
Great Masters of Impressionism
[3][1]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2005-01-16 - 2005-08-28
The First Impressionist Exhibition was held in 1874 at the studio of photographer Nadar at 35 boulevard des Capucines, Paris. It was a completely new type of group exhibition by cutting-edge artists. More...More »
The World of Children
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2004-06-05 - 2005-01-10
Many images of children can be found in European paintings from antiquity onward. Religious works depict the Mother and Child, or children as angels, a symbol of salvation. Members of the royal and aristocratic...More »
