Bridgestone Museum of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Bridgestone Museum of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Gyoji Nomiyama Exhibition
[13][2]- Media: Painting
- 2011-10-28 - 2011-12-25
Gyoji Nomiyama boasts one of the longest-running Western-style painting careers in Japan. His distinctive style, with its vivid colors and bold brushwork, is light and dynamic, but with something mysterious...More »
"From the Birth of Impressionism to 20th Century Art" Exhibition
[18][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2011-09-14 - 2011-10-18
It was in 1874 that Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Camille Pissarro, artists who were later labeled Impressionists, held their first group show in Paris. The Impressionist’s revolution,...More »
Shigeru Aoki "Myth, Sea and Love"
[32][8]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2011-07-17 - 2011-09-04
In 1904, at the age of 22, Shigeru Aoki presented to the art world his work “A Good Catch,” a painting that captured people’s hearts against the backdrop of Meiji era Romanticism. Aoki went on to create...More »
"Postwar Abstract Painting in France and Art Informel" Exhibition
[35][7]- Media: Painting
- 2011-04-29 - 2011-07-06
Art Informel is an avant-garde movement in painting that centered in Paris after World War II. In French, “informel” means “without set form”: “Art Informel” is the term devised by the critic Michel Tapié...More »
"Why is it a Masterpiece?" Exhibition
[45][6]- Media: Painting
- 2011-01-04 - 2011-04-16
The Bridgestone Museum of Art’s collection includes paintings that have long been loved and admired. In 1980, to the surprise and delight of many, the museum acquired Pablo Picasso’s Saltimbanque Seated...More »
"Image of the Seine - Impressionists and Japanese Painters" Exhibition
[10][3]- Media: Painting
- 2010-10-30 - 2010-12-23
The Seine, flowing from east to west through Paris, has been a rich source of subjects for a host of painters, who have been inspired by both the beautiful views along its banks in the city and the more...More »
Henry Moore "Forms of Life"
[15][3]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2010-07-31 - 2010-10-17
This exhibition introduces, in addition to six sculptures, forty works on paper, including pastel, watercolors, and lithographs. Preliminary drawings for his sculptures become rare from around 1950 as...More »
"Do you like Impressionism?" Exhibition
[35][2]- Media: Painting
- 2010-04-20 - 2010-07-25
The group of painters now known as the Impressionists caused an uproar in the Parisian art world of the 1870s. Their vividly colored and light-soaked canvases repulsed critics at the time, but today artists...More »
"Modern Japanese Art and Europe" Exhibition
[23][3]- Media: Painting
- 2010-01-26 - 2010-04-11
Western-style painting in Japan from the Meiji period onwards developed by learning from Western art. However, shortly before many Japanese artists went abroad to study Western techniques and styles, a...More »
"Portraits by Sotaro Yasui" Exhibition
[9][1]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-10-31 - 2010-01-17
The realist painter Sotaro Yasui (1888-1955) must be included in any comprehensive examination of oil painting in the twentieth century. After studying Western-style painting with Chu Asai in Kyoto, Yasui...More »
"Colors of the Sea, Shapes of the Sea" Exhibition
[30][3]- Media: Painting
- 2009-07-11 - 2009-10-25
This exhibition of paintings on the subject of the sea will introduce a cornucopia of styles and viewpoints with which artists address the sea. The sea itself has no determinate color or shape. Nonetheless,...More »
"Matisse and His Circles—France Wild, France Refined" Exhibition
[13][4]- Media: Painting
- 2009-04-21 - 2009-07-05
"When I look at a painting, I forget about what it depicts. What matters are lines, shapes, and colors." — Henri Matisse Henri Matisse (1869-1954), a central figure in Fauvism, is, indeed, one of the...More »
"Selections from the Collection: From Impressionism to Abstract Paintings" Exhibition
[13][3]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2009-01-24 - 2009-04-12
This exhibition presents some 180 works selected from the collection of the Bridgestone Museum of Art. They include examples ranging from the Impressionists to contemporary artists, with paintings and...More »
"Paris Passages: The Changing Faces of Paris in 19th Century Prints and Paintings" Exhibition
[11][4]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2008-10-25 - 2009-01-18
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, Paris underwent a series of expansions and alterations through the "grands travaux de Paris," a comprehensive redevelopment program directed by Hauts-de-Seine...More »
"From Impressionism to Abstract Paintings" Exhibition
[17][4]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2008-07-19 - 2008-10-19
The search for an individual style has unfolded and evolved with great vigor throughout the history of modern and contemporary art. Consider the Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-August...More »
Shikanosuke Oka Exhibition
[10][3]- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-26 - 2008-07-06
Oka Shikanosuke (1898-1978) was a western-style painter who died 30 years ago. Oka’s paintings of pansies arranged in vases or baskets, old castles in deep forests, lighthouses set against a clear sky...More »
"New Horizons: the collection of the Ishibashi Foundation" Exhibition
[17][3]- Media: Painting
- 2008-02-09 - 2008-04-13
Ishibashi Kan'ichiro, who later succeeded the founder of the Ishibashi Foundation, Seijiro Ishibashi, as the foundation’s president in 1981, had acquired an early appreciation and love of 20th century...More »
"From the Bridgestone Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[5][3]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2007-12-01 - 2008-01-27
This exhibition presents approximately 180 paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Bridgestone Museum of Art centering around European artists of the Modern period such as Monet, Renoir,...More »
Cézanne "Four Attractions: Figure, Still Life, Landscape, Bather"
[14][3]- Media: Painting
- 2007-10-06 - 2007-11-25
Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Cézanne who famously said that nature most often presents itself in spheres, cylinders, and cones, had a huge influence...More »
Shigeru Aoki "Sea and Myth and the Masterpieces from the Collection"
[7][1]- Media: Painting
- 2007-07-18 - 2007-09-30
"A Good Catch" comes to Tokyo. This painting was put on view to the public when the Bridgestone Museum was opened and for more than 50 years, it has been appreciated by many people. Nowadays, it is usually...More »
"Masterpieces from the Collection: From Impressionism to Twentieth Century Art" Exhibition
[36][9]- Media: Painting
- 2007-04-10 - 2007-07-16
This exhibition features an outstanding group of masterpieces from the Bridgestone Museum of Art, introducing the collection's appealing and distinctive character in an easy-to-understand way. On display...More »
"Masterpieces from the Collection - From Impressionism to Twentieth-Century Art" Exhibition
[17][3]- Media: Painting
- 2007-01-02 - 2007-04-08
This exhibition features an outstanding group of masterpieces from the Bridgestone Museum of Art. It introduces the collection's appealing and distinctive character in an easy-to-understand way. The great...More »
"Prism: Contemporary Australian Art" Exhibition
[36][9]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2006-10-07 - 2006-12-03
The Bridgestone Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition of Australian contemporary art as an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Ishibashi Foundation. Featuring 73 works, including two made...More »
Hanjiro Sakamoto "Ishibashi Museum 50 Year Anniversary Exhibition"
[4][1]- Media: Painting
- 2006-06-16 - 2006-07-08
The career of the Western-style painter Sakamoto Hanjiro spanned a period of more than 60 years from the late Meiji Era to well after World War II. Made up of 150 paintings and 30 documents, this exhibition—the...More »
"From Sesshu to Pollock" A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Ishibashi Foundation
[16][8]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2006-04-08 - 2006-06-04
This exhibition will bring together under one roof the highlights of the Ishibashi Foundation’s collection, which is normally divided between the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo, and the Ishibashi Museum...More »
Permanent Collection - Impressionists and Twentieth-Century Artists
[14][2]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2005-10-15 - 2006-03-26
The Bridgestone Museum of Art devotes itself to the collection and exhibition of European art, in particular, works of Impressionists and 20th century art as well as Japanese western-style paintings from...More »
Aoki Shigeru "A Good Catch"
[2][1]- Media: Painting
- 2005-09-17 - 2005-10-10
Though he died at the early age of twenty-eight, the painter Aoki Shigeru (1882-1911) produced a large and splendid body of work. As the representative of the Japanese Romantic movement, Aoki left his...More »
Two by Two - Pairs, Couples and Lovers
[1][2]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2005-07-16 - 2005-09-11
People in pairs have been a popular motif throughout the history of art. Two by Two explores how this motif has been handled in different periods, from Ancient Greece to contemporary Europe and Japan. The...More »
The Impressionists and 20th-Century Masters: From Monet and Renoir to Picasso
[10][4]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2005-01-25 - 2005-07-10
This exhibition introduces the unique qualities and appeal of the Impressionist painters and masters of twentieth-century art, mainly through works in the Bridgestone Museum of Art. The works by Impressionists...More »
Zao Wou-Ki
[0][1]- Media: Painting
- 2004-10-16 - 2005-01-16
The reputation of the Paris-based abstract artist Zao Wou-Ki has continued to grow in recent years. Born in Beijing to a distinguished family dating back to the Sung dynasty, Zao moved to France in 1948...More »
Masterly Visions - From Manet, Monet and Renoir to Twentieth-Century Art
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2004-06-11 - 2004-10-03
This exhibition features an outstanding group of masterpieces from the Bridgestone Museum of Art, some of which have not been shown very often in recent years. It introduces the collection's appeal and...More »
