TAB Event - "Taro Okamoto's Paintings" Exhibition

"Taro Okamoto's Paintings" Exhibition

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At Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
Media: Painting

Artist Taro Okamoto was active in a wide variety of fields beyond art. However, all his activities are rooted in painting. After dropping out of Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkou (presently Tokyo University of the Arts) in half a year, he went to Paris to become a painter, where he was inspired by a painting by Paul Cézanne at the Musée du Louvre in 1930. In 1932, he encountered Picasso's "Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit" at Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and decided to pursue abstract painting. This destined encounter was the birth of painter Taro Okamoto. After returning to postwar Japan, he followed his original theory, "Antithesis Principle," establishing a distinctive style without being influenced by trends.

This exhibition traces the history of Taro Okamoto's paintings, introducing various creations ranging from oil paintings to murals and public art.

[Image: "Melancholy" (1947) Oil on canvas. Collection of Sogetsu-kai]

Schedule

From 2009-04-18 To 2009-09-23
Closed on every Monday (except July 20th & September 21st), April 30th (Thu), May 7th (Thu), July 7th (Tue), July 8th (Wed), & July 21st (Tue).