Arcadia on the Shore— Puvis de Chavannes’s Mythic World

Bunkamura Museum of Art

Finished

Artists

Chavannes

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a well-known 19th-century French mural painter, worked on numerous monumental murals in major buildings in France, while also displaying his talents in easel painting. His soft-colored works, suggestive of Italian frescoes, recall Arcadia, which was admired as a Utopia from ancient times. His many masterpieces evoke a refined, tranquil atmosphere. Depicting a profound, allegoric world, his oeuvre is known as a pioneering body of Symbolist works. Chavannes’s novel approach to art, which he developed while preserving a classical style, had great influence on the artists of later generations, and contributed significantly to the development of modern Western-style painting in Japan. This exhibition can be seen as an invaluable first proper introduction of this great artist to Japan.

[Image: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes “The Sacred Grave, Beloved of the Arts and Muse” (1884-89) Oil on canvas 93×231 cm]

Schedule

Jan 2 (Thu) 2014-Mar 9 (Sun) 2014

Opening Hours Information

Hours	10:00-18:00 Closes at 21:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. *Admission is until 30 minutes before closing time.
Notice	Open every day of the exhibition period.

Fee

Adults ¥1400 (¥1200 in advance), University & High School Students ¥1000 (¥800), Junior High & Elementary School Students ¥700 (¥500)

Website

http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/museum/index.html