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[Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir "Mademoiselle Francois" (1917)]

A History of Western-style Painting: From Modern Europe to Contemporary Japan

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

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Artists

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Yuichi Takahashi, Yoshimatsu Goseda, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Ryusei Kishida, Yuzo SaekiI et al.

This exhibition will give an overview of the history of Western-style Japanese painting against the backdrop of nineteenth-century British art by painters such as Turner and Constable, and French Impressionist works by Renoir, Monet, Sisley and Pissaro. It will look at the work of Meiji period (1868–1912) artists such as Yuichi Takahashi who laid the foundations of Western-style painting in Japan, as well as work produced by artists negotiating the gap between the nation and the individual throughout the upheaval of the early twentieth century. The practice of postwar artists such as Yoshishige Saito and Kazuo Shiraga will also be explored. More than 100 works by key Western-style painters in Japan will be showcased, bringing together modern European and contemporary Japanese works from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki and Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts.

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Gallery Talk by Curator
This curator of this exhibition will give a guided commentary of the works while moving through the exhibition space.
Event Dates: Apr. 22 (Sat) 15:30-, May 14 (Sun) 14:00-, Jun. 25 (Sun) 14:00- (Duration: approx. 60 mins.)
Venue: Exhibition Room
Admission: Free (exhibition admission ticket required, no booking required)
Participants are to meet at the exhibition entrance.
*Event in Japanese.

Schedule

Apr 22 (Sat) 2017-Jul 2 (Sun) 2017

Opening Hours Information

Hours	9:30-17:00
Closed	Monday Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. Closed during the New Year holidays and in between exhibitions.

Fee

Adults: ￥800, University & High School Students: ￥500, Junior High School Students & Under: Free

Website

http://www.art.pref.tochigi.lg.jp/en/exhibition/t170422/index.html