Looking East - Western Artists and the Allure of Japan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -

Setagaya Art Museum

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“Looking East” is the first major exhibition from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston(MFA), to survey the rich connections among Japan, Europe, and North America around 1900. The extraordinary influence of Japanese culture on the Western imagination, known as japonisme, profoundly affected leading artistic movements of the era, including Impressionism, Aestheticism, and Art Nouveau. The exhibition explores this extraordinary moment of cross-cultural exchange through 150 works including paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and decorative arts across five sections: Taste for Japan; Woman; City Life; Nature; and Landscape. Here visual correlations are drawn between masterpieces of European and American artists and Ukiyo-e paintings and prints from the Museum’s Japanese collection, demonstrating the many ways that Western artists encountered Japanese art, either directly or through the example of contemporaries who introduced them to Japanese themes and styles, including asymmetry, decorative patterning, and calligraphic gesture.

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Venue: Setagaya Art Museum Lecture Hall
Admission: Free

Schedule	Jun 28 (Sat) 2014-Sep 15 (Mon) 2014  Opening Hours Information Hours 10:00-18:00 Closed Monday Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. Closed during the New Year holidays.
Fee	Adults ¥1500, University Students and High School Students ¥900, Seniors over 65 ¥1200, Junior High School Students and Elementary School Students ¥500, Redistered Disabled ¥500.
Website	http://www.boston-japonisme.jp/english/
Venue	Setagaya Art Museum http://www.setagayaartmuseum.or.jp/index_e.html
Location	1-2 Kinuta-koen, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-0075 Open with a Map App
Access	17 minute walk from the South exit of Yoga Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi line; From the North exit of Yoga Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi line, take the Tokyu bus and get off at Bijutsukan.
Phone	03-3415-6011
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