The Poetry of Painters, The Paintings of Poets - Painting as Poetry, Poetry as Painting

Hiratsuka Museum of Art

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Shikou Munakakta, Yayoi Kusama, Shiki Masaoka, Kenji Miyazawa, Michio Mado et al.

There is a saying which originates from ancient Greece which states “Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks”. Modern western style painting in Japanese art was much influenced by the modern movement in art to become independent from the world of literature. With the rise of Impressionism a whole wave of new expressions came to emerge in the art world thereafter. Yet many works maintained a poetic sensibility which one might say is rooted in the literary field. In recent years there have been a new flow of artists who have been actively incorporating poetry into their works and this exhibition examines this tide from modern times, both from poetry to painting and painting to poetry.

Artists: Misei Kosugi, Shigeru Aoki, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Shizuo Fujimori, Koushiro Onchi, Kyokichi Tanaka, Kazumasa Nakagawa, Toshiyuki Hasegawa, Harue Koga, Sumio Kawakami, Kaita Murayama, Yasunori Taninaka, Koutaro Migishi, Shikou Munakata, Rintaro Hasegawa, Tatsuoki Nanbata,Kaoru Yamaguchi, Yasuo Kazuki, Keiko Minami, Shunsuke Matsumoto,Yae Asano, Yoshikuni Iida, Yayoi Kusama, Seizo Tajima, Rintaro Akutagawa, Han Fujiyama, Fumio Nambata, Reiko Ikemura, Naoko Kanan, O Jun, Takanobu Kobayashi, Tomoko Konoike, Kyoko Murase, Yasuko Iba

Poets: Shiki Masaoka, Kotaro Takamura, Hakushi Kitahara, Kenji Miyazawa, Shinpe Kusano, Chuya Nakahara, Michio Mado

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