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Special Exhibition: Featuring Nude by Kagaku Murakami
Yamatane Museum of Art
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Kagaku Murakami, Seiho Takeuchi, Bakusen Tsuchida, Shoen Uemura, Tadaoto Kainosho
In 2014, Nude, a painting in the Yamatane Museum of Art’s collection, became the second of Kagaku Murakami’s works to be designated as an Important Cultural Property. In commemoration, the museum is holding a Kagaku retrospective, entitled Kagaku Murakami and Kyoto Artists.
Kagaku was born in Osaka in 1888, spent his childhood in Kobe, and studied the painting program at the Kyoto City School of Arts and Crafts (KCSAC) and at the Kyoto City College of Painting (KCCP). (Both were predecessors of what is now Kyoto City University of Arts.) Although his work was selected early on for the Bunten (Ministry of Education Exhibition), he gradually came to feel dissatisfied with the Bunten’s standard for selection of prizes. He left that organization in 1918 to form the Kokuga Sosaku Kyokai (KSK, meaning Association for the Creation of National Painting; now the Kokugakai) with his schoolmates from the KCCP, including Bakusen Tsuchida and Chikkyo Ono . Cultivating his art in a friendly rivalry with other energetic young artists in that group, he presented ambitious work and established his own world, a world that fused the sensual and the sublime. Starting in 1921, however, his asthma worsened, and he gave up on accompanying his KSK colleagues on a trip to Europe planned for that year.
He gradually withdrew from participating in art circles and, in the final years of his life, lived in seclusion, absorbed in his painting and in thought, focused on creative activities that were a consistent search for truth and a unique nobility.
This exhibition traces Kagaku’s career, from his early period, in which his abilities were first was recognized, through his completion of Nude, in which he depicted his ideal “eternal woman,” and the work through which, constantly confronting and examining himself, he continued to seek a more sublime domain. During his career, and particularly in the period in his twenties and mid thirties in which he continued to show work actively, his fellow Kansai(western Japan) artists were also grappling with trying to breathe new life into the art world and were creating outstanding works. This exhibition thus traces Kagaku’s career, of which his Nude represents one peak, while examining the history of the Kyoto art world at that time through work by Seiho Takeuchi, his instructor in the painting program at KCSAC and KCCP, by his schoolmates Bakusen and Chikkyo, and by Shinso Okamoto and Tadaoto Kainosho, who were also active and members in the Kokuga Sosaku Kyokai.
Part 1: 31st October(Sat)- 23rd November(Mon/Hol) Part 2: 25th November(Sat)-23rd December(Wed/Hol)
Kagaku was born in Osaka in 1888, spent his childhood in Kobe, and studied the painting program at the Kyoto City School of Arts and Crafts (KCSAC) and at the Kyoto City College of Painting (KCCP). (Both were predecessors of what is now Kyoto City University of Arts.) Although his work was selected early on for the Bunten (Ministry of Education Exhibition), he gradually came to feel dissatisfied with the Bunten’s standard for selection of prizes. He left that organization in 1918 to form the Kokuga Sosaku Kyokai (KSK, meaning Association for the Creation of National Painting; now the Kokugakai) with his schoolmates from the KCCP, including Bakusen Tsuchida and Chikkyo Ono . Cultivating his art in a friendly rivalry with other energetic young artists in that group, he presented ambitious work and established his own world, a world that fused the sensual and the sublime. Starting in 1921, however, his asthma worsened, and he gave up on accompanying his KSK colleagues on a trip to Europe planned for that year.
He gradually withdrew from participating in art circles and, in the final years of his life, lived in seclusion, absorbed in his painting and in thought, focused on creative activities that were a consistent search for truth and a unique nobility.
This exhibition traces Kagaku’s career, from his early period, in which his abilities were first was recognized, through his completion of Nude, in which he depicted his ideal “eternal woman,” and the work through which, constantly confronting and examining himself, he continued to seek a more sublime domain. During his career, and particularly in the period in his twenties and mid thirties in which he continued to show work actively, his fellow Kansai(western Japan) artists were also grappling with trying to breathe new life into the art world and were creating outstanding works. This exhibition thus traces Kagaku’s career, of which his Nude represents one peak, while examining the history of the Kyoto art world at that time through work by Seiho Takeuchi, his instructor in the painting program at KCSAC and KCCP, by his schoolmates Bakusen and Chikkyo, and by Shinso Okamoto and Tadaoto Kainosho, who were also active and members in the Kokuga Sosaku Kyokai.
Part 1: 31st October(Sat)- 23rd November(Mon/Hol) Part 2: 25th November(Sat)-23rd December(Wed/Hol)
Schedule | Oct 31 (Sat) 2015-Dec 23 (Wed) 2015 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1200, University and High School Students ¥900, Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificated + 1 Companion free | ||||
| Website | http://www.yamatane-museum.jp/english/index.html#menu4 | ||||
| Venue | Yamatane Museum of Art https://www.yamatane-museum.jp/english/ | ||||
| Location | 3-12-36 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0012 | ||||
| Access | 10 minute walk from Ebisu Station on the Hibiya and JR line; From the West exit of JR Ebisu Station, take the bus and get off at Hiroo High School. The venue is 1 minute walk from there; From the East exit of JR Shibuta Station, take the bus and get off at Higashi 4-chome. The venue is 2 minute walk from there. | ||||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial) | ||||
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