What Do You See When You Look at Pictures?

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

Finished

Artists

Takanobu Kobayashi, John Constable, Shigeru Aoki, Alexandre Cabanel, Fuki Sekiya et al.

The summer season exhibition offers new approaches to the collection. At the first gallery, visitors will see many faces looking back at them. Self-portraits of artists tell why they paint themselves, how they look, and how they want to been seen. One of earliest self-portraits of Fujita, discovered last year, will be on show for the first time together with his most famous self-portrait from 1929 (collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). Faces will be followed by storytelling. John Sloan and his student Toshi Shimizu are the heroes here. They depict scenes of downtown New York in the first quarter of the 20th century. You will find the most interesting stories in the dark night in Chinatown. Far away from New York, Tochigi Prefecture is place of natural beauty. The next section introduces stories of artists and places. In the early spring of 1946, half a year after Japan’s loss of the war, Goro Tsuruta stayed in Tochigi. Even with his sorrow and regret, his paintings of the Nikko Mountains make us feel at peace. The last section shows contemporary works including dynamic brush works, some painted not with a brush, but with the artist’s own foot. Be astonished by the energetic strokes of these painters.

Schedule

Jun 29 (Sat) 2019-Aug 25 (Sun) 2019

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 ¥260, University and High School Students ¥120, Junior High School Students and Under free. Special Exhibition Fees may be charged separately.

Website

http://www.art.pref.tochigi.lg.jp/en/exhibition/t190629/index.html