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Kazuho Hieda Exhibition
Tanabe City Museum of Art
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Kazuho Hieda
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, and the Tanabe City Museum of Art will jointly hold a retrospective exhibition of Japanese painter Hieda Ippo (1920-2021), a native of Tanabe, Wakayama, who died last March at the age of 100.
Hieda, who aspired to become a Japanese-style painter in his mid-teens, studied at the Tokyo Fine Arts School and began his career as a painter in earnest after World War II. His simple yet powerful expression that celebrates life, with birds as his main motif, and his composition that demonstrates the characteristics of his painting materials while being aware of global painting trends, opened up the horizon of Japanese-style painting.
In addition, from the age of 60, he began to focus on two major themes: solemn landscapes of his hometown, Kumano in Wakayama, which remind us of the eternal time, and poetic scenes of daily life in the town of Seijo, Tokyo, where he has lived for a long time. The works are not only individual pieces, but also create a unique worldview that invites the viewer to deep contemplation and imagination as they move from one place to the next.
At the Tanabe City Museum of Art, we will review Hieda's entire career through major works from each period. The exhibition at the Tanabe City Museum of Art will also feature works on the theme of Kumano and will be an opportunity to remember the artist, who spent more than 80 years in the study of Japanese-style painting and left a significant mark on prewar and postwar painting.
Hieda, who aspired to become a Japanese-style painter in his mid-teens, studied at the Tokyo Fine Arts School and began his career as a painter in earnest after World War II. His simple yet powerful expression that celebrates life, with birds as his main motif, and his composition that demonstrates the characteristics of his painting materials while being aware of global painting trends, opened up the horizon of Japanese-style painting.
In addition, from the age of 60, he began to focus on two major themes: solemn landscapes of his hometown, Kumano in Wakayama, which remind us of the eternal time, and poetic scenes of daily life in the town of Seijo, Tokyo, where he has lived for a long time. The works are not only individual pieces, but also create a unique worldview that invites the viewer to deep contemplation and imagination as they move from one place to the next.
At the Tanabe City Museum of Art, we will review Hieda's entire career through major works from each period. The exhibition at the Tanabe City Museum of Art will also feature works on the theme of Kumano and will be an opportunity to remember the artist, who spent more than 80 years in the study of Japanese-style painting and left a significant mark on prewar and postwar painting.
Schedule | Nov 19 (Sat) 2022-Jan 15 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥600, Students and Under Age 18 free. | ||||
| Website | https://www.city.tanabe.lg.jp/bijutsukan/exhibitions/R41119hieda.html | ||||
| Venue | Tanabe City Museum of Art https://www.city.tanabe.lg.jp/bijutsukan/ | ||||
| Location | 24-43 Takinai-cho, Tanabe-shi, Wakayama 646-0015 | ||||
| Access | From Kiitanabe Station on the JR Kii Main line, take the #12 Meiko bus towards Sandanheki and get off at Shinjo Byoin-mae. The venue is 5 minute walk from there. | ||||
| Phone | 0739-24-3770 | ||||
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