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Innocence | Yokoyama Taikan

Spring Exhibition CLOSED

大展示室

Ideal Expression of People in Japanese Painting
HUMAN
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March 1 (Wed) ‐ May 31 (Wed), 2017
Human beings have been an attractive motif for painters in all periods and cultures. Various expressions of people can be seen in modern Japanese paintings, including bijin-ga (beautiful woman paintings), which successfully expressed women’s decorous figures and their internal feelings, as well as paintings depicting characters in history and literature. Modern painters deepened their thoughts on Japanese tradition or history in the process of seeking the expressions that suited the next generation, influenced by Western painting styles. For them, the motif of “human” was a good subject to express not only the human condition, but also the period’s concepts and ideals. Such works are not simply portraits; they are works that realized the painters’ ideals.
This exhibition will introduce masterpieces depicting people, which will be selected from the museum’s collection, and Buddhist paintings, which are the supreme expression of humans. We hope you will enjoy the ideal human expressions depicted by masters of the modern Japanese art world, including Uemura Shoen and Kaburaki Kiyokata, who are famous for bijin-ga, Kobayashi Kokei and Yasuda Yukihiko, who favored historical paintings, and Irie Hako and Murakami Kagaku, who produced Buddhist painting masterpieces.
上村松園「娘深雪」HP
Uemura Shoen "Daughter Miyuki"
(1914)
小展示室

Seasonal Japanese Paintings 1
Enjoy “Spring”
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In the Attached Exhibition Room, we will display Japanese paintings that give seasonal impressions throughout the year. This exhibition will feature works depicting spring flowers, such as plum flowers giving an atmosphere of sweet incense, cherry blossoms with beautiful petals, and large peony flowers blooming heartily.
榊原紫峰「冨貴草」小展
Sakakibara Shiho
"Peonies"
(1938)
大観室

Spring Special Exhibition
Selected Yokoyama Taikan Collection
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The Adachi Museum of Art houses about 120 Taikan works from his early to later years, and always exhibits about 20 of his works in the Yokoyama Taikan Special Exhibition Room. In the Spring Special Exhibition, we will exhibit his masterpieces, including Sunrise on the Sea expressing a dynamic morning sun and Mountain after a Shower depicting Mt. Fuji’s noble peak as part of the Twenty Scenes of the Sea and Mt. Fuji series.
横山大観「蓬莱山」大観室
Yokoyama Taikan
"Mt. Penglai (Mountain of Immortals)"
(1948)