Artists of Shunyo-kai: Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary
開具日期: 2023-9-16
結帳日期: 2024-11-12
排程: Tue - Sun 9 am - 6 pm
票務: 1400 Yen
位置: Tokyo Station Gallery
地址: 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
An artistic society founded by artists. An artistic society with a hundred-year history. It is Shunyo-kai, a "club" where - since its foundation - the members respect the originality of each one and where the group supports the activities that each member carries out with a free spirit. The founders did not aim to become a group of artists with similar artistic principles. Instead, they preferred "individualism" and believed it was important to respect the originality of each artist. In Shunyo-kai, artists commented on each other's works to further their studies, raise the next generation, and solidify their foundation. In the Shunyo-kai exhibitions, not only oil paintings but also prints, drawings, ink paintings, and original works for newspaper illustrations were presented. Famous yōga painters (Western-style painting) such as Kosugi Hōan, Kimura Shōhachi and Hasegawa Kiyoshi were active in the group of which in this exhibition we will see over 100 works from its foundation in 1922 to the 1950s.
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Mohri Yuko's first large-scale exhibition in Tokyo, where the artist presents new and older works in a "jam session" with works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection.
For Henri Matisse his atelier was a fundamental space to exercise his artistic practice. This exhibition explores the relationship between the artist and his creative space and the crucial role that Matisse's studio played in the imagination of the great French painter in the last phase of his life.