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IMPRESSIONISTS

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 28, 2016
'Mary Cassatt Retrospective'
Until Sept.11
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 14, 2016
Renoir's true colors could rescue him from the haters
It's been a few years since the last big Pierre-Auguste Renoir exhibition in town. The last one, if I remember correctly, was "Renoir: Tradition & Innovation" at the National Art Center Tokyo (NACT). That brought over the French impressionist's "Dance at Bougival" (1883), an excellent painting, but padded out the rest of the show largely with inferior works, leaving a generally negative impression — no pun intended.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 6, 2015
First impressions of the late impressionists
Any great story tends to focus on a limited number of characters, with everybody else either reduced to anonymity or the status of extras. In literary fiction or movies this is never a problem, but when the narrative is a historical one, it can lead to a certain amount of neglect and unfairness.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 1, 2015
'The Last Impressionists: Time of Intimacy'
Sept. 5-Nov. 8
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 7, 2015
'Cezanne'
April 4-Sept. 27
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 18, 2014
Taking a pictorial trip to Normandy
"Normandie — L'Estuaire de la Seine: L'Invention d'Un Paysage" ("Normandy — The Seine Estuary: The invention of a Landscape" is an exhibition at the Sompo Japan Museum of Art that recently changed its name to Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art. Just as the museum's name is rather too long — something to do with changes in the corporation that owns it — so the title of this exhibition feels elongated and cumbersome.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 29, 2014
'Salvador Dali and Masters of Modern French Painting from the Collection of Morohashi Museum of Modern Art'
The Morohashi Museum of Modern Art in Fukushima Prefecture houses an impressive collection of European modern masterpieces, including a number of works by Spanish Surrealist genius Salvador Dali.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2013
'Masterpieces from the Collection of Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo 2013'
During the 19th and 20th centuries, Paris gained a reputation as a cultural hub of Europe. It attracted artists such as Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Odilon Redon, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Felix Vallotton — all of whom inspired and influenced each other's work. It was also an era of change, when such artists sought to create new and unique forms of expression. They began concentrating on depicting dreams and ideals or notions of cultural freedom.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 7, 2013
Such sweet strokes of the Impressionists
A horde of Renoirs and other works from the high-water mark of Impressionism have descended on Tokyo — rampaging in their quiet, colorful way through the labyrinthine exhibition spaces of Tokyo's Mitsubishi Ichigokan.

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