Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"Chinese Landscape, Flowers and Birds -Masterpiece from Ming and Qing Dynasties" Exhibition
China has long been the East Asian center of painting and has cultivated traditions of its own. Groups of both quantitatively and qualitatively exquisite works, often depicting enchanted landscapes, lovely (...)
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Takemasa Nakamura + Ayako Nakamura Exhibition
Etching-like woodblock prints and contemporary ceramic objets are on display.
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"Southern Islands for the Artists" Exhibition
During Meiji period, Japan started advancing to Micronesian Islands. In parallel with the beginning of the World War I, Japan took over the islands and started to govern them by 1921. From Taisho period (...)
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"Ukiyoe Masterpieces - 150th Anniversary of the Era of Hiroshige" Exhibition
This year is the 150th anniversary of the passing of the popular Ukiyoe artist from the late Edo era, Hiroshige Utagawa. Hiroshige was born into a samurai family, but started studying under Toyohiro Utagawa (...)
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"The World of Umetaro Azechi from the Museum Collection Exhibition"
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"Woodblock Prints East vs. West - From Buddhist Prints to the Present Day" Exhibition
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"Colourful World! Print and Colour" Exhibition
This exhibition mainly features prints from Europe, including multicolored wood prints and copper plate prints, pieces that one would mistake for watercolors or pastel paintings, as well as lithographs, (...)
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"Ryoji Kumata and Friends - Shiko Munakata & Yasunori Taninaka" Exhibition
Featuring the work of Ryoji Kumata, as well as that of Shinko Munakata and Yasunori Taninaka, whose prints featured in a magazine published by Kumata, this exhibition showcases three of pre-war Japan's (...)
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"Messages from the War Dead" Exhibition
Artist Yoshito Takeda believes that if Japan were ever to head into war again, the people who would be saddest about it would be the many Japanese who died during the Pacific War. The works on display (...)
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"Longing for China - Looking into the Secrets of Japanese Art" Exhibition
This exhibition is being held in celebration of the museum's 20th anniversary. Since the ancient past, Japan has learned a lot from Chinese culture, and needless to say this is true of Japanese art as (...)
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"Reiji Kikuchi and his Era" Exhibition
Reiji Kikuchi only lived a brief 22 years (from 1946 to 1968). This exhibition presents an overview of his short but active period of artistic productivity.
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Marc Chagall "Dead Souls"
In 1922 the twentieth-century painter and printmaker Marc Chagall (1887-1985) started a life moving among cities such as Berlin and Paris in order to escape from post-revolutionary Russia. It was during (...)
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20th Machida Elementary and Junior High Schools Art Exhibition
•Junior High School Art Exhibition January 12 (Fri) - 21 (Sun) •Elementary Drawing Workshop Exhibition January 26 (Fri) - February 4 (Sun) •Elementary School Calligraphy Exhibition February 9 (...)
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Exhibition of Newly Acquired Works
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The Color of Prints Exhibition 2006
Art based universities have always played a significant role in supporting the art industry. The University Print Association, initially established for the research and education of printmaking, has been (...)
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Yoshikuni Iida "The Light of Poetry - The Shape of Colour"
• Gallery Talk "Museum director Tetsuro Murata talks about Yoshikuni Iida's world" Saturday 7th October, from 14:00 (lasting approx. 40min); entry with exhibition ticket; gathering point at entrance (...)
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"Famous Lithographs" Exhibition
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The Golden Era of Print - "The Woodblock Prints of Tsukuhae"
This exhibition introduces visitors to the artist's work from between the early 1910s to 1923, when the Great Kanto Earthquake struck. While these prints were made almost a century ago, the exhibition's (...)
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Meiji Woodblock Prints "Kunichika & Yoshitoshi - The Masters of of the Utagawa School"
This exhibition consists of approximately 90 works by the woodblock printers Yoshitoshi and Kunichika. In addition are 20 works by Kunichika's students Toshikata Mizuno and Toshihide Migita and Kunichika's (...)
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Koshiro Onchi Wood Block Prints
Forty works by modernist Koshiro Onchi (1891-1955), an artist who led the contemporary Japanese art world from the early Taisho period to mid Showa period. In 1924, Onchi started the magazine "Tsukuhae" (...)
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"Ukiyo-e Modern"
This exhibition is a showcase of the extravagance of 'modern ukiyoe', a fusion of ukiyoe and woodcut printing. From the Taisho Period to the early Showa Period, many ukiyoe works of scenery, women, and (...)
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Horst Janssen - A Man Obsessed By Painting
Horst Janssen (1929-1995) is one of the German representative artists of the 20th century. His outstanding talent was revealed while still in art school and he was described as "the first draughtsman since (...)
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Prints from the Everyday Life
Mass media send out countless images through newspapers, television and the Internet everyday. Those images give us more knowledge and make our everyday life more enjoyable. Does this mean that life was (...)
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The Multiples Show - From Duchamp to Lichtenstein
This exhibition presents the "Multiples" of 20th century art. In the art world, "Multiples" refer to those works with many editions. In a broad sense, prints are also multiples. However, this exhibition (...)
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Prints of Toyokuni Utagawa the Third
A display of 60 Ukiyo-e prints by Toyokuni Utagawa the Third (1786-1864), a famous artist of the end of the Edo period. 30 of them from 04/01 to 05/08, and other 30 prints from 05/10 to 06/22.
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Currents in Modern Prints: To the Future...
Freed from government repression after the Second World War, Japanese Print-makers sought after a new mode of expression in wood prints. However, the 1950s saw a new breed of young artists who found their (...)
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Various Prints / "The New 100 Great Sights of Japan"
"The New 100 Great Sights of Japan" was a series of print collections inaugurated in 1938. It was known for the participation of renowned authors such as Umetaro Azechi. 39 pieces will be displayed in (...)
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Colors of Printing 2004: The 29th National Exhibition of Students' Prints
On show are over 300 prints by Japanese college students, in addition to 24 works from foreign universities. This exhibition celebrates the spread of printing since the establishment of the specific major (...)
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Print works from Edo period
The exhibition will display many of the print works, which are influenced heavily by the Chinese art, flourished in Edo period.
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The 18th Exhibition of Children's Artworks
This exhibition presents the artworks and caligraphy by children in public elementary and junior high schools in Machida city.





