Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Mt. Fuji - Japanese Symbol in the Modern Times" Exhibition
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[0]- Media: Painting - Crafts - Other - Art Talk
- 2008-06-07 - 2008-07-21
Mt. Fuji is a familiar icon, often seen as a subject of worship, which appears in various stories and as a motif in art. How was this collective image of Mt. Fuji developed over time? Since the old times, (...)
"Rural Anthem: Nature and Human Life in Modern Painting" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2008-04-19 - 2008-06-01
In the 19th century, many of the Barbizon and French painters, such as Millet, depicted lives of farmers and scenes in the countryside. These particular subjects were nostalgic for people living in the (...)
Permanent Collection II "The World of Beauty by Hideo Hagiwara"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints - Crafts
- 2008-02-27 - 2008-05-25
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art changes their permanent collection display four times a year. The current exhibition in the South Building presents paintings, prints and glass works by Hideo Hagiwara, (...)
Permanent Collection "Spring"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2008-02-20 - 2008-05-18
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art changes their permanent collection display four times a year. The current exhibition in the main building presents works by artists that are from or lived in Yamanashi, (...)
New Permanent Collection Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2008-01-26 - 2008-03-02
This exhibition presents works newly added to the museum's permanent collections. Nihonga, oil paintings and prints are on display.
Permanent Collection Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2007-11-27 - 2008-02-24
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art changes their display of permanent collection four times a year. In the exhibition space in the main building, Nihonga paintings are on display in several groups. (...)
Ryuta Endo Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2007-10-30 - 2007-12-16
Printmaking artist from Kofu City, Ryuta Endo teaches at Musashino Art University. He mainly works in lithograph, taking "body" themes. In his recent figurative works, the images are extremely abstracted (...)
Yukio Fukazawa "Expressing the Roots of Life"
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- 2007-10-27 - 2007-12-09
Yukio Fukuzawa (1924-) was born in Masuho-cho, Minamikoma-gun in Yamanashi Prefecture. After graduating from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, he started learning copper plate printmaking (...)
"Collection from National Museum in Prague: Rubens and his Time in Brueghel" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-09-08 - 2007-10-14
This exhibition features works by Rubens, one of the most significant painters of the 17th century Baroque period, and other painters from Flanders. A total of 70 pieces from the collection of the National (...)
Original Picture Book Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Painting - Other
- 2007-07-21 - 2007-08-26
Children go through the same picture books over and over again, finding details that adults would easily miss. For children who remember such details, original illustration must look even more interesting. (...)
"Surrealism" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-06-02 - 2007-07-07
Surrealism was a cultural movement attempting to address the question of what reality is. After World War I, in the middle of crisis in Europe, the Surrealists had doubts about rationalistic society, and (...)
Shoko Kawasaki + Kaii Higashiyama Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-04-21 - 2007-05-27
Shoko Kawasaki (1886-1977) developed his original ink drawing style after learning from his father Senko Kawasaki and studying at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. In the Taisho period, he created (...)
Workshop ”Let's Make Things and Play!"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Crafts - Art Talk
- 2007-03-17 - 2007-05-19
The museum is providing activities for children using wooden bricks and recycling materials. On workshop days, the museum exhibition is free for children. Schedule: March 17th (Sat), April 14th (Sat), (...)
Yuriko Matsuda Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2006-12-12 - 2007-03-11
An exhibition of sculptures by Yuriko Matsuda, a resident of Oshino in Yamanashi Prefecture. Works on display include the vibrant "Hasu (water lily)" series, with delicate forms and vivid colors.
"Scenes of Paris" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2006-08-26 - 2006-10-01
The exhibition will present 120 works including documentation by and about artists who were attracted to Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. Most renowned are those associated with the "Ecole de (...)
Takahito Kimura Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Installation
- 2006-08-09 - 2006-10-29
Takahito Kimura produces works based on the concept of "playing with the earth". The work presented in this exhibition, a 4m-wide dome that creates star-shaped patches of light, is part of the "Komorebi (...)
This Face, That Face, All Kinds of Faces
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2006-07-22 - 2006-08-18
The face has been the subject of countless art works since the beginning of time. This exhibition is a selection of 30 works from the museum collection that focus on the face as its main theme. The works (...)
Ernst Barlach Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture
- 2006-06-03 - 2006-07-17
Sculptor, printmaker and playwright, Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) was born outside of Hamburg and spent most of his life in the small village of Gustrow in Mecklenburg. 'Human beings' were Barlach's theme (...)
Chizuru Kasai "Thinking of the Wind"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2006-04-18 - 2006-06-25
The Ohki Foundation gives financial aid to artists that were born in or currently based in Yamanashi Prefecture to support budding artists and to spread art in the area. Final presentations by the recipients (...)
Muneyoshi Yanagi's Folk Art
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- 2006-04-15 - 2006-05-21
Mingei is Japanese for 'folk art'. This exhibition takes a close look at the folk art movement by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961) through Soetsu's collection of Mingei arts and crafts, as well as representative (...)
Permanent Collection - New Acquisitions
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2006-01-28 - 2006-03-12
On show are 21 new additions to the museum's permanent collection including Japanese paintings, contemporary art by local artists and oil paintings from Europe.
Toshio Muramatsu Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Other
- 2005-12-20 - 2006-03-21
Toshio Muramatsu, born in Yamanashi prefecture, creates unique three dimensional works. Introduced in this exhibition is his master piece series, "Sway, Empty Air". With moire and prism light he creates (...)
Hiraki Collection of Japanese Wood Block Prints
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- 2005-11-12 - 2005-12-11
An exhibition of Hiraki Ukiyoe Foundation's ukiyoe collection, one of the best in Japan. It consists of three parts: "Beautiful Women" by Harunobu Suzuki and Utamaro Kitagawa, "Actors" by Sharaku Toshusai (...)
French Paintings from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2005-09-17 - 2005-11-03
The Musée Fabre in Montpellier, southern France city was open to the public in 1828 on the basis of the collection of the painter, Francois-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837). Fabre flourished as an artist of the (...)
Jean Cocteau
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Painting - Crafts
- 2005-08-06 - 2005-09-07
Jean Cocteau was born to a rich family in the suburb of Paris in 1889. Aged 19, he revealed himself a poet and started interacting with various writers, artists, and other public figures. Well aware of (...)
Mt. Fuji Captured in Art
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2005-06-18 - 2005-07-24
Mt. Fuji has been a popular icon since the Heian period. Countless times have its slopes been reproduced on pottery, clothes, ceramics, lacquerware and other craft goods. This exhibition will allow us (...)
Shohin Noguchi and Modern Nanga
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2005-04-23 - 2005-06-05
This exhibition will display 70 works by Shohin Noguchi (1847-1917), alongside 40 works by 20 other Nanga artists, dating from the late Edo Shogunate to the Taisho Period. Noguchi was a leading female (...)
The Reinnovation of Wood Prints - from Koshiro Onchi to Hideo Hagiwara
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2005-02-19 - 2005-03-27
This exhibition will feature over 200 print works by 30 artists. Japanese Wood Prints have changed over the years, from traditional Ukiyo-e to modern art. The Organization for Creative Japanese Prints (...)
New Collection Exhibition: 2003-2004
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- 2005-01-08 - 2005-02-06
Works added to our collection during 2003-2004 will be on display, including Theodore Rousseau's "Clearing in the Forest near Fontainebleau" (1866).
Norio Hosaka Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Crafts
- 2004-11-16 - 2005-01-16
Norio Hosaka is an artist who works with bamboo, a traditional Japanese resource. This exhibition features an installation illuminated from within. Please enjoy the magical ambience created by the interplay (...)
Man Ray Exhibition: "I am a Mystery"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Film
- 2004-11-03 - 2004-12-15
Man Ray (1890-1976) was an American avant-garde artist who participated in European art movements like Dadaism and Surrealism. Known primarily as a photographer, he was also prominent in various other (...)
Japanese paintings in Kyoto
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- 2004-09-11 - 2004-10-24
The well-known aritsts in Kyoto inherited the Maruyama-Shijyo style, which started from Edo period, based on sketch illustrations, and created the new era for the Japanese painting. The Kyoto drawing school (...)
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3D
- Architecture (9)
- Sculpture (65)
- Installation (34)
- Furniture (7)
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- Crafts (43)
- Ceramics (19)
- Other (58)
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- Film (14)
- Video installation (17)
- Digital (9)
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Misc.
- Art Party (36)
- Art Talk (61)
- Performance Art (6)
- Art Competition (4)
In & Around:
Ginza, Shimbashi(65) Ueno(34) Kiyosumi, Odaiba(17) Nihonbashi, Kudanshita(63) Omotesando(45) Shinjuku(58) Shibuya(30) Roppongi(46) Nakameguro(32) Musashino, Tama(34) Yokohama, Kanagawa(25) Kanto: others(42)
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