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Okyo Maruyama "Revealing Painting's Depth"
Mitsui Memorial Museum
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Okyo Maruyama
The subject of this exhibition, Maruyama Okyo, was a major Kyoto area painter in the latter half of the 18th century. His bright and beautiful painting style was greatly enjoyed by the upper ranks of the Kyoto townspeople of the day. The Mitsui family, one of the wealthy merchant families of the period, was one of Okyo’s major patrons. As a result, our museum houses many of the works that were born of this relationship between Okyo and the Mitsui family.
The Mitsui Bunko Museum of Art, the predecessor to our museum, previously held two special exhibitions on Okyo, the Sketching from Life and Landscape Painting by Maruyama Okyo exhibition in 1988, followed by the Maruyama Okyo and the Mitsui Family exhibition held in the year 2000. Further, since the opening of the Mitsui Memorial Museum, it has become our tradition to exhibit the museum’s National Treasure Pine Trees in Snow screens by Okyo as part of the museum’s New Year’s festivities. There is an ever increasing number of admirers of these paintings who visit this display each and every year.
The current exhibition was planned so that visitors can enjoy the splendor and fascination of Okyo’s large-scale works. Okyo depicted a three-dimensional, depth-filled world in the midst of the flat painting medium. The exhibition galleries have been arranged to provide visitors with a firsthand experience of the rich visual space created by Okyo the “painter of space”, from his stereoscope pictures created during his early study of perspective methods, to such large-scale works as folding screens and sliding door panel paintings.
The Mitsui Bunko Museum of Art, the predecessor to our museum, previously held two special exhibitions on Okyo, the Sketching from Life and Landscape Painting by Maruyama Okyo exhibition in 1988, followed by the Maruyama Okyo and the Mitsui Family exhibition held in the year 2000. Further, since the opening of the Mitsui Memorial Museum, it has become our tradition to exhibit the museum’s National Treasure Pine Trees in Snow screens by Okyo as part of the museum’s New Year’s festivities. There is an ever increasing number of admirers of these paintings who visit this display each and every year.
The current exhibition was planned so that visitors can enjoy the splendor and fascination of Okyo’s large-scale works. Okyo depicted a three-dimensional, depth-filled world in the midst of the flat painting medium. The exhibition galleries have been arranged to provide visitors with a firsthand experience of the rich visual space created by Okyo the “painter of space”, from his stereoscope pictures created during his early study of perspective methods, to such large-scale works as folding screens and sliding door panel paintings.
Schedule | Oct 9 (Sat) 2010-Nov 28 (Sun) 2010 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1200, University and High School Students ¥700 | ||||
| Website | http://www.mitsui-museum.jp/english/english.html | ||||
| Venue | Mitsui Memorial Museum http://www.mitsui-museum.jp/english/english.html | ||||
| Location | 7F Mitsui Honkan, 2-1-1 Nihonbashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0022 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit A7 at Mitsukoshimae Station on the Ginza and Hanzomon lines, 4 minute walk from exit B11 at Nihombashi Station on the Ginza and Tozai lines or Toei Asakusa line, 7 minute walk from Nihombashi exit of JR Tokyo Station. | ||||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 | ||||
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