Rimpa and Impressionism: Arts Produced by Urban Cultures, East and West （Artizon Museum）

Rimpa and Impressionism: Arts Produced by Urban Cultures, East and West

Finished

Artists

Sotatsu Tawaraya, Korin Ogata, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot et al.

The Rimpa school of painting was initiated by Tawaraya Sotatsu in the early seventeenth century. It evolved through the work of Ogata Korin in the early eighteenth century and Sotatsu’s and Korin’s colleagues in context of the townsman culture of Kyoto, then Japan’s imperial capital. In the early nineteenth century, Rimpa was carried on by artists such as Sakai Hoitsu and Suzuki Kiitsu, in Edo (today’s Tokyo), the shogun’s headquarters. In Edo, the evolving Rimpa school became an urban genre with a decorative aesthetic at its core. Impressionism was an innovative, modern school of art that emerged in Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Centered on Paris, the Impressionists included artists such as Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Paul Cézanne who candidly expressed their impressions of their everyday experiences and the delights of urban lifestyles. This exhibition is an innovative attempt to compare and survey, through works by artistic geniuses nurtured by urban cultures in Japan and Europe, East and West, what the sophisticated aesthetics characteristic of major metropolises achieved. The exhibition includes the Impressionist masterpieces that are the core of our collection and Rimpa works from our collection being shown for the first time, plus masterworks from temples and museums in Japan. The hundred exhibits include two National Treasures and six Important Cultural Properties. Rimpa and Impressionism, a watershed exhibition, makes “urban culture” its lens in reassessing Eastern and Western art.

First half: November 14 [Saturday] to December 20 [Sunday], 2020
Second half: December 22 [Tuesday], 2020, to January 24 [Sunday], 2021

*Entry to the Artizon Museum uses the designated entry system by date and time. Free for students, but advance booking is required. Children up to junior high school age are admitted free. (No advanced booking is required.)

Schedule

Nov 14 (Sat) 2020-Jan 24 (Sun) 2021

Opening Hours Information

Hours	10:00-18:00 Closes at 20:00 on Fridays.
Closed	Monday Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. Closed during the New Year holidays and in between exhibitions.
Notice	Open on 11/23 and 1/11. Closed on 11/24, 12/28-1/4, 1/12. Late openings (until 20:00 on Fridays) suspended until further notice.

Fee

Online tickets: Adults ¥1700, Students free.

Website

https://www.artizon.museum/exhibition_sp/rimpa/en/

Venue

Artizon Museum
https://www.artizon.museum/en/

Location

1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031

Open with a Map App

Access

5 minute walk from the Yaesu Central exit of JR Tokyo Station, 5 minute walk from exit 6 at Kyobashi Station on the Ginza line, 5 minute walk from exit B1 at Nihombashi Station on the Ginza and Tozai lines or Toei Asakusa line.

Phone

050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial)

Related images

Click on the image to enlarge it