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Okoku Konoshima - Lost in Sansui Painting
Sen-Oku Hakukokan Museum Tokyo
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Okoku Konoshima
The Japanese painter Okoku Konoshima (1877-1938) has been reappraised in recent years for epitomizing the art world of early modern Kyoto. Though well known for his animal paintings, Konoshima is no less notable for the fact that he was a lifelong painter of landscapes.
His youth spent sketching scenery throughout Japan allowed him to develop a modernistic style of landscape painting incorporating the spatial awareness of Western painting. Meanwhile, due to his affinity for Chinese poetry from an early age and his love of ancient Chinese and Japanese paintings, Konoshima gradually arrived at novel yet familiar representations of landscapes that seem to transplant the idealized world of Chinese literati into Japanese scenery. This exhibition also introduces Konoshima's landscape sketches as well as the paintings and bonseki, stones that represent landscape scenery, that he collected. While providing an overview of his diverse landscape paintings, it probes their underlying “landscapes in one’s heart.”
His youth spent sketching scenery throughout Japan allowed him to develop a modernistic style of landscape painting incorporating the spatial awareness of Western painting. Meanwhile, due to his affinity for Chinese poetry from an early age and his love of ancient Chinese and Japanese paintings, Konoshima gradually arrived at novel yet familiar representations of landscapes that seem to transplant the idealized world of Chinese literati into Japanese scenery. This exhibition also introduces Konoshima's landscape sketches as well as the paintings and bonseki, stones that represent landscape scenery, that he collected. While providing an overview of his diverse landscape paintings, it probes their underlying “landscapes in one’s heart.”
Schedule | Jun 3 (Sat) 2023-Jul 23 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1200; University and High School Students ¥800; Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates free. | ||||
| Website | https://sen-oku.or.jp/program/2023_konoshimaokoku_tokyo/ | ||||
| Venue | Sen-Oku Hakukokan Museum Tokyo https://sen-oku.or.jp/tokyo/ | ||||
| Location | 1-5-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 4 minute walk from exit 3 at Roppongi-itchome Station on the Namboku line, 6 minute walk from exit 4b at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial) | ||||
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