The Youth of Japanese Oil Painting: Young Painters of Mie in the Meiji Period

About

Date

January 27 - April 14, 2024

Location

Temporary Exhibition Galleries 1-4

Hours

9:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m.

Closed

Mondays (except February 12), February 13

Admission fee

Adults: 1,000 (800) yen
Students: 800 (600) yen
High school students and younger: Free
Prices in parentheses are for groups of more than 20 persons.
Persons with disability, one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge.

Organization

■Organized by
Mie Prefectural Art Museum
The Asahi Shimbun

■With the grant of
Okada Cultural Foundation
Mie Prefectural Art Museum Assistance Foundation

■Cooperated with
Tsu Senior High School
Tsu Senior High School Class Reunion
TAKADA GAKUEN

 

Exhibition Overview

     When oil paintings began to spread in Japan, artists such as Fujishima Takeji, Kanokogi Takeshiro, and Akamatsu Rinsaku, who would go on to leave their names in modern art history, were assigned to Mie as art teachers, and each of them left their own influences and footprints here. It was not until later in life that they became known as famous painters, and although they only spent a brief period of time in their twenties in Mie, it was here that they envisioned their future and cultivated the driving force to spread their wings. They set out on a journey from the platform called Mie, Fujishima in Tokyo, Kanokogi in Kyoto, and Akamatsu in Osaka, where they each worked as the Western-style painters, and also worked as educators and fostered the next generation in each region.

     Furthermore, the youth they spent as painters coincided with the period when oil paintings, while being called "Youga" (Western-style paintings), took root as Japanese art. The period from the 1900s to the 1930s could be called the "Youth of Western Paintings", and a series of works filled with vitality were produced one after another.

     The Mie Prefectural Art Museum , which opened in 1982, has collected and researched modern Japanese oil paintings, called "Youga", as one of its collection policies. We have held many exhibitions focusing on houses. The theme of this exhibition is "Youga", which occupy an important position in the museum's collection, and we will look back at the works of Japanese oil painters with connections to Mie, as well as introduce the state of art in Mie and art education at the time.

⇒ List of the Works
 

Events During the Exhibition

Lecture: Starting with “Tsu Station (Haruko)” －“Youth” in Meiji Western Painting Research

Lecturer: Kojima Kaoru (Professor of Jissen Women's University)
Sunday, March 3
14:00- (about 90 min.)
at the Auditrium
Free of Charge
Japanese only

Walking around Tsu Town

Wednesday (Vernal Equinox Day), March 20
13:30 - 15:30
Application required
Free of Charge
Guided by Japanese only

Gallery Talk by the Curator of Mie Prefectural Art Museum

Sunday, February 11, 14:00- (About 30 min.)
Saturday, March 16, 14:00- (About 30 min.)
at the gallery
Free of Charge
Japanese only