All of Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of the Mie Prefectural Art Museum

26 April to 8 June 2008

Hours: 9:30a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Entry is permitted thirty minutes before the galleries are closed.
Closed: Closed on Mondays except the 16th July

Admission:
Adults: 500 (400) Yen
Students (College or senior high): 400(300) Yen
Students (elementary or junior high school): no charge
(Conｃession for groups or advanced tickets)

Anybody may have painted by watercolor. Watercolor, which one can handle easily only by mixing with water, was manufactured during the Industrial Revolution in England, and gained great popularity at the latter half of Meiji era in Japan. It was led up by a pamphlet for amateur titled Guidebook to Watercolor published by a painter Oshita Tojiro on 1901. In those days watercolor became chic medium with western flavor, and at the same time was recognized as not only preparatory stage toward oil painting or Japanese traditional painting, but also independent medium capable to be sent to exhibition.

　Mie Prefectural Art Museum has collected watercolors and drawings by which one can discern background of artists’ creative activity. On this exhibition we show watercolors and drawings either as sketch for preparation of oil painting or sculpture, or as finished tableau, collectively from the collection of the Mie Prefectural Art Museum after the lapse of 17 years. We hope viewers to enjoy over attraction of watercolor and drawing which express directly artist's breathing.

●Composition of the exhibition

1st chapter: From Meiji era to Taisho era