Yokohama Museum of Art opened to the public on November 3, 1989. It is one of the largest art institutions in Japan. With its iconic architecture, featuring the expansive space of the Grand Gallery, the museum is made up of a total of seven gallery spaces, as well as an Art Information and Media Center that holds over 100,000 art-related books, ateliers hosting a wide range of workshops for children and adults, and many other facilities.
Located in the international seaport city of Yokohama, the museum focuses on collecting and showing modern and contemporary art created since the late 19th century, when the port of Yokohama opened, alongside many special exhibitions.
Website:
http://yokohama.art.museum/eng/index.html
Location:
3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 220-0012, Japan
Established:
1989
Collection:
A collection of art from the late 19 th century through to the present day, including Dali, Magritte, Cézanne, Picasso, as well as works by artists who have been associated with Yokohama since the end of Edo period and through the Meiji period.
【Exhibition】
NAKAJIMA Kiyoshi Retrospective:
Exploring the Kaleidoscopic World of an Innovative Nihonga Painter
Nakajima Kiyoshi was born in Kyoto in 1899. At age 16, he moved to Yokohama, where he worked in a bank while studying painting at MATSUMOTO Fuko’s "Angado" painting school.
Except for three years during World War II when he relocated to Nagano prefecture, Kiyoshi lived in Yokohama all his life and contributed to the local art scene. Now Yokohama Museum of Art owns a lot of his works.
This exhibition follows Kiyoshi’s entire career from youth to old age, exploring his changing interests in motifs and methods. It introduces studies and sketches in addition to finished works to provide a better understanding of his unique way of developing pictorial compositions. The stylistic shifts in Kiyoshi’s paintings reflect the times in which he lived, which saw dramatic transformations in people’s lives and values.
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Date November 20th, 2015
