| Masterworks from the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein |
March 19
(Tuesday)
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June 9
(Sunday) |
This is the first introduction in Japan to the collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein, a small principality in central Europe. The collection is one of the foremost Ruben’s collections in the world including the painter’s much loved daughter in the ‘Portrait of Clara Serena Rubens,’there will be eighty-eight paintings and other works exhibited including artists such as Raphael, Rembrandt, and Van Dyck, spanning the 16th to 19th centuries. A special room named the "Baroque Salon" has been made for the exhibition which displays paintings and interior decorations in tandem, reproducing the atmosphere of the palace where the collection can usually be seen. |
| Van Gogh in Paris: New Perspectives |
April 2
(Tuesday)
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May 19
(Sunday) |
Van Gogh has the image of being an ‘idealist, stubborn, a genius with an intense personality that burns and extinguishes like a flame.’ Was Van Gogh a genius from the beginning? The answer to this lies hidden in the 700 days of his blank Paris period. From the artworks of this Paris period for which there is no extant correspondence between the artist and his brother Theo, we can close in on the real image of Van Gogh from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. This is a new exhibition concerning how Van Gogh emerged as himself from the frustrations of regeneration and solitude. We can also read in the artworks an earlier glimpse of Japan and the mysterious connection he had with it. |
A Commemorative Exhibition Celebrating 80 Years Since the Inauguration of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
The Municipal Exhibition ・ The Story of the Kyoten - They All Took Off From Here |
June 14
(Friday)
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August 18
(Sunday) |
Held under the diminutives ‘Shiten’ (Municipal Exhibition) in the pre-war period and ‘Kyoten’ (Kyoto Exhibition) in the postwar period, this public juried exhibition of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art holds eighty years of history. These Shiten and Kyoten have been gateways to success that have allowed artists from not only Kyoto but the West Japan region to leave the nest. Through these historical public juried exhibitions, this exhibition allows us to take into account what art has aimed at across different periods. |
A Commemorative Exhibition Celebrating 80 Years Since the Inauguration of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Kyoten 2013 |
July 3
(Wednesday)
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July 19
(Friday) |
The Kyoten is the comprehensive public juried exhibition organized by Kyoto City. Prize-winning and selected works from across the six divisions of Japanese-style painting (nihonga), Western-style painting (yoga), crafts, sculpture, prints and calligraphy will be exhibited. |
A Commemorative Exhibition Celebrating 80 Years Since the Inauguration of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and the 40th Commemoration of the Resumption of the Kyoto Inten Exhibitions
The 98th Inten: Exhibition of the Japan Art Institute |
September 20
(Friday)
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October 6
(Sunday) |
The exhibition will show approximately 120 new works of Japanese-style painting (nihonga) by members of the Japan Art Institute including other selected works. |
A Commemorative Exhibition Celebrating 80 Years Since the Inauguration of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Drawings for Nihonga: The Preparatory Drawings and Sketches of Takeuchi Seiho |
October 19
(Saturday)
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December 1
(Sunday) |
In nihonga, preparatory drawings allow us to see the forms of the process of trial and error that artists go through in order to arrive at a completed picture. Most are without color and instead utilize the drawn line from which the special qualities of the painter’s picture manifests. In this exhibition, through the preparatory drawings and sketches of Kyoto’s modern nihonga representative, Takeuchi Seiho, the elements leading to the movements that can be seen between pictures, their assemblage and combination are sought in order to discover the attractions of Seiho’s art. |
A Commemorative Exhibition Celebrating 80 Years Since the Inauguration of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Takeuchi Seiho - The Master of Modern Nihonga |
October 22
(Tuesday)
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December 1
(Sunday) |
Born in Kyoto, Takeuchi Seiho (1864-1942) was an artist who succeeded in the major role of modernizing nihonga. Based on his experience of study and travel abroad in Western Europe in the Meiji period, Seiho was able to incorporate it into the sketching from life and sketching the idea, so important to the Shijo School conception of picture making, to arrive at a thorough form of actual observation that created a new style in Japanese painting circles. Seiho was to amass a great number of followers and his influence was exceedingly large. Seiho was a great artist instrumental in founding this museum and he is the representative artist of the museum’s collection. This exhibition brings together under one roof approximately 100 representative works from the collections of a variety of places in addition to approximately fifty other materials in which we can savor the art and review the artist’s significance in this rare opportunity. |
| The 45th Nitten Kyoto Exhibition |
December 14
(Saturday)
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January 19
(Sunday) |
Japan’s largest comprehensive public juried exhibition, the Nitten, arrives in Kyoto. The exhibition is divided into five fields, Japanese-style painting (nihonga), Western-style painting (yoga), sculpture, industrial arts and crafts and calligraphy. An approximate 300 base works travel around the country and to this are added around another 300 from artists based in Kyoto and Shiga, bringing the total number of works for exhibition to 600 pieces. |
A Commemorative Exhibition Celebrating 80 Years Since the Inauguration of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
The Beauty of Kyoto・ The Beauty of the Collection・ To the Beauty of Tomorrow - The Confidences Bestowed by the Collection of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art |
December 14
(Saturday)
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February 23
(Sunday) |
The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, as a public art museum, established a collection from the prewar years, subsequently carrying out exhibitions of the permanent collection. Why must an art museum be given birth? How should an art museum's collection be formed? From the point of view of ‘the formation of the art museum’s collection,’ the exhibition deals with the issue of how the art museum can grasp the art of today. |
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