Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)

(Translated by Google Translate)

Monet's one artist who most Japanese prefer. At the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno, if an exhibition bearing the name of the Monet, many people visit is, you can easily imagine.

However, in the exhibit, which consists of about 100 works, the works of Monet, there is only less than 40 points, and the other is made up of works of painters of his era and Monet.

The name of this exhibition  might be good for business, but it is as representing the contents carefully, I can not say very much.

Exhibition itself is very interesting. Topics and landscape of one, it is so constructed that can be compared side by side, how painters and other Monet, or painted.

Was planned jointly this exhibition, works that were on display is made up of collections of the National Museum of Western Art, and the Pola Museum of Art. Or because of that, it is attacked by a sense that there is that sometimes, you have seen before.

Camille Pissarro , one of the most my favorite painter. The painting of Pissarro , may not be a big feature to say this, but every time you seen the picture of him , for some reason , get the feeling that you are very calm .

The work winter scene , break , and harvest , , listen to the names , the technique learned from the painters of junior impressionist , but drawn and pale with people , everyone like to imagine , the landscape for granted . That's what , 's the charm of this painter .

Van Gogh ,  roses , works of two grass , . Both , to fill the screen , the target is drawn in close applications . The composition is not a Western painting traditional . Van Gogh , I wonder if had seen the works of Monet already . Alternatively, I wonder if the reference to a picture of Japan .

Work called wave of Gustave Courbet . Dim clouds bring ~ to the stretch , seaside of weather that seems to get off the rain at any moment . Big wave has lashed the shore .

Literally , the primary concern of this picture , wave . Landscape painting of Courbet , not drawing a mere landscape . It is also like a symbol of something , it is also seems portrays , a mystery that has natural .

Rose three of Henri Eugene Le Shidaneru . On the table , bench unattended outdoor , rose three . People are not drawn , but until just now , I feel that there were people there . Work unique view of the world of Shidaneru have clearly shown .

Sea of Brittany of Odilon Redon . Landscape of sea totally different sea painters other is drawing . As tells us something , the sky , wrapped in orange . From the Void , a mysterious creature is likely to have Umarede , I'm full of atmosphere Dangerous anything .

Indeed , even about the work of Monet , who had been written would be good .

Water lily drawn in 1907 . On the surface of the pond was drawn in green off-white , water lily flower of grass is floating . And say Monet , image of painter of the 19th century is strong , but he had been active until the beginning of the 20th century . Monet is also a painter of the 20th century .

The water lilies of Monet this , I think it's appropriate work to be called modern art .

By the time I left the venue , day had fallen already .

Again, the name of the exhibition , what was in another name was good .