Ferdinand Hodler, Towards Rhythmic Images (The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)

(Translated by Google Translate)

That was held 40 years in Japan, Swiss painter, Ferdinand Hodler retrospective. The venue, the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno.

Words of Hodler is, had been listed in the venue, in this word, art core of Hodler is, it seems to have been Itsukusa.

"Work of art, will disclose a new order inherent in things."

Representative works of Hodler is, but portraits and landscapes.

In the portrait, a plurality of side-by-side human, as like dance dance, takes a similar poses, and is drawn into a single order.

Such work is drawn to Japan of folding screen picture, Kyoto and Kabuki view along the Kamo River, reminiscent of the figure of the dance of Toyokuni Festival.

In the no motion paintings, mysterious rhythm is born, in the viewer's mind, the rhythm like begins to move quietly, it is attacked by indescribable illusion.

Landscape is, there are many things that drew a landscape of lakes and mountains.

Straight horizontal line, ridge that surrounds the mountain lake.

Is the depicted there, certainly but Lake Geneva and the Jungfrau mountain of real, Behind, universal something more is, it seems to have been hidden.

That's what, the where Hodler say, might be a "new order inherent in things".

Man who had been obsessed with the charm of painting of Hodler is, from that time, his view that see this world, that had all changed, must immediately notice.