japan

Art Break with Curator Mai Yamaguchi on 8.6.21

Here is a link to the recording of our Art Break with Curator Mai Yamaguchi, focused on the Meiji Period.

Art Break Meiji Period Japan 08.06.21

Also, for a question asked during the art break, your colleague Kay Miller found an answer:

How long did internal national expositions in Japan last?

“The Second one, featured on the print that Mai showed, lasted for four months – March 1, 1881 – June 30, 1881.”

Here is a PDF of Mai’s presentation:

Meiji Looking Back, Looking Forward

Yoshitoshi exhibition

Here are the labels from the current Cargill exhibition, Yoshitoshi: Master Draftsman Transformed:

Yoshitoshi part 1

Yoshitoshi prt 2

Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo

From the curatorial department, here are training materials for the new exhibition “Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo,” up from December 14, 2019 – December 6, 2020 in Gallery 226, 227, 237.

Docent Training_Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo, Rotation 1, Dec. 2020

From the artsmia website:

“Originally a painter trained in oil, Hagiwara Hideo (1913–2007) became ill with tuberculosis and turned to printmaking in 1954. From the start his prints were of an abstract nature, and for 50 years he was a constant innovator in his choice of motifs, style, and technique. This first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Hagiwara’s work showcases his enormous versatility. More than 30 prints span his early work of the 1950s to the Greek Mythology series in 1965, and from his celebrated series of novel views of Mount Fuji in the 1980s and 1990s to his enormously laborious prints of the Face, Memory, and Mandala series.

This exhibition will be presented in two rotations: Rotation 1: December 14, 2019 – June 21, 2020. Rotation 2: June 27, 2020 – December 6, 2020.”