Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Ohara Art Museum
If I remember correctly The museum's lighting was not warm like the galleries of NZ. I was so overwhelmed to see many famous artists' work. One example was "Waterlilies" by Claude MONET. I spent about 10 minutes at each those artists' works. If I had known more artists, I wouldn't be able to finish looking at the pictures in one day. But my knowledge of art was limited so the whole going around only took an hour or so. These Images were obtained from the official website of Ohara musium.
Ohara Art Museum in Japan
Last year I went to Japan and travelled to the very west side of japan. The Ohara museum is located in the Okayama prefecture.
The Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French painting and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings of the Italian Renaissance and of the Dutch and Flemish 17th century. Well-known American and Italian artists of the 20th century are also included in the collection.
The basis of the collection was formed by Ōhara Magosaburō on the advice of the Japanese painter Kojima Torajirō (1881-1929) and the French artist Edmond-François Aman-Jean (1860-1935).
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%94hara_Art_Museum
The photo of the museum was obtained also from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurashiki_Ohara_Art_Museum02nt3200.jpg
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