"Stories Surrounding Trees," an exhibition exploring the development of French landscape painting, is running until June 26th at the Togo Seiji Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The exhibition traces the role that the motif of trees has played in the development of modern French landscape painting, from Romanticism to the Barbizon School, Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and the Fauves.
Under the supervision of Christophe Duvivier, director of the Camille Pissarro Museum in Pontoise, near Paris, France, the exhibition features approximately 110 works, primarily oil paintings, that capture the artists' passion for nature and trees, drawn from museums and private collections both in France and abroad. The exhibition will feature works by leading Barbizon School artists such as Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny, as well as works by leading Impressionist artists Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet, and Gustave Caillebotte, who served as a patron to Impressionist painters.
In addition, in contrast to Impressionism, which sought to capture the ever-changing natural light and atmospheric movements as they are, the exhibition will feature works by Nabi artists Félix Vallotton and Maurice Denis, who viewed each of the elements that make up a painting, such as color and form, as independent entities, and Othon Friesz, a painter known as a "Fauve" who focused on the effects and function of color itself.
【Event Information】
French Landscapes "Stories Around Trees" - From Corot to Monet, Pissarro, and Matisse -
Venue: Togo Seiji Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art
Address: 42F Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Building, 1-26-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Dates: April 16th to June 26th
Hours: 10:00-18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays, last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Admission: 1,200 yen for adults, 800 yen for university and high school students, 1,000 yen for those 65 and over, free for junior high school students and younger (proof of age required)
Closed: Mondays
