Todays Exhibition: Uemura Shoen
Currently showing in The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (東京国立近代美術館) is the exhibition of works from Uemura Shoen (上村松園), link to wikipedia english and japanese. An amazing painter who lived during the radical chanage from old Japan to the after war Japan.
Her paintings have an amazing calming style, very much in the old traditional japanese art. Each and everyone of her paintings is more amazing than the other. You can spend half an hour in front of one painting and you still not finished admiring the fine detail of her art style.
Just to see the amazing way of how she painted the hair style of her characters is more than amazing. To use matte black paint and strokes of glossy black paint to give the whole hair a three dimensional design is just amazing.
The amazing detail of the clothes and hair accessories is just another part. Another detail where you can get lost. To see her use of different shades of white on parts of the Kimono is just amazing.
Last but not least the small details in each of the paintings, possibly the most visible in the painting Looking up the Rainbow, where faint rainbow is visible in the top left corner that can be easily overlooked when you just concentrate on the two main characters in the center and left part of the painting.
Looking up the Rainbow, postcard
The show runs until 17th of October, holiday is every Monday except the 11th of October 2010.
