"Modern Kyoto Art Circle and Western Culture - Revolutionaried in Nihonga"
1999-08-06 until 1999-09-12
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Kyoto, , JP Japan

Nihonga has been searching for a way to be a form of modern painting since the Meiji period through contact with Western art and the friction which was caused thereafter. It took the direction of Westernization and it was also a mark of experiment to solve the issues of materials, techniques, form and individualism. The exhibition tries to verify such experiments that the Kyoto art circle had undertaken in the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods, focusing on avant-garde paintings.

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