Hiroshima Museum of Art
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The Hiroshima Museum of Art (ひろしま美術館) is an art museum founded in 1978. It is located in the Hiroshima Central Park in Hiroshima City
, Japan.
34.3986682°N 132.4580598°W
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
, Japan.
Gallery 1
- From Romanticism to Impressionism
works artist L'Arabe au tombeau, Soldat à l'épée Eugène Delacroix Eugène DelacroixFerdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...Le moissonneur, Le ramasseur des fagots, soleil couchant Jean-François Millet Jean-François MilletJean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France...Les baigneuses des Ile Borromées, Paysanne assise dans la verdure, tenant une guirlande de fleurs Camille Corot Quai de l'Hôtel de ville et le marché aux pommes Stanislas Lépine Stanislas LépineStanislas Victor Edouard Lépine was a French painter who specialized in landscapes, especially views of the Seine.Lépine was born in Caen...Combat de cerfs dans la neige Gustave Courbet Gustave CourbetJean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...La femme au soulier rose (Berthe Morisot), Femme au chapeau à plume grise Édouard Manet Édouard ManetÉdouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....La promenade à cheval, La femme au tub, Danseuse en robe rouge Edgar Degas Edgar DegasEdgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...Paysage à Bordeaux Eugène Boudin Eugène BoudinEugène Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores...Paysage Hollande, Matinée sur la Seine(Bras de la Seine Près de Giverny) Claude Monet Claude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...St. Mammès Alfred Sisley Alfred SisleyAlfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life, in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air...Place de la Trinité (Paris), Le bras vif a Croissy (Seine-et-Oise), Judgement de Pâris, Femme au chapeau de paille, Vénus à la pomme Auguste Renoir Baigneuses (Étude), Le Pont Neuf Camille Pissarro Camille PissarroCamille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
Gallery 2
- Neo-Impressionists and Post-Impressionists
L'arbre tordu, Paysan assis Paul Cézanne Paul CézannePaul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...Le jardin de Daubigny Vincent van Gogh Vincent van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...Jeunes Bretons au bain (La baignade au moulin du Bois) Paul Gauguin Paul GauguinEugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...Vers le bourg Georges Seurat Portrieux, Gouverlo, Paris, Le Pont-Neuf Paul Signac Paul SignacPaul Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style.-Biography:Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863...Le refrain de la chaise Louis XIII au cabaret d'Aristide Bruant, Aristide Bruant Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern...Pégase, cheval sur le rocher, Les fleurs dans un vase bleu Odilon Redon Odilon RedonBertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.-Life:...Nature morte Pierre Laprade Mlle. Meissner Edvard Munch Edvard MunchEdvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...Vue des fortifications Henri Rousseau Henri RousseauHenri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier , a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector...Personages André Bauchant André BauchantAndré Bauchant was a French 'naïve' painter whose compositions were often informed by mythology and Classical History. He originally worked as a market gardener, after his father, before serving in World War I. He later trained as a mapmaker before deciding on a career as an artist.Bauchant was...Le pavillon Henri Le Sidaner Henri Le SidanerHenri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner was an Intimist painter born to a French family in Port Louis, Mauritius. In 1870 he and his family settled in Dunkirk...Place Pigalle Place PigalleThe Place Pigalle is a public square located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, between the Boulevard de Clichy and the Boulevard de Rochechouart, near Sacré-Cœur, at the foot of the Montmartre hill...
, Jeune fille au corsage blanc (Mlle. Leïla Claude Anet)Pierre Bonnard Pierre BonnardPierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of Les Nabis.-Biography:...Nu debout dans l'atelier Edouard Vuillard Édouard VuillardJean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.-Early years and education:...Idole à la perle Paul Gauguin Paul GauguinEugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...Vue de St. Tropez André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Gallery 3
- Fauvism and Picasso
La France, Jeune fille en vert dans intérieur rouge Henri Matisse Henri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...Panorama, Paysage de Provence, Nu dans un paysage, Femme blonde dans un paysage André Derain André DerainAndré Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.-Early years:...Vase de fleurs, Paysage dans la neige, Paysage avec arbres Maurice de Vlaminck Maurice de VlaminckMaurice de Vlaminck was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense color.-Life:Maurice de Vlaminck was born in Paris to a family...Le Pont Neuf et la Samaritaine Albert Marquet Albert MarquetAlbert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.-Life and work:Marquet was born in 1875 at Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, where he met Henri Matisse. They were roommates for a time, and they influenced each other's work...Pierrot, Les deux frères, pierrot et clown Georges Rouault Georges RouaultGeorges Henri Rouault[p] was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching.-Childhood and education:Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family...Epsom, le défilé de Derby Raoul Dufy Raoul DufyRaoul Dufy[p] was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events...Can Can, Deux femmes au bar, Buste de femme (Fernande), Quatre baigneuses, Maternité, Paul, fils de l'artiste, à deux ans, avec son agneau, Femme aux mains jointes, Buste de femme Pablo Picasso Pablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...Compotier et fruits Georges Braque Georges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...La danse - 1er état Fernand Léger Fernand LégerJoseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style...Danseuse tennant son pied droit avec sa main droite Edgar Degas Edgar DegasEdgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...
Gallery 4
- Ecole de Paris
Portrait de jeune fille à la blouse bleue, Portrait de homme, Tête Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo ModiglianiAmedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form...La femme à la chaise, Nature morte au pot blanc et au hareng Chaïm Soutine Chaim SoutineChaïm Soutine was a Jewish painter from Belarus. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris....Esquisse pour "La Maison meublée", Deux femmes et une biche, Femme au bouquet de fleurs Marie Laurencin Marie LaurencinMarie Laurencin was a French painter and printmaker. -Biography:Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres...Rue à Montmorency, La Cathédrale Saint-Pierre à Angoulême (Charente) Maurice Utrillo Maurice UtrilloMaurice Utrillo, , born Maurice Valadon, was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there....La Roumaine, Fleurs Moise Kisling Moise KislingMoise Kisling was a Polish painter.Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was encouraged to travel to the center for artistic creativity in the early 20th century, Paris, France.In 1910, Kisling moved to Montmartre and a few years later to...Princesse Ghika, La dame en vert Jules Pascin Nu allongé au chat, Annonciation, Adoration des Rois Mages, Descente de croix, Asissi, Femme de profil Léonard Foujita Tsuguharu Foujitawas a painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings.- Education :In 1910 when he was twenty-four years old Foujita graduated from what is now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music....Vue de Vitebsk, L'Inspiration, Ma grande mère, Les amoureux au bouquet, Près de la rivière Marc Chagall Marc ChagallMarc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...Vue de Venise, Le couple Kees Van Dongen Kees van DongenCornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen , usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits....
Gallery 5-8
- Modern Japanese Paintings of Western-Style
peonies Shotaro Koyama Farmers returning to home Chu Asai Lamp and two children, European woman in white dress Seiki Kuroda Six themes about the music, Nude and peach blossoms, Sunrise, Raging billows at Daio-misaki Promontory Takeji Fujishima Nude, Nude by the pond Saburosuke Okada Departing spring Sigeru Aoki Girl Shintaro Yamashita Villa Gournay in the suburbs of Paris, The tethered horse Hanjiro Sakamoto Girl playing the piano, Morning in the village of highlands Kunzo Minami Coal heavers in Soshu, China, Kasube and Fugu, Oishida in February Heizo Kanayama Still life with a globe, Self-portrait with a hat Narashige Koide Narashige Koidewas a Japanese painter and illustrator, noted for his work in pioneering the Hanshinkan Modernism trend in yōga portraiture and nude painting in early 20th century Japanese painting.-Biography:...Nude, Karuizawa in autumn Ryuzaburo Umehara Studio Soutaro Yasui The waterworks in a spring day, Terukoin Chinese dress, portrait of the artist's younger sister Ryusei Kishida Ryusei Kishidawas a Japanese painter in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. He is best known for his realistic yōga-style portraiture, but also for his nihonga paintings in the 1920s.-Biography:...Mt. Hiei Kunitaro Suda Landscape Harue Koga Harue Kogawas a Japanese surrealist/avant-garde painter active in the Taishō period.-His life:His real name is Yoshio. He entered the priesthood and was renamed "Ryosho Koga"; "Harue" is an alias. He was born as the eldest son of the priest of a buddhist temple, Zenfukuji...Red cap Kanji Maeta Reclining Nude, ‘’Nude Takeshi Hayashi Location de Voiture, Landscape, Nude(reverse) Yuzo Saeki Yuzo Saekiwas a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing modernism and Fauvist Expressionism within the yōga art movement in early twentieth-century Japanese painting.-Biography:...A corner of the poor cafe Makoto Saburi Snows Shikanosuke Oka Shallows Noriyuki Ushijima A landscape of Venice Takanori Ogisu Portrait of a woman in the room, Dancer, Roses Ryohei Koiso A flock of birds (Dead trees) Kinosuke Ebihara Melons, Roses Morikazu Kumagai Tsuwano (Shimane prefecture) Yasuo Kazuki A drunk of my village, Wall, Singing toward the moon, Drunkards in my village, Church, Etude B, White Woman Rey Kamoi
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