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The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, lit. "National Western Art Museum", NMWA) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016. [1]
Kōjirō Matsukata (松方 幸次郎, Matsukata Kōjirō, January 17, 1865 – June 24, 1950) was a Japanese businessman who, in parallel to his professional activities, devoted his life and fortune to amassing a collection of Western art which, he hoped, would become the nucleus of a Japanese national museum focused particularly on masterworks of the Western art tradition.
This is an incomplete list of artists represented in the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The museum was the first Japanese museum devoted to Western art. By 1945, there were 150 museums in Japan. However, the Great Kantō earthquake (1923), the Sino-Japanese war, and World War II, led to the stagnation of Japan's museum activities. Japanese art objects had been collected in the Shōsōin (treasure houses) of shrines and temples ...
The Museum of Western Art may refer to: The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan; The Museum of Western Art (Kerrville, Texas) in Kerrville, Texas, United States; The Leanin' Tree Museum of Western Art in Boulder, Colorado, United States; the Museum of Western and Oriental Art in Kiev, Ukraine
Visage Painting and the Human Face in 20th Century Art was a major international overview of painting and the face held in 2000 at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo and at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, curated by National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. It included works by:
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1959, designed by Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier's only building in Japan is the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. Le Corbusier's three Japanese apprentices: Kunio Maekawa, Junzo Sakakura and Yoshizaka were responsible for executing the plans and supervising the construction. [6]
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1959 Le Corbusier's only building in Japan is the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. Le Corbusier's three Japanese apprentices: Kunio Maekawa , Junzo Sakakura and Takamasa Yoshizaka were responsible for executing the plans and supervising the construction. [ 15 ]