10 May 2010

Art ehibition of Tohaku Hasegawa



I went to the art exhibition of "Thohaku Hasegawa" at kyoto national museum in Kyoto.
This year marks the 400th memorial of Hasegawa Tohaku.
He is one of the greatest painters in Japan.
He was born in Nanao city in Ishikawa prefecture.
Tohaku began his career painting Buddist works.
In his thirties, he moved to the then-capital of Kyoto and expanded his works to include portraits, landscapes, and birds and flowers. He used his technique of painting, whilee at other times wielding a bold brush.

Later, he received commisions from the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi and tea master Sen no rikyu.
They orderd Tohaku to paint significant works.
They made him a famous painter.
His famous painting titled "famous painter.
His famous painting titled "Pine Trees" was so great.
"Pine Trees"was painted by using only Japanese black ink.
He represented fog laiden pine trees in a woody foreset, using only black ink. I felt like I was in the quiet deep foggy forest.
I found he was a great painter.



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6 May 2010

The electone ( keybord) players' concert

I went to a live concert of 6 top electone players.
 An electone is the name of musical instrument.
It is kind of like an electronic organ.
The theme of the concert was "love"; love for family, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, animals, nature, country and so on.
Each player composed music about love and played them.
It was such beautiful and heart warming music and they made me happy.
 An African-American woman singer joined the electone player's music; she had a powerful singing voice.
I thought music has the great ability to make us cheer up.
They played and sung "We are the world" with the audiendce for the last song of the concert.
I enjoyed  the concert and I had a wonderful night.

4 May 2010

Art exhibition of Setsuko Migishi

I went to see the art exhibition of Setsuko Migishi. Her works come with a description of a free-wheeling, footloose life.

Setsuko married Kotaro Migishi who was an artistic genius. At the beginning they stimulated each other, but Setsuko was sinking because of Kotaro's strong character. He lives by instinct and is selfish. Setsuko and Kotaro lived a stormy life, so she tried to kill herself... At that time, Kotaro died sudenly. After Kotaro had gone, Setsuko decided to live as an artist. She painted pictures when she was 94 years old.This exhibition was about her life journey of mind through her artworks.
From her diary, she stuggled with herself through her art. She thought about herself. Why did she paint pictures? Did she sometimes lose herself, because of her life as an artist? For an occupation? For finding beauty through painting?For the deadline of the next exhibition ? For an art dealer?
There are a lot of arists who are struggling. Despite their difficulties ,why do they paint pictures?
From her diary, she said when she found her picture, she finished a work of art.

She died at 94 years old. Her last work was a picture of yellow coloured flowers. Yellow coloured flowers represented her husband, Kotaro.

















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