TANAKA Akio
On 25 May 2018 I went to Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Ueno, Tokyo to see the exhibition titled French Landscape Paintings from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
I have frequently see the modern French paintings represented by the Post-impressionists at National Western Art Museum,Ueno. But the impression after seeing was pretty different.
The paintings are ranged widely from the 17th to 20th century.
I felt that the The Russian eyes were effected to collect the paintings. For example, Arcadia and the relevant concepts of it were not so popular in Japan but at Russian collectors payed enough attention to them like the Europeans.
One of the most fantastic works for me was Luigi Loir's Smoke on the Paris Circuit Line ( Paris Suburb). Floating smoke, Cloudy sky, Two horses and people chatting or coming and going.
At the moment to see the painting I recalled the famous quotation, Vita brevis, ars longa.
The painting was drew in 1885, over 130 years ago. But all the landscapes were vivid like the present and probably in future.
Tokyo
27 May 2018
Sekinan Zoho
The catalogue of the exhibition
French Landscape Paintings from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
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