Image: Adachi Museum of Art, Tokyo
The Adachi Museum of Art has announced the upcoming exhibition ‘Samurai—Seven Artists Who Challenged Innovation in Japanese Painting’, opening on August 31. The presentation will feature works by seven major figures represented in the museum’s modern Japanese painting collection.
The artists named in the announcement are Yokoyama Taikan, Takeuchi Seiho, Kawai Gyokudo, Hishida Shunso, Hashimoto Kansetsu, Kawabata Ryushi and Ito Shinsui. Together, they represent a range of approaches to the development of modern nihonga, the Japanese painting tradition identified in the exhibition title and announcement.
According to the museum, the seven artists are being presented for their sustained efforts to pursue new forms of expression in Japanese painting. The exhibition’s title invokes the image of the samurai as a metaphor for artists who continued to challenge established modes of practice.
The announcement describes the selected works as drawn from the Adachi Museum of Art’s modern Japanese painting collection and identifies the seven painters as representative artists within it. No individual works, exhibition sections or curatorial themes beyond the focus on innovation were specified.
The exhibition is scheduled to begin on August 31. The announcement provided no closing date or further details about accompanying programmes.
