Image: Artizon Museum, Tokyo
The exhibition ‘Étrangers’ is scheduled to open on October 24, introducing a presentation whose stated subject is the European-period work of Japanese artists.
More than 100 European-period works are scheduled to be exhibited, establishing the scale of the presentation without specifying an exact total.
The artists named in connection with the exhibition are Kuroda Seiki, Fujishima Takeji, Yasui Sotaro and Foujita Tsuguharu, alongside others indicated by the announcement’s wording.
Through these European-period works, the exhibition is presented as a way of examining the appeal of Japanese Western-style painting, with that appeal read through the works produced during Japanese artists’ studies in Europe.
