Image: Kurume City Art Museum
Kurume City Art Museum will hold a free art lecture on July 18 focused on the background of Fauvism, with particular attention to André Marquet and Henri Matisse. The talk, titled 'Maruketto to Matissu: Fōvissum no Haikei' in the museum’s Japanese announcement, is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in the museum’s first-floor multipurpose room.
The lecture is being organised as part of the museum’s public programming and is open to attendees free of charge. According to the announcement, admission will be accepted on the day of the event on a first-come, first-served basis, with doors opening at 1:30 p.m. Capacity is limited to 50 people.
The speaker will be Namiko Sasaki, who serves as chief curator in the curatorial department at Kurume City Art Museum. The museum’s notice identifies her by name and position, underscoring the in-house scholarly context of the programme.
Fauvism, the early 20th-century avant-garde movement associated with vivid colour and expressive brushwork, has remained a major point of reference in modern art history. By framing the lecture around Marquet and Matisse, the museum signals a focus on the movement’s background rather than on a single artist or work, though the announcement does not specify further details of the lecture content.
Kurume City Art Museum, based in Kurume, Japan, regularly uses its public-facing channels to announce talks and related educational events. In this case, the institution’s post presents the lecture as an accessible opportunity for audiences to engage with art historical scholarship in a small-group format.
The museum’s announcement gives only the essential event information: 'Maruketto to Matissu: Fōvissum no Haikei' on July 18 at 2 p.m., in the first-floor multipurpose room, with 50 places available and no participation fee.
