News Release
ATZ221207_E_E

December 7, 2022
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Delighting in Art ―Seeing, Feeling, Learning
February 25 [Sat.] - May 14 [Sun.], 2023

Berthe MORISOT, Woman and Child on the Balcony, 1872

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi), presents Delighting in Art―Seeing, Feeling, Learning.
The Artizon Museum has offered, through its Learning Programs, a variety of activities to enablepeople to become more familiar with works of art. This exhibition builds on the results of thoseprograms to offer diverse ways of displaying groups of works selected from our collection. Itconsists of three sections:
One Portrait at a Time―Try Becoming a Person in a Painting or Sculpture
Traveling into Landscapes―Experiencing Scenery
The Impressionists’ Everyday Spaces―Let’s Go See Paris, a Modern Metropolis
Take your time appreciating these works, sense their worlds to the full, and gain a deeper
knowledge of them. Delight in art!
A variety of related Learning Programs are also scheduled during the exhibition period.
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Section1: One Portrait at a Time―Try Becoming a Person in a Painting or Sculpture
An artist’s self-portrait is a special subject, incorporating both the artist’s own gaze at
himself or herself and a direct connection to the works those hands created. Imagine
yourself creating a self-portrait: you organize the interior that will be your setting, choose
the clothing to wear, adopt a pose, stare at yourself in a mirror, sort out the equipment youneed, and pick up your brush. Then, having completed the work, you exhibit it. Let yourimagination go wild experiencing the various processes the artist uses, the selfexamination, the aspirations behind the self portrait.
Not a self-portrait but a portrait of another, specific, human being, whether painting orsculpture, is created through an exceptional period of time shared by the artist and themodel, focused on the artist’s creative work. The encounter between artist and model, theirrelationship, the model’s true humanity: we, appreciating the portrait, can discover a hostof distinctive features in the work of art before our eyes, and talk about them.
This section introduces superb portraits from our collection. They include works byRembrandt, a seventeenth-century Dutch painter who created many self-portraits, SelfPortrait by Édouard Manet, a nineteenth-century French painter known as a master ofportraiture, Saltimbanque Seated with Arms Crossed, in which Pablo Picasso addressed once
again the theme of the itinerant circus performer or saltimbanque that he painted
repeatedly throughout his life, and M’s Gift of the Sea, by the contemporary artist Morimura
Yasumasa, a work inspired by Aoki Shigeru’s A Gift of the Sea. As you view them, let
yourself enjoy the sense of turning into each of the persons portrayed, experiencing being
each of these persons.

from left:
Édouard MANET, Self-Portrait, 1878-79
Henri MATISSE, Woman with Blue Bodice, 1935
Pablo PICASSO, Saltimbanque Seated with Arms
Crossed, 1923 ©2022 ‒Succession Pablo
Picasso- BCF (JAPAN)

Section2: Traveling into Landscapes―Experiencing Scenery
In this section, landscape paintings are displayed in two groups: paintings of nature and ofurban areas. Landscape paintings depict natural scenery and cityscapes. Capturing thechanging seasons and the weather combined with scenes of natural settings or the built
environments of the city and its structures, fascinate viewers. Landscapes are always afamiliar part of our lives. Looking at the landscape, sensing something, deepening
thoughts, revering and fearing scenes beyond human powers―those are actions andreactions experienced eternally.
The landscape is one of the most important subjects in painting. Through landscapepaintings, artists, each in his or her individual style, communicate the period they aredepicting, natural views of society, and their recognition of space. In the history of painting2/4

in the West, the landscape reached a peak in nineteenth-century France. Spurred by thedevelopment of the railways and the invention of the paint tube, painters actively sought towork out of doors and depicted many scenes that were familiar parts of their lives.
One of the delights of the landscape painting is its power to draw the viewer into thescene unfolding in the painting. With Claude Monet’s Twilight, Venice and Kishida Ryusei’sView of Ginza Street, our imaginations go work as we view them, as if we had actually
travelled there and were strolling in those landscapes. The world within the picture plane
expands further. In this section, which suggests key works for appreciation focusing on theseason and the senses, and introduces information about each place and related materials,
we invite the viewer to a journey to experience the scenes depicted in these paintings.

from left:
Claude MONET, Twilight, Venice, c.1908
KISHIDA Ryusei, View of Ginza Street, c.1911

Section3: The Impressionists’ Everyday Spaces―Let’s Go See Paris, a Modern Metropolis
Paris, nearing the final quarter of the nineteenth century: France had, since the revolution
near the end of the previous century, gone through rapid changes as it drove
modernization forward. In that period, a group of painters who aspired to create paintings
that suited France’s new age engaged in developing new techniques; the result, throughavoiding mixing colors, shifting to placing small dots of primary colors and lining up
complementary colors, so that they mix on the viewer’s retina, was the creation of a new
method through which the colors maintain their visual brightness and vividness.
These artists painted landscapes in the outskirts of Paris, en plein air and also gazedintently on the lives of their contemporaries, the environment, and their manners andcustoms, making scenes in the streets of Paris their subject. Swiftly changing, modernizing
Paris was, along with natural landscapes, a favorite subject for them to capture on theircanvases. This section focuses on the Impressionists, painters who lived in that new age
and filled their works with a sense of their age and their social context. The central focus isYoung Man Playing the Piano (1876) by Gustave Caillebotte, who painted his younger
brother, Martial, playing the piano in the Caillebotte residence on rue de Miromesnil, inParis, and Berthe Morisot’s Woman and Child on the Balcony (1872), depicting a mother andchild gazing at the sights of Paris from the balcony of her residence on Rue BenjaminFranklin in Paris. We hope that you will experience the social and cultural landscapes they
depicted.

from left:
Berthe MORISOT, Woman andChild on the Balcony, 1872
Gustave CAILLEBOTTE,
Young Man Playing the Piano, 1876

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Exhibition Overview
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Delighting in Art ―Seeing, Feeling, Learning
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Artizon Museum, 5F Gallery
February 25 [Sat.] - May 14 [Sun.], 2023
10:00 - 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays except May 5)*Last entry 30 minutes before closing.
MondaysTimed entry system(Online booking starts from December 23, 2022)
Online ticket: 1,200 yen
Same day ticket (on sale at museum): 1,500 yen
Students: Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*Same day tickets on sale at the museum are available only for time slotsthat have not reached full capacity.
*Advance booking is not required for children up to junior high schoolage.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibitions.

*The exhibition details are subject to change without notice.
Curators:

SHIMBATA Yasuhide, HOSOYA Kaori, ETO Yuko

Concurrent exhibitions:Japan Pavilion Exhibition in Tokyo ―From the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale diVenezia Dumb Type, 2022: remap （6F Gallery）
Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section Artists’ Letters（4F Gallery）
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