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2012

From Renaissance to Rococo. 　Four Centuries of European Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Lectures (presented in Japanese only)

Saturday 14 July 14:00 to 15:30 Akihiro Ozaki (Professor, Tohoku University): "The Paradox of Dutch Painting: Focusing on Rembrandt and Vermeer"
Saturday 25 August 14:00 to 15:30 Yasunori Ishizawa（Associate Professor, Yamagata University）: "Art in the City: Sacred Paintings and Portrait Expression in Renaissance Italy"
Saturday 8 September 14:00 to 15:30 Mitsumasa Takanashi (Curator, The National Museum of Western Art): "The Fascination of Italian Drawing: Methods and Aims"

Hubert Robert - Les jardins du Temps

Lectures

Tuesday 6 March 14:00 – 15:30 Hélène Stanislas-Moulin (Director, Valence Museum): "Hubert Robert and the Valence Museum's collection"(In French, with simultaneous interpretation)
Saturday 31 March 14:00 – 15:30 Fumio Nagami (Professor, Chuo University): "Nature and the Garden in Rousseau: An Aid to Appreciating Hubert Robert"
Saturday 28 April 2012, 14:00 – 15:30: "Hubert Robert: Between Reminiscences and Caprices"
Megumi Jingaoka (Curator, National Museum of Western Art)

International Symposium
Hubert Robert – Les jardins du Temps
Aesthetics and the Uses of Time

Date：: Saturday 14 April 2012 10:00-18:00 National Museum of Western Art
Sunday 15 April 2012 14:00 - 18:30 L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo
Place：: Auditorium, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (B2 Floor)
Organized by：: The National Museum of Western Art／L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo
With support of：: Ambassade de France au Japon／The Kajima Foundation for the Arts／Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris／The Western Art Foundation／Laurent-Perrier／Café Le Bretagne

Overview

This symposium has been planned in conjunction with the exhibition Hubert Robert – Les jardins du Temps. To be held over two days, across shifting venues, this symposium will bring together French and Japanese scholars, artists and architects for a multifaceted discussion of the uses of time in consciousness and artifacts, and the aesthetics surrounding such usage. Time robs us of life and eventually crumbles physical form. Simultaneously, value is born from time – the cycle of birth and rebirth, the formation of history, and the ongoing creation of tradition.
The first day of the symposium will look at the "uses of time" from an historical stance, deciphering the successive waning and waxing of aesthetic models from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. The second day will focus on the 20th century to the present, considering the theme of the aesthetics and vestiges of time in terms of the images that stretch across such media as photography, architecture, and film. French and Japanese architects at the cutting edge of their field have been also invited to hold a discussion on the theme of architecture and nature.

Program Topics

Saturday 14 April 2012,10:00-18:00
* With French and Japanese simultaneous interpretation

First Section: Keynote Address: The Use of Time
Keynote Presenter: Shuji Takashina (Director, Ohara Museum of Art)

Session 1: The Past as History
Presenter:Shigetoshi Osano (Professor, Tokyo University), Barthélémy Jobert (Professor, Paris-Sorbonne University)

Session 2: Imitating Time
Presenter: Guillaume Faroult (Curator, Louvre Museum) ,Megumi Jingaoka (Curator, National Museum of Western Art)

Session 3: Time and Form
Presenter: Atsushi Miura (Professor, Tokyo University), Shigeki Abe (Professor, Chuo University)

General Discussion

2011

Goya: Luces y Sombras. Obras Maestras del Museo del Prado
Goya: Lights and Shadows. Masterpieces of the Museo del Prado

Lectures

Saturday 22 October 14:00 to 16:00: "The Works Displayed in Goya: Lights and Shadows"
Manuela B. Mena Marqués(Chief Curator of 18th Century Painting and Goya,
Museo Nacional del Prado)
and
José Manuel Matilla Rodríguez (Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints,
Museo Nacional del Prado)
[Lectures in Spanish, simultaneous interpretation into Japanese provided]
Saturday 26 November 14:00 to 15:30: "Goya's Time : Enlightenment, Revolution, and War"
Hirotaka Tateishi (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, The Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies)
Saturday 10 December 14:00 to 15:30: "The Painter Goya's Life Straddling Two Eras : His Art and Human Images" [Lecture in Japanese]
Yasujiro Otaka (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University)
Saturday 14 January 14:00 to 15:30: "Goya and Modern Art" [Lecture in Japanese]
Hiroya Murakami (Chief Curator, The National Museum of Western Art)

* Slide Talk also available with explanatory descriptions by Yui Toyoda, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Graduate School, Waseda University

The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece
from the British Museum

Lectures

Tuesday 5 July 14:00 to 15:30: Ian Jenkins (Senior Curator, Greek and Roman Dept., The British Museum)
"The Human Body in Greek Art and Society"
Saturday 23 July 14:00 to 15:30: Masanori Aoyagi (Director, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
"Greek Perception of Male and Female Beauty"
Saturday 3 September 14:00 to 15:30: Kyoko Haga (Professor, Tohoku University)
"Looking at Greek Sculpture: The Ancients' Gaze"

Rembrandt : The Quest for Chiaroscuro

Lectures

Saturday 2 April 2011 14:00～15:30: Hitoshi Karasawa (Print Artist)
"Light and Shadow to a Print Artist: Following Rembrandt"
Saturday 23 April 2011 14:00～15:30: Naoaki Sakamoto (Representing Shiho Nao)
"Between European Prints and Japanese Paper: Various Thoughts of a Papermaker"
Saturday 21 May 2011 14:00～15:30: Akira Kofuku (Senior Curator, NMWA)
"Rembrandt: Prints Created on Japanese Paper"

International Symposium
"Rembrandt : The Quest for Chiaroscuro"

Date：: Sunday 13 March 2011 13:00-18:00 Called off
Place：: Auditorium, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (B2 Floor)
Organized by：: The National Museum of Western Art
With support of：: The Japan Art History Society, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, The Society for International Cultural Exchange, Insatsu Choyokai Foundation
Presenter：: Martin Royalton-Kisch/Art Historian (A former curator of the British Museum)
Erik Hinterding/Art Historian (A compiler of the New Holstein Rembrandt)
Bob van den Boogert/The Rembrandt House
Akihiro Ozaki/Tohoku University
Hiroshi Kumazawa/Art Historian (A guest curator of the National Museum of Western Art Tokyo)
Akira　Kofuku　/　Senior Curator, NMWA
Ayumi Yasui / Kanazawa College of Art

* Due to the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake, the symposium was called off.
The report will be published in 2013 spring, which contains all the planned presentations in detail.

2010

Lectures

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 13:00 – 14:30: Cathy Leahy (Senior Curator, Prints and Drawings, National Gallery Victoria)
“The Dürer Collection at the National Gallery Victoria”(In English, with simultaneous interpretation)
Sunday 14 November 2010, 14:00 – 15:30: Kunioki Katsu (Professor Emeritus, Doshisha University)
“Dürer Researcher: Seiro Maekawa”
Sunday 28 November 2010, 14:00 – 15:30: Koichi Koshi (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of the Arts)
“Dürer’s Print Arts: Stylistic Development”
Sunday 12 December 2010, 14:00 – 15:30: Aika Aoyama (Associate Professor, Dokkyo University)
“Dürer’s Travel Period”
Sunday 9 January 2011, 14:00 – 15:30: Akira Akiyama (Associate Professor, Tokyo University)
“The Mechanism of Fame in Dürer’s Works”

Lectures

Saturday 24 July 14:00 – 15:30: Shinsuke Watanabe (Curator, NMWA)
“Painting in Rome and Naples during the Baroque Period”
Saturday 14 August 14:00 – 15:30: Hiromasa Kanayama (Associate Professor, Keio University)
“An Invitation to Italian Baroque Architecture”

Lectures

Tuesday 23 February 13：00－15：30: Libby Horner
“Brangwyn the Polymath”; Brian Clarkecanceled
“Brangwyn and Architectonics”
Due to a change in his plans, lecturer Brian Clark will not be traveling to Japan at this time. The lecture by Libby Horner will start at 13:00 on the 23rd and is scheduled to finish at 14:30.
Saturday 27 March 14：00－15：30: Mina Oya (Curator, NMWA)
“Brangwyn and Architectural Decoration: Towards the Kyoraku Bijutsukan Project”
Saturday 17 April 14：00－15：30: Joichiro Kawamura (Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Language and Society , Hitotsubashi University)
“From Illustrated Books to Murals: Fin de Siecle Aesthetic Living Spaces and Brangwyn”
Saturday 22 May 14：00－15：30: Tim Barringer(Professor, Yale University)
“Frank Brangwyn: Labour, Masculinity and History Painting”

2009

Saturday 10 October 14:00 – 15:30: Masanori Aoyagi (Director, NMWA)
"Augustus and the Birth of the Roman Empire"
Saturday 24 October 14:00 – 15:30: Kyoko Haga (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Tohoku University)
"Greek Art and the Romans"
Saturday 14 November 14:00 – 15:30: Norio Matsumoto (Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University)
"The Glorious Roman Empire"
Saturday 28 November 14:00 – 15:30: Mitsumasa Takanashi (Curator, NMWA)
"Painted Images of Ancient Rome: Interpreting History Paintings"

In honor of the opening of the L'eredità dell'Impero romano exhibition, specialists will gather for a symposium on the topic of "The Augustan World Strategy"

Date/Time: Saturday 19 September, 13:30 – 16:00 (doors open at 13:00)

Location: Auditorium (B2F), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Panelists:
1. Rosaria Ciardiello（Universita degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli）
2. Lucrezia Ungaro (Director, Museo dei Fori Imperiali)
3. Umberto Pappalardo（Professor, Universita Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli）
4. Masanori Aoyagi (Director, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)

To be presented in Italian and Japanese, with simultaneous interpretation between the two languages.

This lecture series will consider the NMWA Main Building and Le Corbusier himself from various angles.

Saturday 6 June 14:00 - 15:30: Yoshiyuki Yamana (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science)
"Le Corbusier's “Museum of Unlimited Extension” Concept: From the Mundanaeum to The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo"
Saturday 13 June 14:00 - 15:30: Kazuyo Sejima (Architect)
"Le Corbusier's Museums and Art Museum Architecture" canceled
Saturday 20 June 14:00 - 15:30: Hiroshi Matsukuma (Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology)
"Le Corbusier and Modern Japanese Architecture"
Saturday 27 June 14:00 - 15:30: Misa Hayashi (Curator, Galerie Taisei)
"Le Corbusier's Walls"
Saturday 4 July 14:00 - 15:30: Makoto Yokomizo (Architect)
"The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo and Ueno Park"

Lectures (in Japanese)

Saturday 18 July 14:00 – 15:30: "The Other Self and Memory”
Chihiro Minato (Professor, Tama Art University)
Saturday 25 July 14:00 – 15:30: “The Aesthetics of "Utsushi (Copying)": The myth of 'original' images”
Atsushi Tanigawa (Professor, Kokugakuin University)
Saturday 1 August 14:00 – 15:30: "The Morphology of Sentiment: Deciphering Aby Warburg's 'Mnemosyne' "
Jun Tanaka (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Tokyo University)

Lecture

Saturday 28 February 2009 14:00 – 15:30: “Revolution in a Classicist Age: For a New ‘Golden Age’”
Blaise Ducos (Curator, Painting Department, Louvre)
Saturday 7 March 2009 14:00 – 15:30: “Asian Goods that Made their Way to 17th Century Europe”
Haneda Masashi (Professor, Tokyo University)
Saturday 4 April 2009 14:00 – 15:30: “The Poet Marino and the Printmaker Brio: Various Issues Related to Poussin and his Early Works”
Kimura Saburo (Professor, Nihon University)
Saturday 25 April 2009 14:00 – 15:30: “Rome, Fatherland of the Myriad: The Role of Rome in 17th Century Arts”
Ishinabe Masumi (Professor, Seijo University)
Saturday 16 May 2009 14:00 – 15:30: The Ins and Outs of 17th Century Dutch Painting”
Kofuku Akira (Senior Curator, NMWA)

2008

Lecture

30 September 2008 (Tues) 14:00 – 15:30: "Hammershøi’s Influence on the Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer"
Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Director of the Ordrupgaard Museum, Copenhagen
4 October 2008 (Sat.) 14:00-15:30: "Hammershøi and Symbolism"
Felix Krämer, Chief Curator of the 19th Century and Classic Modern Painting and Sculpture Collection, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
22 October 2008 (Sat.) 14:00-15:30: "Nineteenth Century Denmark: As Told by the Woman in the Black Dress"
Tanabe Uta (Associate Professor, Research Institute for World Languages, Osaka University)

Lecture

June 14 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "Corot: A Musical Conception of Painting"
Vincent Pomarède (Senior Curator, Director of the Department of Paintings, Musée du Louvre)
Takahashi Akiya (Director, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo; Guest Researcher, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
*This lecture was given in French with translation into Japanese.
July 6 (Sun.) 14:00 – 15:30: "Corot and the Japanese: History of Japan’s Reception of Corot and Collection Activities in Japan"
Ide Yoichiro (Professor, Tokyo Junshin Women’s College)
July 27 (Sun.) 14:00 – 15:30: "Corot: The Embodiment of 19th Century Art"
Takahashi Akiya (Director, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo; Guest Researcher, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
August 3 (Sun.) 14:00-15:30: "The Figure Paintings by the Landscape Painter Corot"
Oki Yukiko (Instructor, Teikyo Heisei University)

Lecture

March 4 (Tues) 14:00 - 15:30: "Florence Museums Association: A Museum at the Crossroads of Tradition and the Future"
Christina Acidini (Superintendent, Florence Museums Association)
March 15 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "Reclining Nudes in Ancient Art"
Haga Kyoko (Associate Professor, Tohoku University)
April 12 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "Venus in Italian Literature and Those around Her"
Ura Shoichi (Associate Professor, Tokyo University)
April 19 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "From Olympia to Venus of Urbino: Modern Painting and Tradition"
Miura Atsushi (Professor, Tokyo University)
May 10 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "Venus as Portrayed in Renaissance Art: Focusing on Venus of Urbino"
Watanabe Shinsuke (Curator, NMWA)

International Symposium

March 29 (Sat.) 10:00-18:00 (proposed): "Erotic Art in the Renaissance: Iconography and Function "
Please click here for details on the symposium (in Japanese only).