La Bretagne, source d'inspiration: regards de peintres français et japonais

Abstract

"Brittany attracted the attention of artists from the Romantic period onward who were looking for new pictorial themes and subjects. Since those early discoveries, painters from all schools and regions have taken up Brittany as their subject. By the late nineteenth century, the region saw the birth of such painting groups as the Pont-Aven school, centered on Paul Gauguin, and the Nabis. This exhibition focuses on the many painters who were beguiled by Brittany during the latter half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. With works that focus on Brittany's landscapes, customs, and history, what each artist sought and discerned in this 'foreign realm' is explored. In addition to featuring Western artists, primarily French, the exhibition for the first time brings to light works by Japanese-born painters who traveled to France during Japan's late Meiji to Taisho periods and found their way to Brittany. With around thirty Japanese museums and private collections and two overseas museums making works available on loan, the exhibition assembles 160 or so pieces encompassing paintings, drawings, prints, and posters, literary works, guidebooks, picture postcards sent by artists, and even the trunks they used to carry their possessions when traveling to Brittany."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction / Hakamata Hiroyo -- Brittany, Land of Painters / André Cariou -- Place and Body: Revisiting Monet on Belle-Île / Yamamasu Aoi -- Brittany through the Inner Eye of Maurice Denis / Hakamata Hiroyo -- Japanese Painters and Brittany / Yanagisawa Hideyuki -- Topic 1, Literary Brittany / Oba Shinzue -- Topic 2, Paul Gauguin and Brittany: A Transverse Study of Japanese Art Museum Collections / Koizumi Masaya -- Topic 3, The Matsukata Collection and Brittany / Jingaoka Megumi -- Japanese Artists Who Depicted Brittany / compiled by Takemoto Mei.