How much did the West influence Japanese art? An exhibition at the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin, Italy.

Japan will be featured in an exhibition in Turin, Italy, at Pinacoteca Agnelli, from October 19, 2019 to February 16, 2020. Curated by Rossella Menegazzo and Sara Thompson and organized by Pinacoteca Agnelli in collaboration with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the major exhibition entitled Hokusai Hiroshige Hasui. Journey to a Changing Japan will present the works of two great masters of the Floating World: Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige. These will be accompanied by modern prints by Kawase Hasui, a painter who was an exponent of the shin hanga (i.e., new prints) movement, which carried on the themes and techniques of polychrome woodcuts even into the Meiji (1868-1912), Taisho (1912-1926) and part of the Showa eras, until the mid-1950s when he was named a Living National Treasure in 1956.

Visitors will be able to admire a selection of one hundred woodcuts that will tell the story of how, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Japanese art world underwent anenormous transformation under the influence of the West.

For the first time, the twentieth century will be set against the most significant works of traditional Japanese painting.

Image: Hokusai, The Great Wave of Kanagawa, from the collection Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.

How much did the West influence Japanese art? An exhibition at the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin, Italy.

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