EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum’s collection of Western paintings represents a comprehensive array of works drawn from the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century to modern 20th-century pieces. Traditionally, painters in the West were drawn to and inspired by such transcendent motifs as mythology or religion. Over the course of some 400 years, however, their focus would evolve dramatically, transitioning to novel painting concepts and groundbreaking styles and techniques. This exhibition features some 80 select works from both polarities—from Monet, Renoir, Gogh and Chagall of the “modernist” school, to such “Old Masters” as Tintoretto, van Dyck and Claude Lorrain—for a hearty viewing of the brilliance, ascendancy and evolution of Western painting over four centuries.