500 Years of Western Paintings — Collections of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

The Exhibition "500 Years of Western Painting" displays the western paintings collected by Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. The 60 exhibits selected are divided into five sections: Personality Discovery and Humanity Promotion, Resplendent Movement and Exquisite Nostalgia, Classical Rationality and Romantic Emotion, Real Mirror Image and Construction of Light and Colors, and Pure Concept and Diversification. Taking time as the main narrative line and genre as the development form, it shows the developmental process of Western art, from Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, realistic trend and Classicism, to Neoclassicism and Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, up to the modernism and post-modernism movements. Based on this, a 500-year history of Western art from the 16th to 20th centuries is outlined, leading the audience to explore the mysteries of those great times, artists and their works.

The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (TFAM) was founded by Daisaku Ikeda in 1983. The TFAM collection is comprised of some 30,000 Japanese, Eastern and Western artworks, ranging from paintings, prints, photography, sculptures, ceramics and lacquer ware to armor, swords and medallions of various periods and cultures. Especially noteworthy is its outstanding collection of Western oil paintings that spans a five-hundred-year period from the Renaissance to the Baroque and postmodernist eras, as well as its exceptional collection of photographic masterpieces.

Co-sponsored by the Tsinghua University Art Museum and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, and supported by Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Kouzan Fin-arts Company, this exhibition will be held at the Tsinghua University Art Museum from October 23rd to December 23rd, 2018.

Editors: Wilson Khor, John Olbrich, Guo Lili