{"product_id":"lawrence-smith-nihonga-traditional-japanese-painting-1900-1940-9780714114552","title":"Nihonga: Traditional Japanese Painting: 1900-1940","description":"This is the first occasion (1991) on which masterpieces of modern Nihonga (Traditional Japanese painting) have been shown collectively overseas, giving the Japanese institutions involved in the exhibition (The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo; the Yamatane Museum of Art; and The Japan Foundation) particular pleasure that the paintings were displayed in the Japanese galleries of the British Museum as part of the Japan Festival in 1991. When Japan was re-opened to outside influences in the mid-19th Century, a one-way influx of Western culture began into Japan. In response to this, Nihonga artists endeavoured to create modern painting of their own to rival the West, which was yet both deep-rooted in Japanese tradition whilst nevertheless absorbing the essential elements of Western and Chinese art. The 1991 Nihonga exhibition focused on the first forty years of the 20th Century, when many fine works were produced, meaning that it could be regarded as a golden age of Nihonga. Twenty-nine pieces, of which three were designated Important Cultural Properties, by eighteen artists representative of this period, were featured. The artists include: Shimomura Kanzan, Yokoyama Taikan and Hishida Shunso, the pioneers who established the guidelines of modern Nihonga; also Imamura Shiko, Kobayashi Kokei, Tsuchida Bakusen, Murakami Kagaku and Hayami Gyoshu who all followed in their footsteps, breaking further into new territory; Takeuchi Seiho: who led the reformation of the Kyoto School; and Tomioka Tessai, a great master of Nanga art. There are 48 pages of colour and b\u0026amp;w plates","brand":"British Museum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53899546263894,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/lawrence-smith-nihonga-traditional-japanese-painting-1900-1940-9780714114552","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}