Lecture: "Expressing the texture of 'milky skin'"
Lecturer: Hiroyuki Uchiro (Chief Curator, Pola Museum of Art)
Event Overview
Léonard Foujita (Tsuguharu Foujita, 1886-1968), known as a painter of the Ecole de Paris, was highly praised in the Paris art world in the 1920s for his unique technique of painting "milky skin." Many researchers have conducted research into the materials and techniques used in Foujita's works, but since his paintings have often been restored or varnished to protect the surface, it is impossible to gauge what kind of skin he was aiming to express.
In this lecture, we will reveal the secrets of Fujita's "milky skin" technique from the perspective of skin texture, based on the results of spectrofluorescence analysis of Nude with Dog on a Bed, which was conducted at the Pola Museum of Art in 2023 and was not coated with protective varnish.
Date and Time
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Time: 14:00-15:30 Capacity: 50 people
venue
Karuizawa Ando Museum of Art Salon Le Damier
Hiroyuki Uchiro Profile
- After dropping out of the doctoral program at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2001, he became a curator at the Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation (-2013). Since 2014, he has been a conservator and curator at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa Art Creation Foundation (-2018). He is currently the chief curator at the Pola Museum of Art. His specialties are the conservation and restoration of artworks, the history of modern and contemporary art, and research on Foujita Tsuguharu. His major exhibitions include "Leonard Foujita - My Paris, My Atelier" (2011), "Foujita - A Journey into Color" (2021), and "New Japanese Painting" (2023). He has co-authored "More About Foujita Tsuguharu - Life and Works" (2013), "Foujita Tsuguharu Art Collection" (2013), and "Cats and Foujita Tsuguharu" (2018).
Event Outline
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Time: 14:00-15:30 |
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| venue | Karuizawa Ando Museum of Art Salon Le Damier |
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