再興第106回院展 横浜展 Revival 106th Institution Exhibition Yokohama Exhibition

横浜駅東口の百貨店、そごうの6階にある「そごう美術館」で開催されている院展に行ってみた。

3年前、「春の院展」を観た。その時は小さな作品もあったが、今回は、大きい作品ばかりで驚いた。

院展とは何か調べてみた。岡倉天心が1890(明治31)年に設立した日本美術院が主催する日本画の展示会とのことで、かなり権威があるようだ。

そんなことも知らずに84点の日本画を楽しんだ。

日本画は、絵の具が自然素材なことと伝統的な描き方があると思っていたが、その特徴を考えたことはなかった。

調べてみたら、日本画は、写実的でないこと、陰影がなかったり、色調が濃厚でないなどの特徴がある。

確かにその通りだが、今回の展示作品の中には、陰影が明確な作品もあったりして、洋画との違いは徐々になくなっているように感じた。

いずれにしても、日本画を身近に見ることが出来るのは、私たち日本人だけだと思い、その恩恵に預かれるなら、出来るだけ観に行きたいと思った。

I went to the institute exhibition held at the "Sogo Museum of Art" on the 6th floor of Sogo, a department store at the east exit of Yokohama Station.

Three years ago, I saw the "Spring House Exhibition". There were some small works at that time, but this time I was surprised to see only the big ones.

I tried to find out what the institute exhibition was. It is an exhibition of Japanese paintings sponsored by the Nihon Bijutsuin, which was established by Tenshin Okakura in 1890 (Meiji 31), and seems to be quite authoritative.

I enjoyed 84 Japanese paintings without knowing that.

I thought that Japanese painting was a natural material and had a traditional way of drawing, but I had never considered its characteristics.

When I looked it up, Japanese paintings were characterized by being unrealistic, having no shadows, and not having a rich color tone.

That's true, but some of the works on display this time have clear shadows, and I felt that the difference from Western films was gradually disappearing.

In any case, I thought that only we Japanese could see Japanese paintings close to us, and if we could take advantage of them, I wanted to go see them as much as possible.